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Bhubaneswar: In a significant move towards a sustainable and energy-efficient future, NITI Aayog, the Odisha government, and the Institute for Sustainability, Employment and Growth (ISEG) Foundation Thursday signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to collaborate on a transformative clean energy transition initiative in the state. The tripartite agreement was signed in Bhubaneswar by Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja; CEO of NITI Aayog B V R Subrahmanyam, and Director & Founding Partner of ISEG Foundation ...Read More >
Mumbai: Actress-turned-politician Smriti Irani and her show 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi' reboot is winning hearts, just like it did 25 years ago. Tulsi Virani (played by Smriti), the favourite bahu of television viewers, recently opened up on the comparisons between her show and Rupali Ganguly-starrer 'Anupamaa' and said she doesn't see the new show as a competition. "I don't (look at them as competition)... So when somebody gets to number 30 in terms of TRPs, then you can be our competiti ...Read More >
New Delhi: Shots were fired at popular comedian Kapil Sharma's restaurant in Canada late on Wednesday night (local time), NDTV reported. This was the third such incident targeting Kap's Café since it was launched in early July in Surrey, a city in British Columbia. Gangsters Goldy Dhillon and Kuldeep Sidhu, both part of Lawrence Bishnoi's operations, claimed credit for the attack on social media. The first attack was on July 10, within a week of the café's opening, when some employees were in ...Read More >
Mumbai: Amid ongoing rumours of trouble in his married life, Govinda, has for the first time, opened up about the controversy on Twinkle Khanna and Kajol's talk show, 'Too Much with Kajol and Twinkle.' Govinda, who appeared on Twinkle and Kajol's chat show with Chunky Panday, said, "Koi hume alag nahi kar sakta (No one can separate us.)" Addressing the claims made by his wife Ssunita Ahuja about trouble in their paradise, the veteran actor explained: "Ssunita is like a kid, but the responsibil ...Read More >
Ahmedabad: Four months after the horrific Air India crash in Ahmedabad killed all but one of 242 people on board flight AI-171 and 19 others on ground, the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal has moved the Supreme Court seeking a judicially-monitored inquiry into the accident. The 91-year-old Pushkaraj Sabharwal, whose son Captain Sumeet was one of the two pilots of the ill-fated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner which crashed 30 seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London Gatwick, has ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Joining a public outreach march and spending time with children on his 79th birthday, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday said he would continue to serve the state and its people till the end of his life. Naveen, who is the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Odisha Assembly, joining the regional party's ongoing annual 'Jan Sampark Padyatra' in Bhubaneswar in the morning. This was Naveen's first public appearance after nearly six mont ...Read More >
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: The West Bengal police will seek court approval to conduct a Test Identification (TI) parade to allow the second-year medical student from Odisha, who was allegedly gangraped on October 10 at Durgapur in Paschim Bardhaman district, to identify the arrested suspects as the perpetrators of the crime. Six individuals, including the survivors's male friend who accompanied her off-campus for dinner that night, have been arrested. The classmate, Wasif Ali, is the prime accused in ...Read More >
New Delhi: India on Thursday strongly reiterated that its energy import decisions are driven by domestic consumer interests, rejecting US President Donald Trump's statement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had "assured" him that India would cease buying Russian oil. Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, said: "I was not happy that India was buying oil. And he (Modi) assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia. That's a big stop." He further added, "Th ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Rohtak police in Haryana have registered an FIR against the wife of the late Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, her brother, Punjab legislator Amit Rattan, and two others on charges of abetment of suicide and criminal conspiracy in connection with the death of Assistant Sub‑Inspector (ASI) Sandeep Lathar. SI Sandeep Lathar was found dead with a gunshot wound at his village home on Tuesday evening. A note discovered at the scene purportedly leveled corruption allegations against ...Read More >
Bhawanipatna: A 24-year-old youth has been arrested in Odisha's Kalahandi district for allegedly attempting to extort Rs 35 lakh from his father by sending a threatening letter falsely attributed to Maoists. According to sources, Dinesh Agarwal, a local contractor and a resident of Rupra Road, found the extortion letter in his car on October 7, in which Maoists had threatened to eliminate his entire family if he failed to cough up Rs 35 lakh. To build up pressure and ensure that the plan worked ...Read More >
Mumbai: 'Bigg Boss 19' contestant, actor-filmmaker Zeishan Quadri, who got evicted from the Salman Khan hosted reality show last week, has opened up about his bond with Tanya Mittal. Inside the 'Bigg Boss 19' house, Zeishan was seen bonding quite well with social media influencer Tanya Mittal. When asked about his equation with Tanya post his exit from the show, Zeishan said, "Mera uske sath koi equation nahi hai, maine sirf maze liye hain baithkar uske sath. (There is no equation between me a ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Mahila Janata Dal on Wednesday came down heavily on Chief Minister Mohan Majhi for releasing the video of his conversation with the Odia medical student, who was allegedly gangraped in West Bengal's Durgapur on October 10. Senior leaders of the women wing of the BJD argued that releasing the survivor's identity and making her recorded conversation public violates the Supreme Court guidelines. Addressing a presser at Shankha Bhavan, senior general secretary Tukuni Sahu sai ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Amid outrage over chief minister Mamata Banerjee's 'girls should not go out at night' remarks, the West Bengal police have apprehended the remaining two accused in the alleged rape of a second-year medical student from Odisha in Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to five on Monday. A temporary worker at Durgapur Municipal Corporation, Sheikh Nasiruddin, was nabbed last night, while Sheikh Safiqul, a local resident, was caught hiding at a relative's house in th ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The students' and youth wings of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) staged a demonstration in Ganjam on Friday demanding a thorough investigation by the CBI into alleged irregularities in Combined Police Service Examination (CPSE) 2024, which has been postponed. Holding banners, posters and placards, the protesters raised slogans against the BJP government in Odisha as they took out a march in Berhampur. Notably, the written examination for recruitment of sub-inspectors conducted by the Odisha ...Read More >
