Kashmir, 16/8: At least seven Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel were killed while over two dozen were injured when a bus they were travelling in met with an accident near Chandanwari in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday. Reports said the vehicle, carrying 37 ITBP jawans and two J&K police…
New Delhi, 16/8: India was on Tuesday suspended by world governing body FIFA for “undue influence from third parties” and stripped the country of the right to host the Under-17 Women’s World Cup, scheduled for October. This is the first time the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been banned by FIFA in…
Washington DC, 16/8: US President Joe Biden believes that the India-US relationship is essential to global peace, stability and economic resilience, his top trade negotiator has said, noting that the two countries are now better placed to work on tough issuesPresident Biden believes that the relationship between our two great democracies is essential to global…
Gujarat, 15/8: All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said. A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai on January…
Pune, 15/8: Serum Institute of India’s (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said he expects an Omicron-specific vaccine in the country in six months, SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, produces AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine under the brand name Covishield. SII did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
New Delhi, 15/8: The Indian Tricolour was unfurled at the edge of space at an altitude of nearly 30 km by a BalloonSAT launched by an organisation promoting awareness about space sciences in the country. SpaceKidz, the Chennai-based organisation, shared a video on its social media platforms of the Indian Tricolour fluttering away…
Chilika, 15/8: INS Chilka, the Indian Navy’s premier training establishment, celebrated the 75th Anniversary of Independence Day with excitement and patriotic fervour as a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Cmde NP Pradeep, Naval Officer-in-Charge (Odisha) and Commanding Officer, INS Chilka laid a wreath at War Memorial, prior to review of the ceremonial…
Bangalore, 15/8: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said he is “proud to be committed” to the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) even as he defended his government’s Independence Day advertisement that sidelines Jawaharlal Nehru. “Someone said Bommai is slave of RSS. I say I’ve bowed down to that ideology, principle…
Mumbai, 15/8: Indian ride-hailing firm Ola Electric plans to start producing electric cars in India in 2024 with a range of up to 500 km (310 miles), Chief Executive Bhavish Aggarwal said on Monday. Ola, which is backed by Japan’s Softbank Group and currently makes e-scooters, did not give an investment figure or…
Minneapolis, 15/8: In a pride moment for Odisha , representing Odisha during the celebration of 75th Independence Day of India in Minneapolis, US (known as IndiaFest). The team performed famous sambalpuri folk dance based on Dalkhai song. This dance is a group dance accompanied with a song which adores ‘Goddess Dalkhai Devi – a physical…
