Bhubaneswar: After a long wait of seven years, the state government, Thursday, appointed former Orissa High Court judge Bimal Prasad Das as the chairperson of Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC), official sources said. The long-standing demands of the human rights activists of the state at...
Read moreLondon: Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, wanted in India in connection with the nearly USD two billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, was Thursday further remanded to judicial custody until September 19. During a short remand hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court...
Read moreKolkata: Amidst raging controversy about the end of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure DNA tests are done on the ashes kept at Renkoji temple in Japan to ‘bring out the truth’ and alleged...
Read moreNew Delhi: Opposition parties, including the Congress, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the DMK, protested Thursday to demand the release of political leaders under detention in Jammu and Kashmir. Congress leader P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram also joined the protest at Jantar Mantar. It...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Congress lashed out Thursday at the government over the arrest of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram. It accused the government of using the CBI and Enforcement Directorate as a personal ‘revenge-seeking departments’ and termed it as a broad daylight ‘murder’ of democracy....
Read moreNew Delhi: Former Union Finance minister P Chidambaram spent a quiet night Wednesday in the CBI guest house on the ground floor of the agency headquarters after his dramatic arrest from his posh residence in the INX media corruption case, officials said Thursday morning. P...
Read moreKendrapara: Five people died and two persons, including a woman, were injured Wednesday in Kendrapara district after lightning struck them while they were working in farms. The injured are undergoing treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital. All the five dead were engaged in sowing operations...
Read moreBangalore: ISRO Wednesday said it has performed the second lunarbound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft thatis currently in the lunar orbit for its rendezvous with the Moon. All spacecraft parameters are normal, the Bangalore headquartered space agency said after the maneuver. "Second Lunar bound orbit...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against senior journalist and co-founder of listed broadcaster New Delhi Television (NDTV) Prannoy Roy, his wife Radhika Roy and the company’s CEO and Director Vikramaditya Chandra under charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Union government said Wednesday that 63 clauses of ‘Motor Vehicle Act’, which includes higher penalties for traffic violation, will be implemented September 1 onwards. “The bill (Motor Vehicles Bill, 2019) was passed (in Parliament). And we have decided to implement 63...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement to allow free travel for women in public transport buses in the capital from...
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Having taken some bold yet highly controversial steps in Kashmir, it was the need of time for the Modi government...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address to the nation Thursday, announced the decision to appoint a Chief...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address to the nation Thursday, announced the decision to appoint a Chief...
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