Bhubaneswar, 20/6: In a major development, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday participated in the world famous Ratha Yatra in the pilgrim city of Puri along with lakhs of devotees from across the country and outside. The CM had darshan of the holy Trinity on the chariots and prayed for the well-being of…
Bangalore, 20/6: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will be in New Delhi on Wednesday to meet President Droupadi Murmu and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, among others in what he termed as a courtesy call. According to the Chief Minister’s tour programme, he will be leaving for Delhi on Wednesday morning, where he is likely to…
Islamabad, 20/6: Two teenage girls and a man were killed while a man’s nose and an ear were cut off “in the name of honour” in three separate incidents in Punjab province of Pakistan, police said on Tuesday. In the first incident in Sargodha district of Punjab, some 200 kilometres from Lahore, police said Naseer…
New Delhi, 20/6: The Centre on Tuesday appointed Swaminathan Janakiraman as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India for three years from the date of joining, according to an order seen by Reuters. Janakiraman, currently the managing director of State Bank of India, will succeed Mahesh Kumar Jain, whose tenure ends on June…
New Delhi, 20/6: Fresh from winning their maiden Super 1000 men’s doubles title, star Indian shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty achieved a career-best world number three in the latest BWF ranking issued on Tuesday. The Commonwealth Games gold medallists upstaged reigning world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia in straight games…
Singhbhum, 20/6:Five IEDs planted by members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) to target security personnel on the anti-Naxal operation were recovered from a forest in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said. In the course of combing operation, the security personnel detected the explosives in the forest near Tumbahaka village on Monday, Superintendent of Police, Ashutosh…
Washington DC, 19/6: The Joe Biden administration and the influential Indian-American community will roll out a red carpet welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will arrive in the United States on Wednesday, for his first-ever state visit to the country after he assumed office in 2014. Modi, who will be in the…
Bhubaneswar, 19/6: As many as 269 officers today joined the state government in various departments. While 160 Odisha Education Service officers joined as Block Education Officers and Headmasters, 90 Social Security Service Officers joined as Head Masters and Block education Officers. 19 Odisha Information Service Officers joined the government as sub-Divisional information &…
New Delhi, 19/6: Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha was on Monday appointed as the new head of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), succeeding Samanth Goel who completes four years at the helm of the external spy agency this the month-end. According to the notice issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the…
Subarnapur, 19/6: There is a touching issue of losing one’s life because of a case of forcing a pregnant woman to go to a private nursing home just to increase her earnings. District Head Quarter Maternal and Child Hospital is newly built in a beautiful environment with all the modern medical equipments. Instead of providing…
