Paradeep:The 20th Paradip Marathon 2025 was conducted by the Gopabandhu Kreeda Sansad of Paradip Port Authority (PPA) on Friday on the occasion of 64th Port Foundation Day with Chief Guest PPA Chairman Shri P.L. Haranadh flagging it off at Hanuman Temple Square. Shri Nilabhra Dasgupta, Dy. Chairman, PPA, was Guest of Honour. The marathon covered…
New Delhi, 25/10: Popular messaging app WhatsApp is facing service outages across cities across the world, including India. Several WhatsApp users took to Twitter to complain that they were not able to send messages on the app. On DownDetector, the outage peaked at around 12:30 pm IST. As the per heatmap, people…
Kolkata, 18/4: Acting on the advice of the Election Commission of India (ECI), West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday called off his proposed tour to Cooch Behar, during which he intended to ‘oversee’ the polling process. He, however, alleged that an attempt was being made to ‘politicise the Governor’s office’, while asserting…
Mumbai, 18/2: In what snowballed into a major political issue in Maharashtra, the BJP-led Maha Yuti revoked the decision of granting 5 per cent reservations to Muslims. In 2014 when the Congress-NCP Democratic Front government was in power, the Muslim community, under the Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) category, was given reservation in educational…
New Delhi, 1/12: A video showing a woman YouTuber, reportedly from South Korea, being sexually harassed by a young man on a Mumbai street went viral on Wednesday night. Two have been arrested in the case. Police said they had not received any complaint, but they have taken notice of the incident on…
Mumbai, 9/4: A fire broke out at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) in Mumbai on Thursday. The fire was reported from the Terminal 1 of the CSMIA at 1835 hrs, the Mumbai Fire Brigade said adding that the fire has been upgraded as a Level-1 fire.
Wellington, 31/12 (AO Bureau): New Zealand star batsman Kane Williamson has become the No.1 batsman in Tests. The 30-year-old has surpassed Steve Smith and Virat Kohli to top the latest ICC Test Rankings of batsmen. Williamson briefly occupied the top spot at the end of 2015, but Smith or Kohli remained at number one since…
Bangkok, 28/3: A strong earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, earthquake monitoring services said, which affected Bangkok as well with hundreds of people pouring out of buildings in the Thai capital in panic after the tremors. There was no immediate word from Myanmar on damage after the quake, which the United States Geological Survey (USGS)…
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is set to launch the ambitious ‘Godabarisha Mishra Adarsha Prathamika Vidyalaya Yojana’, aimed at transforming primary education across the state.This initiative, announced by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, will see the construction of 6,794 modern primary schools across all panchayats in Odisha.Inspired by the legacy of the ‘Satyabadi Vana Vidyalaya’, the…
Mumbai, 17/2: The Election Commission on Friday ordered that the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena will get the official name of Shiv Sena and the bow-arrow symbol of the Balasaheb Thackeray-founded party, amid an ongoing tussle between the Shinde faction and the Uddhav Thackeray faction over these rights. Following the rebellion spearheaded by Eknath…
