ASSISTANT FISHERIES OFFICER( AFO), POLASARA, GANJAM NABBED BY ODISHA VIGILANCE WHILE TAKING BRIBE RS 8,000/- THROUGH DIGITAL MODE (PHONEPE) FROM A BENEFICIARY UNDER “ASSISTANCE TO NETWORK FISH SEED GROWERS SCHEME” TO RELEASE SUBSIDY AMOUNT.

Today i.e on 15.10.2025, a short while ago, Sri Suresh Kumar Behera, Asst. Fisheries Officer( AFO), Polasara, Dist-Ganjam has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and taking bribe from a beneficiary (Complainant) under Assistance to Network Fish Seed Growers scheme to release the subsidy amount approx Rs.1.38 Lakhs and money receipt for procurement of…

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Usha Chilkuri Vance, Indian-American wife of new US VP-elect

Washington, 6/11: In July, Indian-American lawyer Usha Chilukuri Vance burst into the national spotlight after her husband J D Vance was named by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as his running mate. With the Trump-Vance victory on Wednesday, Usha, 38, is set to become America’s Second Lady — the first Indian-American in that role. Usha…

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India to get remaining S-400 missile systems by 2026, says Russia

New Delhi, 2/6: Russia is committed to delivering the remaining units of the S-400 air defence system to India by 2025-2026, the country’s Deputy Chief of Mission in India, Roman Babushkin, said on Monday, highlighting that the system performed very efficiently” during the recent India-Pakistan tensions. Babushkin also hinted at expanding bilateral cooperation with India…

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Tigress strays into UP village, draws huge crowd of onlookers before being rescued

Pilibhit, 26/12: Unfazed by the presence of people gathered on nearby rooftops to watch the spectacle, a tiger sat on top of a wall yawning and basking in the winter sun on Tuesday, before being rescued by forest officials in a village outside the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve.Unlike usual man-animal encounters, this tiger – not older…

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GMDC -GVT Launches Mega Eye Care Campaign for 3,000 Students in Angul’s Chhendipada Block

Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC), through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm, the Gramin Vikas Trust (GVT), has launched a free eye check-up and spectacle distribution program for students in the project and peripheral areas of the Baitarani West Coal Block under Chhendipada block. The program was formally inaugurated on Friday at Chhendipada High School…

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Mining baron Janardhana Reddy announces new party, to contest 2023 Karnataka polls

Bangalore, 25/12: Just four months to Assembly polls in Karnataka, former BJP leader and controversial mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy on Sunday floated his own party — Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha — and announced that he will contest from the Gangavati constituency in assembly elections next year.     With this, he ended months of…

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Car goes up in flames mid-bridge, ambulance gutted in separate incidents

Cuttack: A major mishap was averted after a family miraculously escaped as their car caught fire following a rear-end collision with a truck on NH 16 in Odisha’s Cuttack distrcit today. The incident was reported from Nirgundi overbridge early in the morning at around 6 am, halting traffic movement for a long while. As per reports,…

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India strict on not recognizing Britain’s Covishield, expressed objection

New Delhi, 21/9: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (MEA S Jaishankar) has raised the issue of non-recognition of Covishield with Britain. The External Affairs Minister said that non-recognition of the Kovidshield vaccine is a discriminatory policy. Britain has assured to resolve it soon. The Foreign Secretary gave this information on Tuesday. He explained that Covishield’s…

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Excise policy case: AAP to be made accused in money laundering case, ED tells Delhi HC

New Delhi,14/5:  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday contended before the Delhi High Court that it will make the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) an accused in the money laundering case stemming out of the Delhi excise policy scam. The ED’s submission was made while opposing the bail plea of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish…

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