Chandigarh,22/2: Punjab Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal was told he is left with only NRI Affairs portfolio as the administrative reforms department he was holding for the past nearly 21 months did not exist, according to a government notification. No staff was given to the minister for the Administrative Reforms department and no meeting related…
Khurda: At least two people died after a car rammed into a truck near Pitapalli square under Info valley police limits on Saturday. One more person inside the car is critically injured. Reportedly all the three people inside the car belong to Chandanpur in Puri district. The speeding car rammed into a truck coming from…
Gajapati: The number of Red Sanders trees, which once made up a large and dense forest in Odisha’s Gajapati district, is severely declining. Historically, the district boasted the largest Red Sands forest in Asia.However, the current scenario is alarming, with the forest dwindling drastically. Paralakhemundi DFO S. Anand expressed concern over the depletion of red…
Ayodhya: Devotees continue to arrive at Ayodhya’s Ram Temple to offer prayers after visiting the Mahakumbh Mela. The visuals of the crowd have gone viral. Devotees arrived at Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj and Mahakumbh teerth kshetra in large numbers to take a holy dip and then visited Ayodhya. The Mahakumbh Mela will go on till…
Bhubaneswar: Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik lashed out at the Mohan Majhi government over Budget allocation. Speaking at the Budget session of the Majhi-led government in Odisha, he said ‘Double engine has turned into double sorrows’. Pointing at the Union Budget allocation to Odisha, the BJD Supremo said that in comparison to last year the…
Bhubaneswar: The 73rd State Police Athletics Championship 2025 was inaugurated on Saturday at the Reserve Police Ground in Buxi Bazaar, Cuttack, by R.P. Koche, Director of Intelligence. According to an official press release, a total of 797 athletes from 41 police teams across the state participated in the event, including 665 men and 132 women….
New Delhi, 22/2: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is examining the existing statutory provisions and the need for a new legal framework to regulate “harmful” content amid complaints of “obscenity and violence” being shown on digital platforms. In its reply to a parliamentary panel, the ministry said there is a growing concern in the society…
Angul: In a horrific incident, a man and his brother-in-law were critically injured in a firing in Angul district. Five supari killers were arrested in the firing. A man and his brother-in-law were brutally shot at by contract killers. The two have been admitted in the hospital in a critical condition. The incident happened in…
New Delhi, 22/2: Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday called out Air India airlines after a broken seat was allotted to him on his flight from Bhopal to Delhi. I had booked a ticket on Air India flight number AI436, I was allotted seat number 8C. I went and sat on the seat, the…
Jaipur, 22/2: A prisoner from Dausa’s Salawas jail on Friday night allegedly threatened to kill Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, police said. Police said that 29-year-old Rinku, serving life sentence in a rape case, called the Jaipur police control room and threatened to kill the chief minister.
