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Bhubaneswar, June 25 (IANS) In a significant political development, former IAS officer Sujata R. Karthikeyan, wife of Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik’s trusted aide and bureaucrat-turned-politician V.K. Pandian, formally joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday, putting an end...
New Delhi/Bengaluru, June 25 (IANS) The Central government has announced financial relief for mango growers in Karnataka who have been hit hard by falling market prices and adverse weather conditions. Under the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS), the Centre has approved...
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday welcomed Amazon's record $48 billion investment in India, saying that this investment will create new opportunities for youth in the country.Amazon has announced to invest a total of $48...
Bengaluru, June 25 (IANS) The Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday submitted a complaint to State Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbu Kumar, seeking urgent intervention against what it termed a parallel, unauthorised, and conflicting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process...
Pune, June 25 (IANS) Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, who have been accused of the alleged murder of the former's financee Ketan Agarwal, were questioned together after being made to sit facing each other, officials said.According to NDTV, the two...
Bhopal, June 25 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement's (ED) Bhopal Zonal Office has carried out extensive search operations at 12 premises linked to the Shri Astha Foundation for Education Society and the Chouksey Group under Section 17 of the Prevention...
Jaipur, June 25 (IANS) The mystery surrounding the disappearance of four children from the same family in Jaipur's Muhana area has been solved. The children, who had gone missing after leaving home without informing their families, were traced safely to...
Ranchi, June 25 (IANS) In a fresh development in the case of 18-year-old Pushpa Kumari, who went missing nearly 11 months ago from Jharkhand's Bokaro district, the DNA extracted from a tooth of the recovered skeletal remains matches Pushpa’s DNA...
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal penned a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, raising the party’s “vehement objection” to the notification of new (Foreign Contribution Regulation Amendment) FCRA rules and demanded its withdrawal...
Thiruvananthapuram, June 25 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran has once again emerged as a thorn in the side of the V.D. Satheesan-led Kerala government, publicly attacking the proposed tax structure for low-alcohol beverages in the State Budget and demanding...
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) The plan for the construction of the warehouse at Taratala on the Southern outskirts of Kolkata that collapsed on Wednesday while it was under construction, was sanctioned by former Mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)...
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The government has expanded the ambit of QR code-based tracking to include vaccines, antimicrobials, anti-cancer medicines and narcotic and psychotropic drugs to strengthen the quality, safety and integrity of India's pharmaceutical supply chain, according to...