Padampur, 19/11: In a major development Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party today released their lists of star campaigners for the upcoming Padampur bypoll in Odisha. CM Naveen Patnaik will lead the star campaigners list of BJD whereas union minister Dharmendra Pradhan will lead the star campaigner list of BJP. Dharmendra…
Mumbai, 19/11: Ajay Devgn-starrer Drishyam 2 has raised Rs 15.38 crore on the first day of its release, the makers said on Saturday. Released on Friday, the Abhishek Pathak directorial has opened to positive response from critics and audiences at the domestic box office. Production house Panorama Studios shared the day one…
AP, 19/11: Amidst chanting of incantations by tribal priests, the spanking new Donyi Polo airport was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday. The airport located at Hollongi, near the capital city of Arunachal Pradesh will connect the northeastern state’s capital by air. It will link the border state with other Indian…
Mumbai, 18/11: Zomato said on Friday its co-founder, Mohit Gupta, resigned after about five years at the food aggregator. Gupta is credited with building Zomato’s food delivery operations from scratch and was the segment’s chief executive before being elevated to co-founder in May 2020. Gupta said in a letter to the company…
New Delhi, 18/11: Star paddler Manika Batra on Friday became the first Indian woman to reach the semifinals of the Asian Cup Table Tennis tournament with a 4-3 win over higher-ranked Chen Szu-Yu of Chinese Taipei here. World number 44 Manika beat Chen, ranked 23rd in the ITTF chart, 6-11 11-6 11-5 11-7 8-11…
Bhubaneswar, 18/11: Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has announced that the screening of the film Daman, made on the malaria prevention program of the Odisha government, is completely tax free. The film is about the new example of humanity a young doctor has set in providing health care in the remote areas of Malkangiri…
New Delhi, 18/11: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday defended Rahul Gandhi, saying that he did not target Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar but only highlighted a “historical fact’. Addressing a press conference at Shegaon in Buldhana district of Maharashtra where the Bharat Jodo Yatra has reached, he also said that although the Uddhav…
Hyderabad, 17/11: Vikram-S, the country’s first privately built rocket by a Hyderabad-based start-up, soared into the sky from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) spaceport in Sriharikota, in a giant leap for the fledgling private space sector in India. Vikram-S, named after the founder of the country’s space program, Dr Vikram Sarabhai, blasted…
New Delhi, 18/11: The Union government on Thursday extended by one year the tenure of ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra, according to an official order. The order issued by the Personnel Ministry said the 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer has been given the extension till November 18, 2023. Mishra, 62, was…
Jaipur, 17/11: Congress is in no mood to change gears to decide the leadership question in Rajasthan immediately even as miffed senior leader Ajay Maken refused to take back his resignation as party in-charge in the state. Sources said the party central leadership is in no hurry to effect a leadership change as…
