Hyderabad, 6/7: The toll in the Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant explosion in Sangareddy district rose to 41 on Sunday after the death of a person who was undergoing treatment in a hospital, officials said. The person, who had suffered burns in the June 30 explosion, succumbed at a hospital on Sunday, a senior police official…
Stockholm, 13/10: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given…
New Delhi, 10/1 (AO Bureau): Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Indian descent from Suriname, will be the chief guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations. After the British prime minister’s visit was canceled, the Indian government invited Santokh. He agrees to the invitation. He was the chief guest at the Diaspora Indian Day celebrations last week. Santokhi…
New Delhi, 6/1: Union Minister and senior BJP leader Smriti Irani on Wednesday said that the Congress tried to ‘harm’ the Prime Minister of India. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach during his Punjab visit, Irani asked why the Director General of Police (DGP) give the…
In the wake of the Jabalpur cruise tragedy in Madhya Pradesh that claimed 13 lives, the Odisha government on Sunday directed all boat operators to ensure adequate life-saving and fire safety equipment as per prescribed norms Bhubaneswar: In the wake of the Jabalpur cruise tragedy in Madhya Pradesh that claimed 13 lives, the Odisha government…
Chennai, 13/7: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had negotiated quite a few truce pacts in the post-J Jayalalithaa AIADMK, has stayed away from interfering or taking sides in the latest round of power struggle between Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam for the control of the Dravidian party. Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai, a…
New Delhi, 30/4: Terming life and liberty as ‘exceedingly important’, the Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the Enforcement Directorate on the timing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest ahead of the general elections in the excise policy-linked money laundering case. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, which continued hearing on the…
BHUBANESWAR, 4/4: The Chief Minister of Odisha, SRI Naveen Patnaik, has arrived in Japan with a high-level delegation to promote investment opportunities in Odisha. The delegation includes the Minister of Industries, MSME, and Energy, the Chief Secretary to the Government of Odisha, Principal Secretary, Industries Department, Principal Secretary, E&IT Department, Secretary to Hon’ble CM, Secretary,…
Nepal, 9/8: Nepal has stopped the entry of people coming from India into the country after four Indian tourists tested positive for Covid-19 and were sent back, amid a sharp surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the Himalayan nation. The four Indian tourists had entered Nepal via the Jhulaghat border point in…
New Delhi, 14/5: Former Bihar deputy Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Modi breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Monday. He had been diagnosed with cancer and had announced his unavailability last month.
