Poverty haunts Nagada villages

Jajpur: Nagada villages in forested areas under Chingudipal panchayat in this district shot into the limelight in 2016 after 19 children died due to malnutrition. Since then approximately eight years have elapsed, but the woes continue for the inhabitants of...

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SC to pass order on interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal May 10

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court will deliver its order on granting interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam May 10. Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who headed the bench which heard Kejriwal's petition against his arrest in the case, said, “We will pronounce the interim order (on interim bail) Friday. The main matter related to the challenge to arrest will...

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Congress seeks dismissal of BJP govt, fresh polls in Haryana

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Chandigarh: The Congress Wednesday sought the imposition of President's Rule followed by fresh polls in Haryana after three Independent MLAs withdrew support to the BJP dispensation, reducing the Nayab Singh Saini government to a minority in the state Assembly. The party said it would write to Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya to demand that the BJP government be dismissed. It also asked the JJP, the INLD and Independent MLA Balraj Kundu to...

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Congress ‘Shehzada’ should explain why stopped talking about ‘Ambani-Adani’: Modi

Hyderabad: Mounting an attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday demanded that the party should explain to people why it has stopped raising the 'Ambani-Adani' issue as its 'Shehzada' used to do for the past five years and asked if it has struck a 'deal'. Have "tempo loads of notes (money)" reached the Congress that it has stopped targeting "Ambani-Adani'," Modi said while addressing an election rally at Vemulawada...

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AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine, cites surplus of available updated vaccines

AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine

New Delhi: UK-based pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca has started global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine, which was provided in India as 'Covishield' in partnership with Serum Institute of India, days after it admitted to rare side effects of blood clotting and low platelet counts. The withdrawal has been initiated due to a surplus of available updated vaccines since the pandemic, the company said in a statement. AstraZeneca had partnered with Oxford University...

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SC to pass order on interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal May 10

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will deliver its order on granting interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam May 10. Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who headed the bench which heard Kejriwal's petition against his arrest in the case, said, “We will pronounce the interim order...

Rubella cases in Odisha

Two Rubella cases detected in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district

Nabarangpur: Two children in Odisha's Nabarangpur district have been found to be infected with Rubella virus, a health official said Wednesday. The cases have been detected in Nandahandi and Tentulikhunti blocks of the tribal-dominated district, said Malaya Tripathy, chief district medical officer in-charge, Nabarangpur. Five samples have been sent for testing to the ICMR laboratory, of which...

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JD(S) MLA Revanna remanded to judicial custody till May 14 in woman kidnap case

Bengaluru: Karnataka JD(S) MLA and former Minister HD Revanna, who is facing kidnapping charges, was remanded to judicial custody till May 14 by a Magisterial court here Wednesday. Also, his bail petition before a sessions court has been posted for Thursday. After the completion of four days of police custody, the 66-year-old Revanna, son of JD(S) patriarch...

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Poverty to be fully eradicated from India in next 10-15 years: Rajnath Singh

Bhawanipatna: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday claimed that poverty would be completely eradicated from India in the next 10-15 years and this is 'Modi ki guarantee'. Singh said this while addressing the BJP's 'Vijay Sankalp' rally at Bhawanipatna in the district headquarters town of Kalahandi. "Though Congress leaders beginning from Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to Indira Gandhi...

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Sam Pitroda stirs another row, Congress dissociates itself from his remarks

New Delhi: Congress leader Sam Pitroda triggered another controversy Wednesday with his "people of the east look like the Chinese and those of the south look like Africa" remarks, with the ruling BJP latching on to his "racist" comments and claiming that those have exposed the opposition party's "divisive" politics. The Congress, however, distanced itself from Pitroda's...

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Congress seeks dismissal of BJP govt, fresh polls in Haryana

Chandigarh: The Congress Wednesday sought the imposition of President's Rule followed by fresh polls in Haryana after three Independent MLAs withdrew support to the BJP dispensation, reducing the Nayab Singh Saini government to a minority in the state Assembly. The party said it would write to Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya to demand that the BJP government be...

Huma Qureshi returns as Pushpa Pandey for ‘Jolly LLB 3’

Mumbai: Actor Huma Qureshi is set to reprise her role of Pushpa Pandey in the third installment of the courtroom comedy franchise Jolly LLB. Actors Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi recently started filming for the project, titled Jolly LLB 3. Warsi played the role of Jagdish Tyagi aka Jolly in 2013's Jolly LLB and Kumar starred in...

 

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The Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Far-right allies has been growing authoritarian by the day, throwing...

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