Mumbai, 20/5: For reasons unknown yet, the much-awaited Ayodhya visit of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray has been postponed for now. Raj (53) was expected to visit the temple town in Uttar Pradesh on 5 June. Raj, in a tweet, confirmed that the visit to Ayodhya stands postponed. “The Ayodhya visit is postponed…
Bhubaneswar, 25/4 (AO bureau)The number of Coronavirus cases is increasing day by day. As many as 6116 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Odisha during the last 24 hours, according to the health department. Out of 6116 cases, 3546 were detected in quarantine while 2570 are local contact cases. Khurda registered the highest number of…
New York, 31/8: Novak Djokovic suffered a major upset at the hands of Alexei Popyrin with a 6-4 6-4 2-6 6-4 beating in the third round of the US Open on Friday to end the Serbian’s bid for a 25th Grand Slam title. Defending champion Djokovic, who had to dig deep to win the Olympic…
Mumbai, 11/2: N Chandrasekhar has again become the chairman of Tata Sons. In fact, the board of Tata Sons on Friday decided to extend the tenure of Chairman N Chandrasekaran for 5 years. Chandrasekaran was made the chairman of Tata Sons for the first time in the year 2017. His term was ending on this…
Mumbai, 14/11: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said he does not want to hide his caste and that he has never done politics using it as a medium. Pawar’s statement comes days after a purported certificate showing him as belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category went viral on social…
Patna, 22/8: Former Bihar chief minister and RJD president Lalu Prasad on Tuesday visited his ancestral village Phulwaria in Gopalganj district. Accompanied by his wife Rabri Devi, an ex-chief minister, Prasad garlanded the statue of his mother Marachhiya Devi at Marachhiya Chowk. After his kidney transplant, the RJD chief visited his ancestral village for the…
New Delhi, 19/7: Controversial IAS trainee Puja Khedkar is in for further trouble with the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday by initiating a series of actions against her, including filing an FIR, claiming that she “fraudulently” availed availed attempts beyond the permissible limit by faking her identity.
Bhubaneswar: Senior Daitapati servitor (sevayat) of the Puri Jagannath Temple, Ramakrishna Das Mahapatra, issued a clarification regarding the controversy surrounding the naming of the Jagannath temple at Digha in West Bengal as Digha Jagannath Dham. Talking to the mediapersons, he stated that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is his disciple and she had invited…
New Delhi, 26/12: The four-member panel that probed the massive flight disruptions at IndiGo earlier this week has submitted its report to the aviation regulator DGCA, according to a senior official. The inquiry committee, headed by DGCA Joint Director General Sanjay K Bramhane, was constituted on December 5 to conduct a comprehensive review and assessment…
Geneva, 1/1: Swiss police said on Thursday that several people had died and others were injured due to a fire of unknown causes at a bar called “Le Constellation” in the ski resort of Crans-Montana in southwestern Switzerland. The area has been completely closed off, and a no-fly zone has been imposed over Crans-Montana, the…
