Jammu, 30/5: Twenty-one people were killed and 47 injured after a bus carrying pilgrims skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu district on Thursday, officials said. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha has expressed anguish at the loss of lives in the accident. The accident took place at…
Bhubaneswar, 20/5: Often the opposition target for his sartorial choices, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the biggest allegation he faced in his political career was that he owned 250 pairs of clothes. In an interview to PTI, Modi said the allegation was levelled by Congress leader and former Gujarat chief minister Amarsinh Chaudhary and…
Darjeeling, 23/6: A BJP mandal office in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district was gutted in a fire around 1.45 am on Friday. The blaze in the party’s office in Siliguri’s Dabgram area was doused by local BJP supporters of the area with the help of a fire tender around 3 am, police said. BJP’s Siliguri…
Leh, 19/8: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday rode a motorcycle from Leh to Pangong Lake in the Union Territory of Ladakh on the eve of his father Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary, a party spokesman said. The former Congress president is currently on a tour of Ladakh — his first since the region was…
Kabul, 15/10: A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, the US Geological Survey said, more than a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages, reported AP.
New Delhi, 24/11: Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra along with her husband and son joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by her brother Rahul Gandhi here for the first time on Thursday. On the second day of the yatra’s Madhya Pradesh leg, Rahul Gandhi started the foot march…
Bhubaneswar, 17 th September 2024: In continuation with the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam Campaign’, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, organised a mass plantation drive in its premises on 17 th September 2024. Around 100 members of the Institute participated in the drive with enthusiasm and vigour and planted about 200 saplings at different…
New Delhi, 19/4: The government on Wednesday approved the National Quantum Mission to nurture and scale up scientific and industrial research and development in quantum technology. The mission involves a cost to Rs 6,003.65 crore from 2023-24 to 2030-31. The National Quantum Mission (NQM), approved at a meeting of the Union Cabinet…
Sweden, 5/10: Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. The prize was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($915,072). The third of the prizes…
Cochi: In the latest development there has been another bomb threat to the Kerala CM’s office, his residence, the secretariat and the airport said reliable reports on Monday. According to reports, sniffer dogs and bomb detection squad was immediately called upon and, a thorough inspection is underway. However, as of now, no explosives have been found…
