Mumbai, 18/8: Ending decades of speculation and moves to start casinos, the Eknath Shinde-led BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP government on Friday scrapped the Maharashtra Casino (Control and Tax) Act, 1976. The Act could never be implemented because of strong opposition to casinos from various quarters. Fearing backlash, successive governments never attempted it in the last four decades…
Bhubaneswar, 18/8: In a major development, Prof. Sabita Pradhan has been appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Odia University, Satyabadi, Puri. Odisha Governor and Chancellor Prof. Ganeshi Lal appointed Prof. Pradhan as the first VC of Odia University for a period of two years. The notification said”In exercise of the powers conferred by…
New Delhi, 18/8: Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on Friday trained guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the ongoing session of the Delhi Assembly as they cited CAG reports on various Central government schemes including the construction of the Dwarka Expressway. The BJP MLAs staged a walkout when their notice for a discussion on an…
Poonch, 18/8: The 10-day Buddha Amarnath Yatra began on Friday with a batch of over 1,000 pilgrims leaving the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for Jammu and Kashmir’s mountainous Poonch district. Chants of ‘Bam Bam Bhole’, ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’ rent the air as the pilgrims’ convoy was flagged off by Additional…
Ranchi, 18/8: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren alleged that BJP and AJSU Party only love power and they do not have any concern for the people of the state. Addressing an election rally for JMM candidate Bebi Devi in Dumri in Giridih district, Soren on Thursday. Their only work is to divide and rule. They…
New Delhi, 17/8: Delhi metro has been in the news for all reasons metros are not famous for, with people dancing, making reels, using hair straighteners inside the train. By every passing day Delhi metro is providing drama even Ekta Kapoor serials are unable to provide. In another such episode, a video of two women…
New Delhi, 17/8: An IndiGo pilot died after collapsing near a boarding gate at the Nagpur airport on Thursday, officials said. The 40-year-old pilot who was going to operate the airline’s Nagpur-Pune flight collapsed around 12 noon while sitting in the security hold area, they said. Prima facie, he died due to ‘sudden cardiac arrest’,…
New Delhi, 17/8: Achieving a major milestone, ISRO on Thursday announced that the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Lander Module has successfully separated from the propulsion module that was propelling it all these days in space.
Puri, 17/8: Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena has reviewed the progress of construction works of the proposed Odia University at Satyabadi in Puri district. This has been informed by the Higher Education Department. The State Government has earmarked 25 acres of land for the construction of the Odia University, which will play a key…
Madurai, 17/8: Nearly five years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone, the Union Government on Thursday finally floated a tender for the construction of the much-delayed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai. The delay in the construction of the premier medical institute at Thoppur, 13.5 km from Madurai, despite…
