Bhubaneswar, 29/8: As per the direction of Chief Minister Sh Naveen Patnaik, Secretary to CM (5T) Sh. V.K. Pandian today visited Jajpur district and interacted with the Mission Shakti Groups and Colleges students. Sh. Pandian discussed with the Mission Shakti groups on their activities and support required for transforming the SHGs into SMEs. He…
Angul, 29/8: The Rehabilitation and Periphery Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) me ineting for Jindal Steel & Power (JSP)’s Utkal B1 & B2 Coal Mines was held here today under the Chairmanship of Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Northern Division) Shri Dr Suresh Chandra Dalai, IAS. Angul’ Collector and District Magistrate Mr Siddharth Shankar Swain, IAS, Superintendent of…
New Delhi, 29/8: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday nominated former home minister and Congress member P Chidambaram to the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. Chidambaram’s nomination comes in the wake of the retirement of Congress member P Bhattacharya from Rajya Sabha. The Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs is currently looking into…
New Delhi, 29/8: The Union Cabinet has approved an additional subsidy of Rs 200 per LPG cylinder under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur announced on Tuesday after a meeting. subsidy for ujjwala beneficiaries now stands at rs 400 per lpg cylinder, thakur said. according to a report by cnbc-tv18, the…
Wicketkeeper-batter K L Rahul was on Tuesday ruled out of the first two matches of the upcoming Asia Cup due to a “niggle”, delaying his much-anticipated return to the Indian team. India head coach Rahul Dravid said the niggle is unrelated to the thigh injury that kept him out of action for months. He was…
Washington DC, 29/8: Senator Chuck Schumer plans to bring together several technology industry chiefs to discuss the ramifications of artificial intelligence, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who have been discussing whether to bring their rivalry to a cage match. Others attending the closed-door meeting in September are Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of…
Manipur, 29/8: Four militants belonging to different outfits were arrested in separate operations and arms and ammunition were seized from them, police said on Tuesdays. During search operations, police teams nabbed one insurgent each of the NSCN(IM) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and two overground workers of Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) (Lamyanba Khuman faction)…
Beijing, 29/8: China on Monday officially released the 2023 edition of its “standard map” incorporating the disputed areas including its claims over Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin region, Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea The 2023 edition of China’s standard map was officially released on Monday and launched on the website of the standard map…
New Delhi, 28/8: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a marriage can be performed by a couple in the advocates chamber by a simple ceremony of garlanding each other or putting a ring upon a finger of the other person. The top court set aside the Madras HC judgement which declared that a marriage…
Sriharikota, 28/8: After the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, ISRO on Monday announced that India’s first solar mission Aditya-L1 to study the Sun will be launched on September 2 at 11.50 am from Sriharikota spaceport. Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to provide remote observations of the solar corona and in-situ observations of the solar wind…
