New Delhi, 2/2: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday rejected criticism over the slide of the Indian rupee, saying it has depreciated only against a strengthening US dollar but remained stable against all other currencies because of the strong macronomic foundation. In an interview with PTI, she said a 3 per cent depreciation in the…
Kannada, 21/5:Uday Chowta, former member of the Indian kabaddi team and the first kabaddi player from Dakshina Kannada district to receive the Ekalavya award, passed away in the wee hours on Saturday. In a sports career spanning two decades, Uday had played in over 100 national and 300 state level Kabaddi tournaments. Uday,…
Bhubaneswar, Hon’ble Chief Minister has always emphasized on the promotion of more remunerative crops in the State to enhance income of the farmers. Recently the State Cabinet has approved a new scheme titled, Crop Diversification Programme to promote the non- paddy and other high value crops cultivation in all 30 districts of the State especially in…
New Delhi, 22/9: A possible ban stares the Popular Front of India (PFI) in the face for its alleged involvement in terror activities after law-enforcement agencies Thursday conducted searches against it at 93 locations across 15 states in what officials described as the “largest-ever investigation process till date”. The PFI has been under the radar…
New Delhi, 29/8: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday nominated former home minister and Congress member P Chidambaram to the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. Chidambaram’s nomination comes in the wake of the retirement of Congress member P Bhattacharya from Rajya Sabha. The Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs is currently looking into…
Mandya (Karnataka), 25/8: Accusing the opposition BJP of attempting ‘Operation Kamala’ to destabilise the Siddaramaiah-led government in Karnataka, a ruling party MLA on Sunday claimed that efforts were on to entice Congress legislators, by offering Rs 100 crore..Congress MLA from Mandya Ravikumar Gowda (Ravi Ganiga) alleged that though attempts are on by the BJP to…
Bhubaneswar, 222/5 9AO Bureau): In a major development , People waiting for Covid test reports will now not have to worry about running to test centres to get the reports. They can get it from the Covid test website sitting at home. Odisha Government has today launched a Covid Test Report website to help people…
New Delhi, 7/8: A day after Chandrayaan-3 entered the lunar orbit, the ISRO on Sunday released a video of the Moon ‘as viewed by Chandrayaan-3’. The space agency put out the video with a caption ‘Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The Moon, as viewed by Chandrayaan-3 during Lunar Orbit Insertion’. The video showed the Moon in bluish green…
Kashmir ,31/12; There was a considerable decline in recruitment of locals into militancy in 2022 compared to the previous year while 186 militants, including 56 Pakistani nationals, were killed in various operations by the security forces this year in Jammu and Kashmir. “100 local youth got recruited into terrorist ranks this year which…
Bangalore, ,30/5: Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah said on Sunday that Dravidians were the original inhabitants of the country and he belonged to their sect. He was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Congress party office here. Commenting on Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s challenge, asking Siddaramaiah to specify whether…
