Nuapada, 8/11:Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated the distribution of smart health cards under the BSKY in Nuapada district. About 1.73 lakh people in the district will get the facility. Ten districts of the state, including Nuapadha, participated in the program. On the occasion, the Chief Minister inaugurated various projects worth Rs 480 crore in…
Ahmedabad, 17/12: Gujarat MoS Cooperative, Salt industry, Printing and Small Scale Industry Jagdish Vishwakarma on Saturday said that people who voted against the BJP in Vadgam constituency in the state Assembly polls “have betrayed the nation”. Congress leader Jignesh Mevani got elected from Vadgam for the second consecutive time. Addressing people at his native…
Washington, 28/7: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said incumbent United States President Joe Biden was forced to exit the presidential race, describing it a “coup” by the Democratic Party. The former president’s remarks came during an election rally in Minnesota on Saturday. “This was really a coup of and by the Democrats. This was…
New Delhi, 26/10: Media groups Sony and Zee have voluntarily agreed to sell three Hindi channels — Big Magic, Zee Action and Zee Classic — to address possible anti-competition concerns arising out of their proposed mega-merger deal. They submitted their proposal to the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which cleared the deal subject…
Bengaluru, 23/7: Over a month after it set aside the social and educational survey (caste census) conducted by the Kantharaj Commission in 2015, the Karnataka government has decided to conduct a fresh social and educational survey for 15 days from September 22 to October 7. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah convened a top-level meeting on Wednesday, where…
New Delhi, 1/2 (AO Bureau): In a major development for India, the Union budget will be presented today. Amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, all eyes will be on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who will present the country’s first paperless budget. Ahead of the budget presentation, the Union Cabinet will hold a meeting at 10:15 am on…
Islamabad: Pakistan Monday conducted a successful training launch of the ‘Fatah series’ surface-to-surface missile with a range of 120 kilometres amid heightened tensions with India following the Pahalgam terror attack. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the army, said in a statement that a “Fatah Series” was tested as a part of the…
Islamabad, 13/8: Pakistan’s cricketer Kamran Akmal is dominated on social media, the reason is his English. Actually, Kamran Akmal congratulated Pakistan’s Independence Day on 14 August. This Pakistani player congratulated independence in English and for this reason he is being mocked on social media. He wrote Happy Independence Day on his Twitter, but did not…
Mumbai, 27/12: A court here on Friday granted bail to Aditya Pandit, the jailed boyfriend of an Air India pilot who allegedly committed suicide last month. Pilot Srishti Tuli (25), who lived in a rented flat in the ‘Kanakia Rain Forest’ building in Marol area, was found dead in the early hours of November 25.
Chennai: Pongal, the harvest festival celebrated by Tamils across the globe, came a week early this year for the people of Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, which scripted history on Saturday by organising the first-ever Jallikattu, a bull taming sport, outside Tamilnadu. The event, which was organised by Eastern Province Governor Senthil Tondaman and the Tourism…
