New Delhi, 6/3: The claims that the Indian Navy provided intelligence to the US on an Iranian frigate that was sunk by a submarine on March 4 are “baseless and preposterous,” top government sources said. The sources reportedly said that there is no question of providing any input to the US, which has been targeting…
Angul, May 7: A sex racket operating from a house in Angul town was busted after police conducted a raid based on intelligence inputs. The illegal operation was allegedly being run by an elderly man from his residence in Saubhagya nagar area. During the raid, police detained several persons, rescued two women involved in prostitution…
New Delhi: Amid rising bird flu cases in the country, the Union Government has made registration of poultry farms mandatory and urged the need for increasing surveillance to curb avian influenza. A high-level meeting in New Delhi, chaired by Alka Upadhyaya, Secretary at the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) under the Ministry of…
New Delhi, 6/6: PM Modi on Friday said he had received a call from Canadian PM Mark Carney over telephone who invited him to the G7 Summit later this month. Congress had earlier criticised the Centre that India not being invited at the G7 meeting in Canada is “yet another big diplomatic bungle” after the…
Bhubaneswar, Nov. 17: With Delhi facing an environmental emergency and possible lockdown, the limelight has shifted to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which has been on the rise mainly due to air pollution, experts said here on Wednesday. Clean air is the crying need almost everywhere as increasing number of COPD patients struggled to breathe…
New Delhi, 29/7 (AO Bureau):There was a discussion over tea between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday. This meeting is discussed everywhere in the political corridors. It is being said that both the leaders discussed the strategy to challenge the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections to…
Ahmedabad: Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Jay Shah on Tuesday hailed the Harmanpreet Kaur-led Indian Women’s team for “a phenomenal win” against recently-crowned T20 World Cup-winner New Zealand in a three-match ODI series at the Narendra Modi Stadium here. India rode on a superb century by opener Smriti Mandhana and an unbeaten half-century…
Manipur, 10/1: Manipur government on Wednesday denied permission to use a ground in Imphal for Rahul Gandhi’s “Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra” on January 14, citing law and order issues. Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee president and senior Congress MLA K Meghachandra , who along with a team of party leaders, met Chief Minister N Biren Singh…
Mumbai, 18/10:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a hefty penalty of Rs 1 crore on the country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) for non-compliance of regulatory directions. RBI said that the penalty action has been taken by SBI for non-compliance of the Reserve Bank of India (Frauds Classification and Reporting by…
Parts of Odisha, especially Kandhamal, experience dense fog and low temperatures. Daringbadi records 11 degrees Celsius. Fog persists from 9 PM to 9 AM, disrupting daily life.
