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Odisha Subhadra Yojana review meeting tomorrow: Focus on connecting excluded beneficiaries

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Subhadra Yojana review meeting will be held tomorrow. In the meeting discussions will be held to connect excluded beneficiaries. Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida informed about this on Tuesday.As per reports, the Women and Child Welfare Department had asked for information from three departments. Information was asked from the Transport, Food Supplies and Health…

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Monsoon hits Himachal Pradesh: 370 dead, 615 roads blocked

Shimla: The devastating monsoon in Himachal Pradesh has claimed 370 lives since June 20, including 205 deaths in rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, drowning, lightning strikes, and other weather-triggered accidents, and 165 fatalities in road accidents, the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) said on Tuesday.According to the SDMA’s cumulative loss report, the state has…

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Sans doctor and electricity, peon attends to patient under mobile torchlight in Koraput Govt hospital

Koraput: Amid tall claims of boosting the State healthcare infrastructure in remote areas, a critically hurt patient was treated under cell phone light by a peon in the absence of a doctor at a government hospital in Odisha’s Koraput district. The incident, which took place at Lamataput Community health Centre in Mahakuma late on Monday night, has sparked…

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N Bhaskar Rao resigns from BJD, forms Biju Swabhiman Mancha

Bhubaneswar: In a major political development, former Rajya Sabha MP and senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader N Bhaskar Rao today resigned from the party. Along with him, former minister Lal Bihari Himirika and several local leaders and workers of Rayagada district also quit the party’s primary membership.Rao has announced the formation of a new…

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Karnataka tech minister Priyank Kharge writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, makes fresh bid for EVM audit

Bengaluru, 9/9: Karnataka’s IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge has made a fresh proposal to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on having the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) scrutinised under a court-monitored audit through an ‘ethical hackathon’ hosted by Karnataka.   Priyank’s proposal comes just days after the Congress government decided to bring back ballot papers for…

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Nitish Kumar no longer main opponent…This election will write a new script’: RJD’s Manoj K Jha

Patna, 9/9: The two-week-long ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ concluded on September 1 with the I.N.D.I.A. bloc all set to enter another phase of campaigning ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. The RJD and its allies now plan to reach out to districts that the ‘yatra’ led by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav could not cover. RJD…

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