Ranchi, 11/11: A bill was passed in the Jharkhand assembly on Friday to raise the total reservation offered to different categories to 77 per cent. In a special session, the assembly passed an amendment to the Jharkhand Reservation of Vacancies in Posts and Services Act, 2001, raising the reservations for STs, SCs, EBCs,…
Magdeburg: At least two people were killed and dozens more injured in a suspected attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday evening, CNN reported.The attack occurred when a car deliberately rammed into a crowd of people at the market, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries. According to local public broadcaster MDR, Saxony-Anhalt…
Bhubaneswar: In a major boost to emergency healthcare service in the state, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi flagged off 250 new ambulances for the benefit of patients The new ambulances were launched by the CM during a special event held at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar in the second phase of the emergency healthcare expansion…
Baripada: In a heart-wrenching incident, a young child died after getting entangled in a makeshift swing at Jagannathi village under Udala police station in Mayurbhanj district.The deceased has been identified as Satya Murmu, son of Durga Murmu of Jagannathi village.According to reports, the boy was playing on a swing made from a saree tied to…
Bhubaneswar: As the Kalabaisakhi comes to an end, the temperature is expected to rise. The mercury has already soared high with just the beginning of summer season in Odisha. The Kalabaisakhi that came in with a hope of respite from the summer instead tormented people and destroyed crops. The scorching heat is expected to grill people…
New Delhi, 19/1: Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Thursday said she was dragged by a car for 10-15 metres outside AIIMS when her hand got stuck in the vehicle’s window and its inebriated driver drove on. The incident happened in the early hours of the day when the DCW chief was…
New Delhi, 28/11: Messaging platform WhatsApp on Monday denied reports that data and phone numbers of several WhatsApp users was leaked and being sold on the dark web. Last weekend, news platform CyberNews had allegedly found a trove of a digital dataset of around 500 million WhatsApp users ‘on sale’ with a different…
Puri: The Srimandir rituals are regarded very sacred and the particular rituals are to be exclusively performed by particular servitors. During the ‘Mailam’ ritual today, Palua servitors mistakenly touched the Lord. As a result a Chuan Mahasnan was held on Tuesday. According to information, early in the morning when the rituals were being performed, Palua servitors…
Kolkata, 11/5: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm — Mocha — overnight and it is likely to make landfall between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Sittwe in Myanmar, officials said on Thursday morning. The cyclone, named Mocha by Yemen — pronounced as ‘Mokha’, is likely to bring heavy…
Udaipur, 29/6: Two men with a cleaver murdered a tailor here and posted videos online that said they are avenging an insult to Islam, triggering stray cases of violence in the Rajasthan city, a part of which was placed under curfew. Prohibitory orders banning people from assembling were clamped across the state for…
