https://www.orissapost.com/ashwini-vaishnaw-takes-charge-as-indias-new-it-minister/New Delhi: Effecting a big reset, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday brought in Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Scindia as Cabinet ministers while dropping as many as 12 ministers including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister...
Mumbai: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar passed away here Wednesday due to age-related illness, his family has confirmed. He was 98. He died at the private Hinduja Hospital where had been admitted for certain breathing issues. Confirming the demise of the veteran actor, his family friend...
New Delhi: Leaders of 10 opposition parties including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi wrote Tuesday to President Ram Nath Kovind. The opposition leaders expressed ‘outrage’ at the death of Father Stan Swamy ‘under custody’. They sought the president’s intervention in holding accountable those responsible for ‘foisting...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed pleas seeking permission to conduct Rath Yatra at various places other than Puri in Odisha. A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana said that it would not interfere with the directions passed by the state government under...
New Delhi: Activists expressed Monday anguish over the death of Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy. They demanded that the government fix accountability for this ‘custodial murder’. Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died at a Mumbai hospital Monday...
New Delhi: A month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the cancellation of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams for class 12 students this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Monday said that those students who were not...
New Delhi: The third wave of coronavirus could hit the peak between October-November if Covid appropriate behaviour is not followed, but may see half the daily cases recorded during the second surge, according to a scientist of a government panel tasked with modelling of Covid-19...
New Delhi: US microblogging and social networking service Twitter has informed the Delhi High Court that it is in the final stages of appointing a resident grievance officer in India. In a reply submitted to the Delhi High Court, Twitter said that even before steps...
Washington: The death toll from the partial collapse of a condo in Florida has risen to 22 as the Miami-Dade Police Department Friday released the identities of three additional victims but withheld that of the fourth. The department said on Twitter that the newly discovered...
Bhubaneswar: Petrol prices in various districts of Odisha crossed the Rs 100-per-litre mark Friday. With the latest increase in petrol prices by Rs 36 paise, the fuel now costs Rs 100.01 per litre in Bhubaneswar, while the diesel cost remains unchanged at Rs 97.25 per...
More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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By Dilip Cherian The litany of extensions continues. The latest is Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose tenure the Modi...
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