New Delhi: Nitin Nabin took charge as the BJP National President during the organisational event (Sangathan Parv) on Tuesday at the party headquarters in New Delhi, becoming the youngest leader to hold the post.Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Nabin on his appointment.Outgoing BJP national chief J.P. Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Transport…
Bhubaneswar: A massive fire broke out late last night at No. 1 Haat’s Plastic Market, gutting more than 40 shops and reducing property worth lakhs of rupees to ashes.The blaze, reported at 1:38 am via the 112 control room, spread rapidly through the densely packed market, causing extensive damage before it was brought under control.Fire services…
Monday.The two-day festival, organised by the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, theuniversity's faculty of agriculture, to coincide with the International Flower Day onJanuary 19, was inaugurated by Ms. Saswati Das, Vice-President of SOA.The festival's objective was to create awareness among the people aboutfloriculture and encourage farmers, flower traders, students and housewives totake to flower cultivation, Ms….
New Delhi, 20/1:Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal announced her retirement from competitive badminton, saying her body can not longer cope with the physical demands of the fast-paced sports. Nehwal has been out of action from the last two years due to a chronic knee condition and last played at the top level at the Singapore Open…
Chennai, 20/1: For the third year in a row, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi on Tuesday walked out of the Legislative Assembly without reading the customary address prepared by the State government on the first day of the sessions. The Governor cited not playing the national anthem along with the Tamil Thai Vaazthu (State…
New Delhi, 19/1: With tensions between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh over Yemen escalating, India and the United Arab Emirates signed a Letter of Intent for a strategic defence partnership agreement on Monday, just four months after a similar pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan raised hackles in New Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted UAE President…
New Delhi, 19/1: Nitin Nabin is set to become the BJP national president as he emerged as the sole candidate for the top party post, senior BJP leader and returning officer K Laxman announced on Monday. In a statement, he said 37 sets of nomination papers were filed in favour of Nabin as the BJP…
Kolkatta, 19/1: A court in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Monday granted bail to Satadru Dutta, the organiser of the botched-up Messi event in the city last month.Dutta was arrested on December 13 last year over alleged mismanagement in the Salt Lake stadium event on that day
Kabul, 19/1:Several people were killed in a blast in Afghan capital Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw area, the Taliban interior ministry said on Monday. Acording to preliminary reports, a number of people were killed and injured,” Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told Reuters, adding that details would be released later.
Washington DC, 19/1:President Donald Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere he no longer felt an “obligation to think purely of peace” after the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize, as he repeated his demand for control of Greenland in a letter seen by Reuters. The Norwegian prime minister’s…
