Kalahandi,22/8: Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, recently organized an orientation program for the first batch of girls hired as part of its Project Panchhi initiative. This is a unique project conceptualized directly under the vision of Vedanta Group Chairman, Mr. Anil Agarwal. It aims to employ 1000 girls from disadvantaged…
Baku, 22/8: Setting up a blockbuster clash with World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the FIDE World Cup 2023 on Monday, Indian Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa registered a memorable win over USA’s Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks of the action-packed semi-final encounter. Praggnanandhaa outclassed Caruana by winning the semi-final 3.5-2.5 in Baku, Azerbaijan. With the epoch-making triumph…
Indonesia, 22/8: Indonesia’s defence ministry and US planemaker Boeing have signed an agreement on the sale of 24 F-15EX fighter jets to help modernise the Southeast Asian country’s ageing fleet, the ministry and the company said. Officials from the ministry and a Boeing executive signed the memorandum of understanding at Boeing’s St Louis, Missouri, facility…
Chilika, 21/8: Four students were seriously injured when a wall collapsed in Mathapatna village under Banpur police station this evening. According to the reports, a private coaching was going on in Mathapatna village this evening when the roof top wall collapsed and fell on the students . Locals rescued the injured and admitted them…
Mumbai, 21/8: On a five-day official trip to Japan, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP stalwart Devendra Fadnavis, travelled on a Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto – driving home the point for faster transportation networks in India. The National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) is executing India’s first bullet train project between…
Telangana, 21/8: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday announced the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)’s list of candidates for all 119 seats for the upcoming Assembly polls in the state. KCR himself will be contesting from two seats—Gajwel and Kamareddy—while his son, K T Rama Rao will contest from Sircilla.
New Delhi, 21/8: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the national team’s squad for the upcoming Asia Cup, on Monday. Along with the regular faces like captain Rohit Sharma and star-batter Virat Kohli, the 18-member squad also included the likes of Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan. The upcoming tournament…
Mumbai, 21/8: Two persons were injured after a 19-year-old college student allegedly rammed a Mercedes car which he was driving into another car on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai, a police official said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday morning following which the accused, identified as Jay Bansode, was arrested, the official…
New Delhi, 21/8: The ISRO on Monday released images of Lunar far side area captured by the Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC). This camera that assists in locating a safe landing area — without boulders or deep trenches — during the descent is developed by Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre (SAC), a major research…
Uttarakhand, 20/8: Seven people were killed and 27 injured when a bus carrying pilgrims from Gujarat fell into a gorge in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand on Sunday. The bus with 35 people on board was returning from Gangotri when it met with the accident at Gangnani. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who is in Delhi,…
