Gangtok, 2/6: A team of 23 NDRF personnel were rushed to Chhaten in North Sikkim from here on Tuesday for rescue and search operations for six soldiers missing after a landslide hit an army camp, officials said. The NDRF team is equipped with satellite phones and essential emergency equipment, the official said. A helicopter carrying…
New Delhi, 4/3 (AO Bureau) : The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Thursday announced that the interest rates on Provident Fund deposits will remain unchanged at 8.5%. Rumors were doing the rounds about the lower interest on provident fund deposits due to the economic downfall and coronavirus pandemic. The decision was taken at the…
Mumbai, 16/1: Amidst the bitter war of words and a host of complex legal issues concerning the decision on a bunch of disqualification pleas involving Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday challenged Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Speaker Rahul Narwekar to face public debate allowing them to decide who commands party. The Shiv…
Thiruvananthapuram, 26/3: The BJP on Tuesday demanded the registration of a sedition case against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over his recent speeches on the Citizenship Amendment Act, alleging they aimed to instill insecurity in the Muslim community and create “extreme religious blindness among them. Senior BJP leader P K Krishnadas accused the Marxist veteran…
Mumbai, 17/8: TV’s popular comedy show ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ is all set to make the audience laugh. Makers have released many of its videos and promos so far. The promo released so far has revealed that Ajay Devgan and Akshay Kumar will have a grand entry in the premiere episode. In this, both the…
Mumbai, 5/3: The Adani group, whose mostly debt-fueled breakneck expansion saw gross debt doubling in four years, has almost $2 billion worth of foreign-currency bonds coming up for repayment in 2024, according to a presentation the conglomerate made to investors. The apples-to-airport conglomerate borrowed over $10 billion in foreign currency bonds between July 2015…
Tehran: At least 8 people were killed and 750 others injured in a huge explosion that occurred at a port in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan, the official news agency IRNA reported. Six people went missing in the incident that occurred at the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Xinhua news agency reported quoting IRNA. According to China’s…
Islamabad: At least 245 people, including 68 security personnel, were killed in a series of terrorist attacks and clashes across Pakistan in November, said Dawn, citing a report by the Islamabad-based think tank, the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), released on Sunday.The casualties included 127 terrorists and 50 civilians. November ranked as the…
New Delhi, 22/10: Cyclone ‘Tej’, brewing in the Arabian Sea, intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Sunday and is headed towards the Yemen-Oman coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) . The cyclonic storm is predicted to move northwestwards and cross the Yemen-Oman coasts between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman), close to the…
Imphal, 25/12: Gunfight broke out between two armed groups in Manipur’s Imphal East district on Wednesday morning, police said. Armed men fired from the hilltops of Kangpokpi district, targeting the Sinam Kom village. Armed ‘village volunteers’ deployed at the foothills retaliated, leading to the gunfight, they said.
