Bhubaneswar,23/5 , :In anticipation of an above-normal southwest monsoon as forecasted for June to September 2025, the Government of Odisha in Housing & Urban Development department has issued a comprehensive Urban Flood and Waterlogging Management Action Plan for all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across the State. The initiative aims to safeguard public health, infrastructure, and…
Bengaluru,23/5: A nine-month-old baby boy tested positive for Covid-19 in Bengaluru, health department officials said on Friday. Harsh Gupta, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, said the baby tested positive via a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on May 22. “The patient is stable and currently admitted to Vani Vilas Hospital in Kalasipalya, Bengaluru,” he…
Nagpur, 23/5: India’s indigenously developed ‘Akashteer’ air defence system performed “exceedingly well” during ‘Operation Sindoor’, said Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Samir V Kamat, who expressed confidence that its success will draw international interest . India had deployed the indigenously developed and fully automated ‘Akashteer’ air defence control and reporting system, which emerged…
Bengaluru,23/5: A technical glitch observed at Whitefield (Kadugodi) metro station early on Friday morning led to the disruption of metro services from the station on Purple Line. Normalcy returned only at 9.55 am, when train connectivity from the last station on the Purple Line was restored According to the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL),…
New Delhi, 23/5: The US was in the United States, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, rejecting American President Donald Trump’s repeated claims about his administration brokering a “ceasefire” between India and Pakistan after four days of cross-border military offensives and counter-offensives from May 7 to 10. He also emphatically rejected the narrative that the…
New Delhi, 22/5: The India-Pakistan understanding on cessation of hostilities was arrived at following direct negotiations between the two sides, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington played a role in brokering the truce. Jaishankar also said that India will again hit terrorists in…
Bengaluru, 22/5: The state cabinet has decided that the Ramanagara district will be renamed as Bengaluru South from Thursday. Speaking to reporters during the customary post-cabinet briefing, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who is also the Bengaluru development minister, said: “The Ramanagara district will be renamed as Bengaluru South but the headquarters will remain…
Srinagar, 22/5: An army soldier was killed in an ongoing gunfight between security forces and terrorists in the hilly Chatroo area of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir early Thursday morning, officials said. According to initial reports, the encounter erupted after security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation based on intelligence inputs about terrorists’ movement in…
Washington DC, 22/5: Two Israeli Embassy aides were shot and killed outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington on Wednesday night, as an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee took place inside, government officials and others said. Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington…
New Delhi, 22/5: Strongly defending the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih that waqf is nothing but just charity in Islam. He said that charity is recognised in every religion, and it cannot be regarded as…
