New Delhi, 17/10: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda held a marathon meeting on Tuesday with party leaders from Rajasthan, including former chief minister Vasundhara Raje, as part of an exercise to finalise the names of its remaining candidates for the November 25 state Assembly polls. Besides Raje, Union ministers…
Bhubaneswar, 17/10: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated Odisha’s Javelin star, Kishore Kumar Jena with a cash award of Rs. 1.5 cr for his stellar performance in the recently concluded Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China, where he bagged a Silver medal bringing laurels to the state and nation and sealed his berth in the upcoming…
New Delhi, ,17/10: Alia Bhatt accepted the National Award for Best Actress for Gangubai Kathiawadi, dressed in her beautiful wedding saree. The actor, who arrived with her actor-husband Ranbir Kapoor, chose to wear the white saree she wore on the day of her wedding last year. Pictures and videos from the ceremony are now going…
New Delhi, 17/10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked scientists to aim to send the first Indian to the Moon by 2040 and set up an Indian space station by 2035, according to an official statement. He gave these directions during a meeting to review the preparedness of the Gaganyaan mission and the first…
New Delhi, 17/10: The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed judgement that it could not legally recognise same-sex marriages, after hearing a batch of pleas seeking legal sanction for the same. The apex court put the onus on the Parliament to frame the necessary laws. The court ruled that the right to enter union cannot be…
New Delhi, 17/10: India’s economic growth is estimated to slow to 6.3% in the current financial year from 7.2% recorded in the previous year, dragged by a sharp deceleration in farm sector growth, FICCI Economic Outlook Survey released on Monday showed. Agriculture sector growth is likely to slip to 2.7% in 2023-24 from 4%…
New Delhi, 17/10: The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Tuesday its judgement on a batch of pleas seeking legal sanction for same-sex marriages in India. A five-judge Constitution bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha had, on…
Bhubaneswar, 16/10: Directed by Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik Secretary to CM Shri VK Pandian today made field visit to different sites EKAMRA Project and reviewed the progress. It’s a dream project of Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik. The EKAMRA development project was conceived in 2019, and Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation…
Mizoram, 16/10: After announcing its intention to fight in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP on Monday said it will contest the Assembly election in Mizoram, entering another state where I.N.D.I.A parties will have a face-off. AAP is projecting its decision as a part of its plans to expand in the northeast,…
New Delhi, 16/10: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla accusing TMC’s Mahua Moitra of taking ‘bribes’ from a businessman to ask questions in Parliament, has also written to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to investigate the IP addresses of her log-in credentials for the House. In a letter…
