Bhubaneswar: The state Cabinet decided Wednesday to expand the Biju Expressway by constructing roads and bridges in Kalahandi and Nuapada districts. Briefing about the Cabinet decisions, Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra said, “The Cabinet took 11 major decisions today out of which four are related...
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed retired IAS officer Anup Chandra Pandey as Election Commissioner. The appointment restores the three-member commission to its full strength, which will now oversee the next set of crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and...
Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to strengthen its medical infrastructure to tackle the possible third wave of Covid-19 that may hit the children hard. Accepting the recommendations of the Technical Committee headed by Director, Medical Education & Training (DMET) CBK Mohanty, the Health and...
Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to make available a cocktail of antibody drugs for treatment of Covid-19 patients. Following permission of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), the government has decided to make available the Pegylated Interferon alpha-2b (PegIFN) & casirivimab and imdevimab (antibody...
New Delhi: Use of non-transferable electronic vouchers approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be encouraged to enable people to financially support Covid-19 inoculation of economically weaker sections at private centres, according to the revised guidelines issued Tuesday by the Centre. The Co-WIN...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday announced that the central government will provide free coronavirus vaccine to states for inoculation of all above the age of 18 from June 21, and asserted that vaccine supply would be increased significantly in the country in coming...
Karachi: Two passenger trains collided in Pakistan's southern Sindh Province early Monday morning, killing at least 36 people and injuring scores of others, according to officials. The accident occurred when the Millat Express train from Karachi to Sargodha derailed and fell on the opposite track...
Kolkata: Villagers in Myanmar fought security forces with catapults and crossbows in the Ayeyarwady river delta region, with local media reporting that 20 lives were lost in the violence. State television claimed three "terrorists" had been killed and two arrested at the village of Hlayswe,...
Kolkata: The West Bengal government is issuing certificates of COVID-19 vaccination to the people in the age group of 18-44 sponsored by the state with the photogrtaph of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. An official said Saturday this is being done since the state government has...
Washington: The head of China's Wuhan virology lab, also called as the 'bat woman', and an expert from the University of North Carolina in the US, had in a paper published in 2015 flagged the dangers of their gain-of-function experiment of a novel coronavirus which...
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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