New Delhi, 29/6: Courts in the country are groaning under an unprecedented backlog of over 5.8 crore pending cases, even as a severe shortage of judges continues to undermine the justice delivery system, raising serious concerns about access to timely justice for ordinary citizens.With just about 22 judges per million population — far below the…
Bhubaneswar: In the wake of the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, the Indian Armed Forces launched ‘Operation Sindoor’, integrating advanced technologies to enhance tactical operations. Among the standout contributors was Odisha-based drone startup IG Drones, which provided critical support to the military during the mission. Founded in 2018 by five students from Veer Surendra Sai…
Patna, 15/4: Former Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Monday announced that his Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party was no longer with the BJP-led NDA, which has chosen to back his estranged nephew Chirag Paswan. Paras, whose party came into being in 2021 as a result of the split he engineered in the Lok Janshakti Party,…
Bhubaneswar, 6/6: CM Naveen Patnaik reaches Raj Bhavan to tender his resignation as CM.His close confidant & former IAS officer VK Pandian has not accompanied Patnaik to meet governor.
Tehran, 19/6: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Thursday said he had authorised a memorandum of understanding signed by the Iranian and US presidents, despite holding a different view. In his first statement after the signing of the deal between United States and Iran, he also claimed that President Donald Trump had “used all kinds…
New Delhi, 18/10: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was questioned by the CBI in connection with the alleged scam in Delhi excise policy even as the former dubbed the allegations against him as “fake” and claimed the agency’s action was because the BJP was “scared” of the AAP’s “popularity” in poll-bound Gujarat. After the…
New Delhi, 20/4: Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited, (HDFC Ltd), has agreed to sell 10 per cent of its stake in its wholly-owned subsidiary HDFC Capital Advisors Ltd (HCAL), to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for Rs 184 crore. The divestment is likely to take effect by April 30, 2022, HDFC…
Bhubaneswar, 15/12: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik, during his interaction with Niti Aayog vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar and his team, today said that Odisha has made substantial improvement in the last two decades both in macroeconomic indicators and also in socio-economic indicators. Welcoming Dr. Rajiv Kumar and his team to Odisha, the Chief…
New Delhi, 6/6: A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed an application for interim bail on medical grounds moved by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja directed the Tihar jail authorities to take care of Kejriwal’s medical needs in judicial custody.
New Delhi, 8/4 (AO Bureau): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took the second dose of the corona vaccine at the Delhi AIIMS. He had previously taken the first dose on March 1. That’s what he tweeted today. He also appealed to the public to register and get vaccinated on the Co-Win app. This is because…
