Uttarakhand, 13/4: A staff member at a local de-addiction centre allegedly tortured a 25-year-old inmate to death, officials said on Thursday. Siddharth, the victim, was allegedly kept hungry, not given water and beaten with a baton by the accused staff member till he fainted on Monday night. He was found dead on…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police on Tuesday carried out extensive raids across the Eastern Range, targeting organised cattle smuggling operations in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, and Bhadrak districts. The multi-district operation resulted in the seizure of cash worth Rs 50 lakh, along with a significant quantity of gold and silver, and several vehicles used for illegal cattle transport.Eastern Range…
Nigeria, 1/3: Nigeria’s ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu, was declared president-elect of Africa’s most populous nation in the early hours of Wednesday after a weekend election that the main opposition parties have disputed. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, will take over leadership of a country grappling with Islamist insurgencies in the…
Washington DC, 9/12: Twitter Inc will roll out new controls as soon as next week to let companies prevent their ads from appearing above or below tweets containing certain keywords, the social media platform told advertisers in an email on Thursday. The new controls are part of Twitter’s effort to reassure and lure back advertisers…
Durg, 10/4: At least 12 people were killed and 14 injured — all employees of a private firm — as a bus they were on fell into a ‘murum’ soil mine pit in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district on Tuesday night, officials said. The incident took place around 8.30 pm near Khapri village under Kumhari Police Station…
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has extended his heartiest congratulations to two brilliant girl students Tina Rath and Alisha Biswal for achieving a rare national-level distinction by scoring a perfect 500 out of 500 marks in the CBSE Class X board examinations. In a post shared on his official X handle, Chief Minister Majhi…
Jajpur: Tension gripped the Panikoili area on Saturday after locals staged a protest outside a private college hostel following the death of a Class XII student. The incident occurred at Chhotraypur, under the jurisdiction of Jajpur police. The deceased, a resident of Kendutipi village in Kumbhiragadia panchayat of Danagadi block, was found hanging in the hostel…
Rayagada, Sept 8: A large-scale environmental awareness campaign and tree plantation drive was organised at Gurumaguda village here on Monday to mark the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. The programme was jointly organised by the Regional Office of the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB), Rayagada, and Rayagada Municipality with an…
New Delhi, 9/3 (AO Bureau): Jyotiraditya Scindia, MP from Congress to BJP, has given his response to former Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s backbencher comment. Talking to the media today, Scindia said that Rahul Gandhi should worry about himself, leave my worry. Yesterday, Rahul Gandhi had said that Scindia would never become the Chief Minister by…
Kolkata, 13/6:The West Bengal assembly on Monday passed a bill that sought to replace Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the chancellor of all state-run universities, amid opposition by the BJP legislators. State education minister Bratya Basu, after introducing The West Bengal University Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in the House,…
