Chandigarh,5/8: Election strategist Prashant Kishor has resigned from the post of Principal Advisor to Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. According to a report in India Today, Kishor said- ‘I am not able to handle the responsibilities as your Principal Advisor. I request you to kindly relieve me of this responsibility.’ According to the report,…
Washington DC, 23/8: Huawei Technologies Co is building a collection of secret semiconductor-fabrication facilities across China to let the company skirt US sanctions, a Washington-based semiconductor association has warned, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The Chinese tech giant moved into chip production last year and is receiving an estimated $30 billion in state funding from…
Washington DC, 25/11: Twitter will tentatively launch the “Verified” feature next week, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Friday. Musk said that Gold check will be allocated to companies, grey checks to governments and blue to individuals (celebrity or not). He added that all verified accounts will be manually authenticated…
New Delhi, 31/12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on occasion of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on Thursday said, ‘forces outside India and inside are working to destabilise the country’, reported ANI. His statement comes amid the ongoing tensions between India and Canada after India withdrew its High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, and five of his…
Angul: Two female employees of a private school in Angul district of Odisha has brought sexual abuse allegations against a senior staff of the school. A complaint has been filed in the police complaint in this regard. As per reports, two female employees of a private school in Panchamahala area of Angul district have alleged…
Paris, 25/7: President Emmanuel Macron announced late Thursday that France would recognize the state of Palestine as part of “its historical commitment to a just and durable peace in the Middle East.” In a surprise statement on social platform X that followed months of hints and hesitations over possible French recognition of a Palestinian state,…
Karachi, 12/7: A leading Pakistani cleric has issued a “fatwa” against trading in cryptocurrencies, declaring it “haram” under Islamic law, in a ruling that comes as the government pushes to regulate and promote the virtual assets sector. The fatwa (religious ruling), issued by Islamic scholar Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, was made public by the Darul…
Sambalpur (Odisha), February 1, 2023: Continuing with its record-breaking spree, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has registered the highest ever despatch of 17.4 million tone (MT) coal to consumers in a month of January 2023. During the last month, the company also registered a record increase in despatch via road to 5.85 MT while merry-go-round facilitated…
Mumbai, 11/2: Senior politician Sharad Pawar on Sunday said the Election Commission’s decision to allot the NCP name and symbol to Ajit Pawar-led group was ‘surprising’ as the poll body has ‘snatched’ the party from the hands of those who founded it and gave it to others. Pawar said the programme and ideology are important…
Bhubaneswar: The low pressure area formed over the central Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a depression on Monday and several districts of Odisha are likely to receive light to moderate rainfall under its influence for three days from November 27.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the depression is likely to move northwestwards…
