New Delhi, 24/6: Former Drinking Water and Sanitation Secretary Parameswaran Iyer was on Friday appointed the new CEO of Niti Aayog, according to a government order. He had resigned from the post in July last year. Iyer, a 1981-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre and a well-known sanitation specialist, has been…
Rome/Bhubaneshwar: Odisha’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik took the stage at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome to share the transformational progress by the state on strengthening livelihoods and food security with a specific focus on marginalized communities and women. The Chief Minister is currently in Rome at the invitation of…
Bhubaneswar, 24/6:In a shocking piece of news, noted Odia film and Jatra actor Raimohan Parida committed suicide today, reports said. As per reports, body of the actor was recovered from his house at Prachi Vihar in Palasuni area of Bhubaneswar on Friday morning. While reports say the actor committed suicide, the reason behind his…
Mumbai, 24/6:With the Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray seeking cancellation of membership of several rebel MLAs, minister Eknath Shinde, who has spearheaded the revolt against the party, has claimed that the group led by him is the “real Shiv Sena”, and also hit back saying he and his supporters will…
New Delhi, 24/6:The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the decision to a give clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots. “We uphold the Magistrate court’s order. We find the appeal as devoid of merit,” the Supreme Court said. The Supreme Court delivered its verdict on a plea by Zakia Jafri…
New Delhi, 23/6:The government has ordered an investigation into a fire incident involving a Tata Motors electric vehicle, an official said on Thursday, after the automaker described it as an “isolated thermal incident”. A video on social media, which has gone viral, showed one of the company’s electric cars engulfed in flames. The…
Mumbai, 23/6: Amid a rebellion by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, party MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday said the Sena is ready to quit the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra if the group of rebel legislators camping in Assam returns to Mumbai in 24 hours and discusses the issue with Chief Minister Uddhav…
Assam, 23/6:Nearly 100 Trinamool Congress members and workers of Assam unit of TMC protesting outside Radisson Blu Hotel in Guwahati, where rebel Maharashtra MLAs, including Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde, are staying, have been detained. The workers were protesting against CM Himanta Biswa Sharma for ignoring the plight of citizens in the flood-hit state…
Bhubaneswar, 23/6: In a major development President Candidate of NDA, Draupadi Murmu left for New Delhi on Thursday morning at 9.10 am .She will file her nomination papers on June 24. According to reports, Murmu reached Bhubaneswar on Wednesday night from her native Rairangpur town in Mayurbhanj district.
Bengaluru, 23/6: Income Tax officials on Thursday raided two educational institutions in the city, suspected to have evaded taxes. Sources in the I-T Department said two institutions were on the I-T radar for quite some time. Separate teams raided various locations of the two prominent educational institutions from early in the morning, sources…
