New Delhi, 15/3 (AO Bureau): In a major development, Biju Janata Dal MP delegation from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha met Union Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Piyush Goyal and forcefully placed the demand for expediting paddy evacuation and pending Subsidy. To come out of economic impact because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the government’s…
Thoothukudi: The Tiruchendur Forest Department in the Thoothukudi district has successfully recovered around 2,000 turtle eggs from the beach, marking a positive step in the conservation of sea turtles in the region. Olive ridley turtles, found in abundance in the Gulf of Mannar, are among the species whose numbers have been steadily declining in recent…
Islamabad, 17/11:In a major development, Pakistan’s Parliament in its joint sitting on Wednesday enacted a law to give Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav the right to file a review appeal against his conviction by a military court. Jadhav, a 51-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on…
Bhubaneswar: A devotee showed his utter faith and devotion to Goddess Tarini of Ghatagaan by donating a gold crown worth Rs 50 lakh. He had had made a spiritual promise before the Goddess who listiened to his prayers and blessed him as per his wish. The devotee, Bajrang Agarwal, a resident of Sundargarh district gifted the…
Sambalpur: A Class IX girl went missing in the Mahanadi River on Sunday morning after reportedly jumping off the Chaurapur bridge in Odisha’s Sambalpur district.Eyewitnesses said the girl arrived at the bridge on her bicycle, left her school bag and mobile phone there, and then leapt into the swollen river.The girl has been identified as…
Bhubaneswar, May 25: The Odisha Government on Monday transferred ADG (Communication) Dayal Gangwar as OSD in the Home Department amid the controversy surrounding the death of a GRP constable Soumya Ranjan Swain by an angry mob in Balianta on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on May 7.The decision reportedly comes after the NHRC put the State Government…
Bhubaneswar, 3/3: In a major political development, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced two candidates for the Upper House from the state. The party’s Central Election Committee has nominated state BJP president Manmohan Samal and sitting Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar. The announcement has intensified political discussions in the state capital, as parties…
Nagpur, 28/6: Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Saturday said Dr B R Ambedkar envisioned one Constitution for the country to keep it united and never favoured the idea of a separate constitution for a state. Speaking at the inauguration of the Constitution Preamble Park here, the CJI said the Supreme Court drew…
UP, 2/3: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday claimed the SP and the BSP have an understanding with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and have not raised their voices against it in the last five years, fearing probes by central agencies. Referring to the death of some people during anti-CAA and anti-NRC…
Today i.e. on 02.05.2025, a short while ago, Smt. Sakuntala Das, CDPO, Dashmantpur Block, Dist-Koraput has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance along with Smt. Minati Khosla, Anganwadi Worker of Adhamunda Anganwadi Centre, for demanding and taking bribe Rs.10,000/- from a newly appointed Anganwadi Helper in order to open her personal file and release her salary….
