New Delhi, 1/6: Several exit polls on Saturday predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain power for a third straight term, with the BJP-led NDA expected to win a big majority in the Lok Sabha polls. The ruling alliance in all likelihood will open its account in Tamil Nadu and Kerala and sweep Karnataka…
Bhubaneswar, March 17: Glowing tributes were paid to the memory of eminent poet and administrator Padmabhushan Ramakant Rath, who passed away yesterday, at the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University here on Monday. A large number of poets, writers and critics assembled at a condolence meeting organised by the SOA Centre for Preservation, Propagation…
New Delhi, 7/12: The talks on production of Russia’s anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccine Sputnik Light in India are in advanced stage and the single shot jab is being proposed to be administered as a booster for people already inoculated with two doses of Covishield. The talks on Sputnik Light are nearing completion,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov…
New Delhi, 29/8: Journalists are not terrorists”, the Supreme Court said on Monday, as it deprecated the Jharkhand police knocking on the door of a scribe of a local Hindi news channel at midnight and dragging him out of his bedroom before placing him under arrest in an extortion case. Calling the police action…
Brajarajnagar, 7/2: In a major development the murder accused in the Naba Das death case Gopal Das, has recreated the murder scene in Jharsuguda district of Odisha. He recreated the murder scene and demonstrated how he held the pistol tightly with both hands and shot Naba Das on the ill-fated day. He then scared…
New Delhi, 11/12 I.N.D.I.A bloc parties on Wednesday intensified the attack on the Rajya Sabha Chairman with Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge claiming that Jagdeep Dhankhar has become a “spokesperson of the government” for his “next promotion” . A day after they submitted a notice to remove him as Vice President, most of the I.N.D.I.A….
Bengaluru, 17/2: The Karnataka government notified the quantum of Gig workers’ welfare fee which different aggregator platforms must pay as a contribution to the gig workers’ welfare fund. Following this, aggregator platforms such as Swiggy, Zomato, Ola, Uber and so on will have to pay the necessary welfare fee to the Gig workers’ board from…
New Delhi, 10/10: India will restore the status of its mission in the capital of Afghanistan to that of an embassy and restart supporting development projects in the conflict-ravaged country, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said as he hosted the foreign minister of the Taliban regime in Kabul, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in New Delhi on…
New Delhi, 4/3 (AO Bureau): The election trumpet in West Bengal is over. The ruling Trinamool Congress (Trinamool Congress) is engaged in efforts to save the throne, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ready with an army of veterans in the state. On Thursday, the TMC’s top leaders met the ward presidents and coordinators…
Washington, 6/11: In July, Indian-American lawyer Usha Chilukuri Vance burst into the national spotlight after her husband J D Vance was named by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as his running mate. With the Trump-Vance victory on Wednesday, Usha, 38, is set to become America’s Second Lady — the first Indian-American in that role. Usha…
