Bhubaneswar: Famous producer Ektaa Kapoor has met Chief Minister Mohan Majhi in Odisha Assembly on Tuesday and thanked him for declaring ‘The Sabarmati Report’ tax-free in Odisha.She had urged Chief Minister Majhi and the Council of Ministers to watch the film. On November 28 Odisha government declared to remove the entertainment tax from ‘The Sabarmati Report’,…
Bhubaneswar, 9/4: In the wake of the launch of an improved housing (plotting) project called ‘Basudeb Bihar’ at Jagannath Prasad Mouza in Bhubaneswar by the Odisha State Housing Board, its information booklet was inaugurated on Saturday at the ‘Housing Building’ headquarters of the organization by the President, Mr. Priyadarshi Mishra. The project aims to…
New Delhi, 9/8India’s Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh on Saturday revealed that the Indian Air Force (IAF) shot down six Pakistani aircraft during Operation Sindoor. Speaking at an event in Bengaluru, Singh also highlighted that one of the kills was the longest-ever recorded surface-to-air elimination by the IAF,…
New Delhi, 8/6: The education ministry has set up a four-member panel to review the grace marks awarded to more than 1,500 candidates in the NEET-UG medical entrance exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Saturday The move comes amid allegations of inflation of marks leading to 67 candidates sharing first rank in the…
Kalahandi, 8/11: In a big development Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated the distribution of smart health cards under the BSKY in Kalahandi district. About 1.4 million people in the district will benefit from this. Nine districts of the state, including Kalahandi, participated in the program. On the occasion, the Chief Minister inaugurated various…
New Delhi, 17/2: India’s top officials said they will continue to cut import taxes as the government looks to work around US President Donald Trump’s plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on trading partners. Weeks after she unveiled sweeping cuts to duties on imports from textiles to motorcycles, India’s finance minister said that she will carry…
New Delhi, 7/5: The world must show zero tolerance for terrorism, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday, hours after India carried out precision strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in retaliation to the Pahalgam attack. The military strikes were carried out under ‘Operation Sindoor’ two weeks after the…
Bikaner, 8/7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dedicated and laid the foundation stones of development projects worth more than Rs 24,300 crore in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district. Modi dedicated to people the six-lane greenfield expressway section of the Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor, the first phase of the Inter-State Transmission Line for the Green Energy Corridor, a…
Bhubaneswar, Jan. 11: Tackling the issue of global pollution is a difficult challenge as traditional remedial technologies are viewed as cost-prohibitive. At times, the remedial process itself contributes to environmental contamination. Scientists and researchers, however, feel that Phytoremediation, a plant- based clean up method, can better manage environmental pollution. A book on the subject, edited…
New Delhi, 14/2:Billionaire Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Resources, the parent of Indian resources giant Vedanta Ltd, said on Wednesday that it has cut its net debt by $2 billion (Rs 16,573.20 crore) in the last 11 months. The company has completed half of its $4-billion (Rs 33,146.40 crore) debt reduction commitment ahead of plans, it…
