Odisha: 37 candidates in fray for May 13 elections to four LS seats
Bhubaneswar: Thirty-seven candidates are in the fray for the elections to four Lok Sabha seats in Odisha for which voting will be held May 13, EC officials informed. The nomination process for Nabarangpur, Berhampur, Koraput and Kalahandi Lok Sabha segments started April 18 and the last date was April 25....
Read moreIndia taking this seriously: US official over report on assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader
Washington: India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US seriously, the White House has said but refrained from commenting on the FBI probe into the matter and the criminal case filed by the Department of Justice. The remarks by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Monday came amid an investigative media report claiming that a RAW official identified as Vikram...
Read moreJD(S) suspends Deve Gowda’s grandson over sex scandal row: Kumaraswamy
Shivamogga (Karnataka): Former Chief Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy said that the decision of suspending Prajwal Revanna, his nephew and the grandson of former Prime Minister Deve Gowda, has already been taken by his party. The decision was taken by JD(S) after an alleged sex scandal involving his nephew Prajwal Revanna started doing several rounds in his parliamentary constituency of Hassan. Speaking to media persons in Shivamogga, Kumaraswamy Monday said,...
Read moreIndia summons Canadian diplomat over raising of pro-Khalistan slogans at event attended by Trudeau
New Delhi: India Monday summoned the Canadian deputy high commissioner and lodged a strong protest over the raising of pro-Khalistan slogans at a public event in Toronto in the presence of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) described the raising of the slogans at the event as "disturbing" and said it illustrated once again the political space that has been given in Canada to "separatism, extremism and...
Read moreSC stays CBI probe into West Bengal govt officials’ role in teacher recruitment scam
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday stayed a Calcutta High Court order directing the CBI to probe into the role of West Bengal government officials in a teacher recruitment scam. The top court was hearing a plea by the West Bengal government against a high court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made by the School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and state-aided schools. A bench of...
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Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips. The South Korean semiconductor and smartphone giant said its operating profit for the Jan-March quarter came in at 6.6 trillion won ($4.8 billion), up...
Odisha: 37 candidates in fray for May 13 elections to four LS seats
Bhubaneswar: Thirty-seven candidates are in the fray for the elections to four Lok Sabha seats in Odisha for which voting will be held May 13, EC officials informed. The nomination process for Nabarangpur, Berhampur, Koraput and Kalahandi Lok Sabha segments started April 18 and the last date was April 25. The papers were scrutinised April 26, while...
India taking this seriously: US official over report on assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader
Washington: India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US seriously, the White House has said but refrained from commenting on the FBI probe into the matter and the criminal case filed by the Department of Justice. The remarks by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Monday...
JD(S) suspends Deve Gowda’s grandson over sex scandal row: Kumaraswamy
Shivamogga (Karnataka): Former Chief Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy said that the decision of suspending Prajwal Revanna, his nephew and the grandson of former Prime Minister Deve Gowda, has already been taken by his party. The decision was taken by JD(S) after an alleged sex scandal involving his nephew Prajwal Revanna started doing several rounds in...
Calling The Bluff
The ruse of Israel that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) harboured 12 Palestinians working for Hamas that launched the attack on Israel 7 October, 2023, has fallen flat. An independent group of experts headed by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna has nailed the lie in its report released recently. The importance of this revelation...
Poultry biz goes haywire in Odisha’s Kendrapara
Kendrapara: With the lone chick-producing farm located inside the veterinary hospital here lying closed for the last 12 years, poultry business in Kendrapara district has slipped into the hands of big companies. These big companies, who own or control everything except the farms, call the shots in the poultry business. Poultry meat is sold for around Rs...
Horoscope April 30: Lady luck smiling at Leo, Libra will receive good news from abroad
Aries: Today, you are raring to go. You should put that adrenaline to good use. This is the time to work and not plan. It's a day you can lift mountains and cross the seas. You can party hard later, says Ganesha. Taurus: Spontaneity, predicts Ganesha, is the need of the hour. Ignore the negative aspects and...
NIT Rourkela felicitates alumni who cracked UPSC-CSE
Rourkela: NIT Rourkela Monday felicitated five of its illustrious alumni who made it to the UPSC Civil Services Examination merit list in a packed Bhubaneswar Behera Auditorium on its campus in Odisha’s Rourkela. Five former students of the premier institute have succeeded in the UPSC CSE for 2023, the result of which was declared April 16. The...
Odisha: Ganja worth Rs 3 crore seized; two arrested
Malkangiri: Kalimela police seized 350 kg ganja worth `3 crore and arrested two persons Sunday night while patrolling near Kenduguda village under Kurmanur panchayat in this district. Acting on a tip-off about ganja smuggling in the forest, Kalimela police conducted a raid and arrested two smugglers while they were preparing to smuggle the contraband hidden in sacks...
Odisha: Mahua flowers worth Rs 1 crore seized; five held
Keonjhar: The district Excise enforcement squad and mobile unit nabbed five persons along with seizure of five vehicles loaded with huge quantities of Mahua flower worth over `1 crore during a raid at Banpar village under Town police limits in Keonjhar district, Monday. The Excise personnel arrested three drivers and two helpers of the seized vehicles and...