Bhubaneswar,19/8: As many as 412 persons joined state power infrastructure company ‘Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd’ today. 161 of them are Electrical Engineers, 54 Office Assistants, and 197 Electrical Technicians. An orientation programme was organized at Convention Centre in Lok Seva Bhawan. Addressing the new recruits, Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik said that Quality and…
Manipur, 19/8: Senior CPI(M) leader Jitendra Chaudhury, who is currently visiting strife-torn Manipur as member of a party delegation, on Saturday demanded the removal of Chief Minister N Biren Singh for “failing to restore normalcy”. Chaudhury, the Tripura unit’s general secretary and part of the CPI(M) delegation that is on a three-day visit to the…
New Delhi, 19/8: Indian women’s hockey legend Rani Rampal has claimed that there are many unfit players in the team picked for the Asian Games, and asserted that she is in no mood to retire. As per the provisional squad issued by Hockey India, Rani is not part of the Hangzhou-bound team despite making a…
Satyabadi, 19/8: In a sad piece of news, 5T Secretary VK Pandian, Puri Collector Samarth Verma allegedly attacked with ink while attending an event at UGS College at Satyabadi in Puri district .The police detained the person involved in the act .
Thiruvananthapuram, 19/8: In what looks like a tit for tat move, Congress MLA in Kerala Mathew Kuzhalnadan, who raised financial allegations against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter, is now facing probes by multiple state government agencies over allegations On Monday a revenue department team conducted verifications at the premises of his house…
Dispur, 19/8: Senior BJP leader and former union minister Rajen Gohain on Friday resigned as the chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation in protest against the delimitation of the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency and claimed it will be impossible for the party to win from that seat in the future. Gohain, who had…
New York, 19/8: Two men who have accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children are able to resume their lawsuits against companies owned by the singer, who died in 2009, a California appeals court ruled Friday. The men, Wade Robson, 40, and James Safechuck, 45, have alleged that Jackson sexually abused them for…
Keonjhar, 18/8: In a sad piece of news, the mother of martyred Jawan died days after she lost her son in naxal attack in Anandapur area of Odisha’s Keonjhar district.She was critically illafter her son CRPF Jawan Sushant Khuntia martyred in a naxal attack in Jharkhand on August 11.
UP, 18/8: Newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on Friday said that senior Congress leader and former national president of the party Rahul Gandhi would contest from Amethi Lok Sabha seat in the next Parliamentary elections scheduled for 2024. Speaking to reporters at Varanasi, his home town, Rai also said that Congress workers would…
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…
