Bhubaneswar, 24/6:CM Naveen welcomed you all to the meeting of the State Level Natural Calamity Committee. Odisha is prone to multiple and recurring disasters. Especially, it is more prone to floods and cyclones. Last year, 24 districts were affected by floods & heavy rain. We managed it successfully. For exemplary preparedness and management of disasters,…
Kyiv, 24/6: Fragments from downed Russian missiles caused a fire injuring seven in Kyiv, while other Ukrainian cities, including Kharkiv, were also hit, officials said early on Saturday, as air alerts sounded nationwide. Serhiy Popko, head of the capital’s military administration, said falling fragments started a fire on the 16th, 17th and 18th floors of…
Singapore, 24/6: A 44-year-old chef from India has been sentenced to three months and four weeks’ jail for molesting two teenage girls in Singapore Sushil Kumar pleaded guilty to two charges of molesting the victims, reported TODAY newspaper on Friday. Just about three months after he first molested a teenage girl in…
Washington DC, 23/6: The US Supreme Court on Friday gave President Joe Biden’s administration the green light to move ahead with guidelines shifting immigration enforcement toward countering public safety threats, handing him a victory on the politically contentious issue in a legal battle with Texas and Louisiana. The justices ruled 8-1 in favor of the…
New Delhi, 23/6: Industries Minister M B Patil on Friday invited billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to invest in Karnataka, describing the state as “the ideal destination” for electric carmaker Tesla. Patil’s invitation came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Musk, the Tesla chief executive, earlier this week. Tesla will be in India “as soon…
Manipur, 23/6: A group of armed men, who sneaked from Yaingangpokpi (YKPI) in Manipur’s Imphal East district and moved towards the hills on Friday afternoon, fired from automatic weapons towards Urangpat and Gwaltabi villages, officials said. Security forces columns, which were immediately deployed in these “vacant” villages, responded cautiously to avoid any collateral damage. …
Darjeeling, 23/6: A BJP mandal office in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district was gutted in a fire around 1.45 am on Friday. The blaze in the party’s office in Siliguri’s Dabgram area was doused by local BJP supporters of the area with the help of a fire tender around 3 am, police said. BJP’s Siliguri…
Mumbai, ,23/6: Team India’s squads for West Indies Tests and ODI series have been announced. “” Veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara and senior pacer Umesh Yadav have been dropped from India’s Test squad for West Indies tour. Batter Yashasvi Jaiswal and seamer Mukesh Kumar got maiden call-ups in Test squad. Below is the ODI…
J&K, 23/6:The Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir police, in a joint operation on Friday, killed four terrorists in Kala Jungle of the Machhal sector in Kupwara. The police said the terrorists were attempting to enter India from the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK).
Bhopal, 23/6: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday staged a sit-in to protest the demolition of the houses of some tribal families at Rapura village in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh. A forest ranger was subsequently suspended by the authorities.I came to know that the houses of tribals and others were demolished with the…
