Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government announced Monday that it will provide free education to all children who are orphaned by the Covid-19 pandemic. As per information available from various government sources, so far 35 children in Odisha have lost both their parents due to Covid-19. An...
Bhubaneswar: Clearing the air on announcement of annual matriculation results, Odisha School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash Sunday said that the results will be announced by last week of June. “The process of evaluation is underway. The results will be published within the...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday called for following a ‘one earth, one health’ approach to effectively deal with the coronavirus pandemic globally, and sought the support of the G7 grouping to lift patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, during a virtual address at an...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Higher Education Minister Arun Sahoo Saturday said that UG and PG examinations will be held in the state this year. Referring to last year’s situation, he said, “Even though many states had cancelled examinations owing to the pandemic, we did not. This year...
Washington: The Attending Physician of US Congress has sent new guidance announcing that masks are no longer required on the House floor for those who are fully vaccinated, a media report said. The Capitol Hill complex is now at 85 per cent vaccination rate, Xinhua...
Bhubaneswar: A special unit from the office of the Drugs Controller in the state conducted raids in Cuttack over the last two days and seized a huge quantity of spurious anti-viral drug Favipiravir, now used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The joint operation of...
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee termed it as the ‘homecoming of the prodigal son’. Mukul Roy himself said, ‘I am fed up with the BJP, I do not want to be a part of the BJP anymore and so I have returned’ to the Trinamool Congress (TMC)....
Kolkata: BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy left his home for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) headquarters here Friday afternoon. There has been speculation in the last few days that Mukul Roy might return to the ruling party in West Bengal. Roy is a former second-in-command of...
Bhubaneswar: The Southwest monsoon has set in over Odisha, Bhubaneswar-based regional Meteorological Centre of IMD said Thursday. In a Twitter post, the agency wrote, “Southwest #Monsoon has set in over #Odisha today, the #10thJune 2021. Conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into remaining...
Mumbai: Nine members of a family were among 11 killed when a two-storied residential building crashed on an adjoining structure in Malad West just before midnight, officials said here Thursday. Seven more are injured, several missing, while seven of the deceased are women. A majority...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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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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