New Delhi, 12/5: The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed its displeasure over alleged hate speeches being made through religious programmes, saying they were spoiling the whole atmosphere and need to be sensitised to live peacefully. “What is the Dharma Sansad by the way,” a bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath asked senior…
Bhubaneswar, 12/5: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, today, approved in-principle the proposal of the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) to start the Mahanadi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Talcher, Angul. The Health and Family Welfare department will run the medical college and hospital, while MCL will provide the necessary funds. This will be a…
Lucknow, 12/5: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday rejected a petition seeking a directive to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open the closed rooms inside the Taj Mahal. The plea had sought to ascertain if there were Hindu idols and scriptures to validate the claim that the ‘Monument of…
Bhubaneswar, 12/5:Inaugurating a conference of Divisional Forest officers, Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has asked the forest officers to prepare a concrete roadmap for improving the health of our forests and enhancing the living standards of our forest fringe villagers. A two-day conference of DFOs has been organised at state convention centre in Lok Seva…
New Delhi, 13/5: Rains accompanied by squally winds continued in parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh on Thursday even as cyclonic storm Asani weakened into depression after making a landfall last night. After crossing the coast between Machilipatnam and Narsapur, Asani weakened into deep depression. According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), the deep depression…
Colombo, 12/5: Sri Lanka’s main Opposition SJB has split over the choice of the next prime minister as its leader Sajith Premadasa is unwilling to be the prime minister in the interim government under embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In a late-night televised address to the nation, the President on Wednesday refused to quit…
UP, 12/5:In an unprecedented move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday removed Director General of Police (DGP) Mukul Goel from his post for inefficiency and neglecting his work, an official statement said. Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar has been given the additional charge of the state’s…
New Delhi, 11/5: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said existing fare caps act as a protector for air travellers as well as airlines and indicated that doing away with the curbs could be looked at once the environment stabilises in terms of passenger traffic and jet fuel prices. Domestic air passenger traffic…
New Delhi, 11/5: The Ministry of Education on Wednesday issued guidelines to schools for combating heatwave, asking them to relax the uniform norms and modify timings. A torrid heatwave had sent the mercury soaring across large swathes of India with the temperature in Delhi rising to 46 degrees Celsius. The national capital also…
New Delhi, 11/5With the Opposition targeting the Centre after the Supreme Court put on hold the application of sedition law, the BJP on Wednesday said the order must be viewed in the context of the overall positive suggestion of the government that it wishes to examine the matter which has been “duly accepted” by the…