Mumbai: Businessman Raj Kundra, husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, has claimed before the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police that his company suffered major losses after the 2016 demonetisation drive -- a blow, he said, that severely affected his ability to repay investors. His statement comes amid a probe into an alleged Rs 60.48 crore cheating case linked to his firm Best Deal TV Pvt Ltd. The case was registered following a complaint by Deepak Kothari, director of Lotus Capital Financ ...Read More >
Mumbai: Trolls have often targeted actress Rashmika Mandanna for looking down upon Kannada film industry after finding work in Telugu and Hindi film industry. Now, rumours claim that Rashmika has been banned by the Kannada producers. Breaking her silence on ban rumours, Rashmika, who is currently promoting her upcoming film 'Thamma', smiled and said, "So far, I have not been banned. So, yeah..." When asked if she has seen Rishab Shetty's 'Kantara: Chapter 1', the actress said, she saw the fil ...Read More >
Mumbai: Three days after becoming parents to a baby girl, celebrity couple, Arbaaz Khan and Sshura Khan, took to their Instagram handle on Wednesday to share the name of their newborn. The couple's joint post on Insta, announcing their daughter's name, read as, "Welcome baby girl Sipaara Khan. With love Shura and Arbaaz." In the caption, new mom Sshura wrote, "Alhamdulillah (red heart emoticon)." Earlier in the day, Arbaaz was seen exiting the hospital with the newborn in his arms. Sshura wa ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bigg Boss 19 contestant Amaal Mallik is once again in the news for his unpleasant behaviour in the house. After being slammed for hypocrisy and usage of abusive language, the singer is now being trolled for his unhygienic habit. In a video clip from the Bigg Boss 19 show, Amaal is seen drinking water from the hose directly and later spitting in the kitchen sink. No wonder Amaal was trolled by netizens who found his habit not only unhygienic but disgusting as well. "Drink water like A ...Read More >
Chennai: An Air India flight from Colombo in Sri Lanka to Chennai suffered a bird hit while landing on Tuesday. According to officials, the plane was carrying 158 passengers. All passengers are safe and were deboarded after the aircraft landed. The return flight from Chennai to Colombo has been cancelled as the aircraft is being checked for structural damages. An official said that the bird hit was detected after the aircraft landed. Bird activity around major international airports in India ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Tata Steel faces a financial challenge in Odisha after local authorities made a demand of Rs 2,411 crore. The office of Deputy Director of Mines, Jajpur, has sent the demand letter to Tata Steel over an alleged shortfall in chrome ore dispatch from its Sukinda Chromite Block for the fifth year of operations, spanning July 23, 2024, to July 22, 2025. Officials have alleged that the company did not meet dispatch obligations at its Sukinda mine under the Mine Development and Producti ...Read More >
Kolkata/Visakhapatnam: The Navy added punch to its anti-submarine warfare capabilities by commissioning INS Androth, its second Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC), at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam on Monday. INS Androth is the second in a series of eight ASW SWCs being built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd for the Navy. The first ship of the series - INS Arnala - was commissioned on June 18 this year. INS Androth was delivered by GRSE on September ...Read More >
Srinagar: Mohammad Yousuf Katari (26) would still be providing logistics support to terrorists from across the border had the security forces not chanced upon a half-burnt mobile charger from the Op Mahadev encounter site. Katari, an Over-Ground Worker (OGW) of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was arrested in the last week of September on charges of helping the three Pakistani terrorists directly involved in the Pahalgam terror attack of April 22 in which 26 people, most of them tourists from across ...Read More >
Mumbai: The highly-anticipated action-drama 'War 2', starring superstars Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR that released earlier this year, failed to meet the expectations of fans and underperformed at the box-office. Now, after more than a month of its release on August 14, lead actor Hrithik Roshan opened up about the film, saying that it was too easy during the shoot. Sharing a series of pictures from 'War 2's shoot on Instagram, Hrithik wrote, "Playing kabir was so much fun. So relaxed, knew him s ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar graced the Inauguration Of Cyber Awareness Month held at the State Police Headquarters in Mumbai on Friday. At the event, the actor shared a dark anecdote involving his 13-year-old daughter Nitara, who was asked to share her nude pictures which playing online games. Sharing the details of the incident, which took place a couple of months back, Akshay elucidated, "While you are playing, sometimes a message comes from there...Then a message came, Are you male ...Read More >
New Delhi: India has slammed Pakistan for excesses committed against civilians in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), calling for accountability for its "horrific" human rights violations. "We have seen reports on protests in several areas of Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir, including brutalities by Pakistani forces on innocent civilians," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during the weekly briefing on Friday. The unrest is a "natural consequence ...Read More >
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