Bhubaneswar: Shovana Mohanty assumed office as the newly-appointed Chairperson of the Odisha State Commission for Women on Monday.After assuming the role, Mohanty has promised to take a tough stance on issues affecting womenβs safety. She stated that no one is above the law and vowed to scrutinise all matters carefully.βWomenβs safety requires strict measures under…
Jagatsinghpur: A young man lost his life after being electrocuted while decorating his home for Khudurukuni Puja on Sunday in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. The deceased has been identified as Rudra Narayan Swain of Korakora village under Jankoti panchayat.According to reports, Rudra Narayan was installing decorative lights at his house when he came in contact with…
Bhubaneswar:Β The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of intensifying weather conditions across Odisha, with a low-pressure area expected to form over the northwest and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal (BoB) around August 13.This development comes amid reports of heavy to very heavy rainfall already lashing parts of the state, prompting orange and yellow alerts for…
New Delhi, 11/8: Scores of protesting Opposition MPs including Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Vadra were detained by the Delhi Police during the protest march to Election Commission over voter roll revision issue. We want clean, pure voter list,: said Rahul after being detained by police while taking out protest…
Cairo/Jerusalem,11/8: Israel’s military said it killed a Hamas cell leader posing as an Al Jazeera journalist in a Gaza airstrike on Sunday, but rights advocates said he had been targeted for his frontline reporting on the Gaza war and Israel’s claim lacked evidence. Anas Al Sharif, 28, was among a group of four Al Jazeera…
Gariaband, 11/8: A man in nondescript Madagaon village in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district is in seventh heaven after receiving calls from cricket legends Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, all thanks to a SIM card once used by India cricketer Rajat Patidar coming alive some time after it was reactivated by the service provider. Twenty-something Manish…
New Delhi, 11/8: Pakistan Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, not only boasted of his country’s nuclear arsenal during a visit to the United States but also threatened to destroy the dams to be built by India on the Indus. What may also raise the hackles in New Delhi is a statement issued by the…
Lucknow, 10/8: Itβs a case where both the father and the daughter acted professionally, unbothered by its possible fallout on familial bonds. Toufique Ahmed, a GRP constable in Bareilly, was dismissed from service by the then Inspector General of police Rakesh Singh after being found guilty of molestation in a departmental inquiry
Perth, 10/8: For all its claims of being a democracy that adheres to international law and the rules of war, Israelβs global reputation is in tatters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuβs latest plan for a full military takeover of Gaza, along with the expanding starvation crisis in the strip and Israelβs repressive measures in the West…
New Delhi, 10/8: The Karnataka chief electoral officer on Sunday issued a notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, asking him to share documents based on which he had alleged that a woman voted twice. The state’s top poll officer told Gandhi that the documents will help his office carry out a detailed inquiry. Gandhi had…
