Cuttack, 25/3: Today is the birth anniversary of one of the most revered women leaders of the state Shailabala Das. I pay my heartiest tributes to her on this occasion. In an era, when women were in a deeply marginalized condition, Shailabal Das, the daughter of Utkal Gourav Madhusudan Das, was in the forefront of…
Mississippi, 25/4: At least 19 people were killed when a tornado and severe storms swept through the US state of Mississippi late Friday, authorities told ABC News. Search and rescue operations were underway in Sharkey and Humphreys counties, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of state capital Jackson, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said, according…
New Delhi, 25/4: Olympian shooter Manu Bhaker clinched the 25m pistol bronze medal in the ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup to take India’s medal tally to seven, including a gold, here on Saturday. Bhaker, the multiple World Cup medal winner, had shot 290 in the precision round on Friday and entered day 2 of…
Kashmir, 25/3: Tightening the noose around its employees further, Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday issued a circular barring its staff from criticising the government, its actions and policies on social media or in the public. According to a set of rules and guidelines, a government employee can neither criticise nor discuss any…
New Delhi, 25/3:”My name is not savarkar, it is gandhi and gandhi never offers apology,” said a defiant rahul gandhi after a journalist asked him if it would be easier had rahul paid heed to bjp’s demands for an apology over his remarks in uk. Rahul Gandhi while addressing a press conference at AICC headquarters…
Bangalore, 25/3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 13.71-km Whitefield (Kadugodi)-KR Pura metro line in eastern Bengaluru on Saturday. Modi reached the terminal station — Whitefield (Kadugodi) — around 1 pm and walked around the premises. He then bought a ticket and boarded a train to the Sadaramangala (Satya Sai Hospital) metro station,…
Mumbai, 25/3: Reliance Industries Ltd has appointed Srikanth Venkatachari as chief financial officer effective June 1, according a late evening release by the company. He takes over from Alok Agarwal, who has been CFO since 2005, and will now assume the role of senior advisor to Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Venkatachari…
Ahmedabad, 25/3: Gujarat police are conducting raids across 17 jails in the state to check if any illegal activities are taking place there and also to ensure that the inmates are getting facilities they are entitled to as per the law, a top official said. As many as 1,700 police personnel, including officers,…
Chandigarh, 24/3: Papalpreet Singh, the brain behind radical preacher and pro-Khalistan supporter Amritpal Singh, has been served a notice by the Income Tax department to explain the source of Rs 4.48 lakh credited into his account, officials said here on Friday. Papalpreet, who has been on the run along with Amritpal since the…
Kyiv, 24/3: Russian long-range strikes killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several areas of Ukraine on Friday, Ukraine’s presidential office said, as a senior Moscow official warned that the Kremlin’s forces were prepared for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the coming weeks. Five people died in Kostiantynivka, a town in eastern…
