Putkel, 15/1: Two jawans were injured on Thursday following a pressure IED blast planted by Naxalites near Putkel village under Basaguda police station area, ANI reported, quoting Bijapur Police. The injured jawans have been evacuated, and are out of danger, police added.
Bangalore, 28/9: In a major fraud, financial assistance worth Rs 442 crore went to four lakh ‘ineligible’ and ‘dead’ farmers in Karnataka under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), a flagship scheme of the ruling BJP government. Authorities are going after these farmers to recover the money they received. Under PM-KISAN,…
Bahanaga: A youth was killed, and another sustained critical injuries after being hit by a speeding cattle-laden vehicle while chasing it on National Highway 16 near Barikpur under Soro police limits in Balasore district Tuesday. The vehicle was later apprehended by the police, while the driver fled the spot. Members of a cow protection group and…
New Delhi,13/2 (AO Bureau): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has described the Union Budget as having a role to make the country ‘self-reliant’. Sitharaman, responding to the discussion on the budget in the Lok Sabha, said that even the challenging circumstances of the coronavirus epidemic could not deter the government from taking reform measures. She also…
Punjab, 19/7 (AO Bureau):All is not well in Punjab Congress even after Navjot Singh Sidhu was appointed as Punjab State President by the high command. So far, no statement has come out from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh regarding this appointment, but now the atmosphere has become more heated with the news of a lunch. It…
New Delhi, 22nd March 2022: Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium, has recycled 14 billion litres of water as of January 2022 in FY 21-22, leveraging advanced technologies for focused control and monitoring of water consumption. Vedanta Aluminium’s water sustainability efforts are guided by its robust Water Management Policy. In line with the…
Abuja (Nigeria): Nigeria will honour Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Grand Commander of The Order of the Niger (GCON). The makes PM Modi second foreign dignitary to receive this honour. Queen Elizabeth is the only foreign dignitary who has been awarded with GCON in 1969.This will be the 17th such international award being conferred to…
Goa, 27/5: The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday dissolved its Goa executive committee, a senior AAP leader said. The move is aimed at revamping the party’s state unit, AAP’s Goa president Amit Palekar said. Palekar said AAP’s national general secretary Dr Sandeep Pathak has issued the orders dissolving the executive committee, though he continues to…
Despite a nationwide strike called by bank employees across India, banks will remain open today and continue to provide services to customers, according to official sources. The strike has been organised primarily to press the demand for a five-day workweek, with all Saturdays declared as holidays.The strike has been called by the United Forum of…
Bhubaneswar, 8/4 (AO Bureau): In a major development Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today graced the orientation programme for 275 graduate engineers who joined the State Water Resources Department as Assistant Executive Engineers. Welcoming the new recruits, Chief Minister Shri Patnaik exhorted the engineers to keep themselves abreast of the new technologies in the field…
