BHUBANESWAR: Days after Odisha commerce and transport minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena called for a thorough probe into V K Pandian’s helicopter rides, state law minister Prithiviraj Harichandan on Sunday said the govt will investigate how 450 helipads were constructed to land the chopper carrying the bureaucrat-turned-politician.Pandian, a close aide of former chief minister Naveen Patnaik,…
NEW DELHI: Resident doctors at major govt hospitals across Delhi are set to indefinitely halt all elective services starting Monday to protest the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor in Kolkata. They are demanding immediate action in the case and measures to ensure protection for all healthcare workers.President of the Federation of Resident…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday claimed Congress and other opposition parties were part of a conspiracy to create financial instability and chaos in India, as the party rejected Hindenburg’s charge against the Sebi chairperson as an attempt to discredit the financial watchdog.BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the short-selling firm, which last year levelled serious allegations…
MEERUT: Following a Chief Judicial Magistrate court order, police in Meerut lodged an FIR against principal and yoga instructor of a govt-run Army Public School in Meerut Cant, for ‘slapping a Class 7 student who later turned blind’.The student’s mother, Indu Devi, said her son is suffering from a retinal problem and had very low…
DEHRADUN: The additional district judge of a special Pocso court in Dehradun acquitted a 42-year-old man, who had been accused of raping his 15-year-old daughter and had spent the past five years in jail, after it was found that he had been falsely incriminated by the girl since he objected to her bunking school and…
JAMMU: Jammu & Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Sunday hinted that assembly elections will be held soon.“Things are progressing as planned: first delimitation, then assembly polls, and finally statehood. Election Commission’s team has already met with stakeholders, including leaders of political parties,” he said.During his visit to Srinagar on International Yoga Day, PM Narendra Modi…
NEW DELHI: Security forces exchanged fire with terrorists on Sunday in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. The security officials had initiated a joint search operation in the elevated regions of Basantgarh, falling under the jurisdiction of Basantgarh Police Station in Udhampur, acting on precise intelligence regarding the presence of terrorists in the area. The…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient and biofortified varieties of 61 crops, including 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops, and suggested that the ‘Krishi Vigyan Kendras’ (KVKs) – agri extension centres – should proactively inform farmers about the benefits of the new varieties as it will help them…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) MP Supriya Sule reported that her phone and WhatsApp were hacked, but after seeking assistance from Pune Rural Police and WhatsApp Support, service was restored. The sitting MP from Baramati, Maharashtra and daughter of NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar thanked the authorities for their prompt help.Earlier today, Sule informed…
NEW DELHI: The semi-nude body of a second-year post-graduate female trainee doctor was found on August 9 (Friday) at R G Kar Medical College in Kolkata. Her body was recovered on Friday morning at 7:30 from a seminal hall of the hospital’s emergency building. “Her body was found in the seminar hall at the emergency…
