Will highlight its ‘failure’ ahead of Lok Sabha elections

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has given additional charge to three IAS officers and one HCS officer with immediate effect. Sarban Singh, Commissioner and Secretary (Sports and Youth Affairs), Secretary (Cell for Proper ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation to implement a pilot project on community safe drinking water systems in select villages in the State in a phased ...

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president Suresh Pachouri has welcomed the UPA Government’s victory in Parliament on Tuesday saying that party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deserve full credit for ...

Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA), a centre of mathematics was inaugurated by the Chief Minister.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has ordered for Aska Harihar Swain’s expulsion from the party for voting in favour of the UPA government during the trust vote in ...

Rourkela: Higher sales volume, increase in special (value added) steel production, better operational efficiencies and higher interest earnings enabled the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) to achieve a profit (after tax) of Rs.1,835 ...

Vinoba Seva Pratisthan will organise a State-level youth convention on ‘Role and Responsibility of Youth’ at Vyasnagar Town Hall at Jajpur Road on August 9. ...

VISAKAHAPATNAM: The Amnesty International has appealed to the Chief Minister of Orissa to order an impartial inquiry into the allegation of torture in police custody of activists of four activists of Keonjhar Integrated Rural Development and ...

Sambalpur: The body of a medical student, believed to have been killed in a road accident, was retrieved from a canal near here on Tuesday, police said. The body of Deepankar Panigrahi of Berhampur, a third year student of VSS Medical College ...

BHUBANESWAR: Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA), a unique centre to encourage study of mathematics and putting the subject into practice, was inaugurated here on Wednesday. Although various programmes of the institute were started ...

BHUBANESWAR: The ruling Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance observed a day-long bandh in Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday to highlight their opposition to the reported demand of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president Shibu Soren for ...

Vibro cholerae bacteria stains found in diarrhoea patient

Plans to utilise indigenous technology developed by the scientists

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday gave only two weeks time to Cuttack Deputy Commissioner of Police S Praveen Kumar to set right the road traffic system of the Millennium city. Warning the police inspectors of Lalbagh and Bidanasi ...

The accused driving the vehicle at breakneck speed

Giving party ticket to him in 2004 polls a mistake, says Naveen

Kendrapara: A debt-ridden farmer has allegedly committed suicide on the outskirts of the district headquarters, a farmers’ body alleged on Wednesday. Unable to clear loans from money lenders, 54-year-old Ananta Charan Rout, a native of ...

BERHAMPUR: The pharmacists employed in different government hospitals and medical colleges in the State have threatened to go on indefinite mass leave from August 9.They have decided to take this drastic step protesting against the alleged ...

Govind Singh Gurjar sworn in Puducherry Lieutenant Governor

Orientation programme for college teachers held

"It will explain significance of the deal against the backdrop of power shortage"

PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry unit of All India Students’ Federation (AISF) on Wednesday flayed the government for the delay in finalising the allocation of seats in private medical colleges for students to be admitted through the ...

PUDUCHERRY: The Pondicherry Sportsmen Welfare Association on Tuesday said there were irregularities in selection of students under sports quota for admission to engineering courses through the Centralised Admission Committee ...

PUDUCHERRY: The Pondicherry Ministerial Staff Association on Wednesday announced that its members would stage a ‘dharna’ before the Chief Secretariat from 5 pm to 7 pm on Thursday in support of their demand for filling vacancies to ...

PUDUCHERRY: The Electricity Department has announced that there would be power interruption at eight areas in the town on Thursday from 9.30 am to 2.30 pm, owing to maintenance work at the HT feeder emanating from the Marapalam ...

Fundamental concepts of UN explained

Ludhiana: Two persons were killed when a passenger train ran over them near Dugri bridge between Ludhiana and Gill railway stations here on Wednesday. According to railway police, the victims were yet to be identified. They were trying ...

Batala: A minor girl was allegedly raped by youth at Chhotte Aulakh village under Srihargobindpur Police station. According to the police the girl was sitting in her grocery shop when a youth Sikandar took her in to his house on ...

Chandigarh: The Punjab Government on Monday announced that it will withdraw the 4 per cent entry tax on several items including dyes, chemicals and cotton, which would hit the State exchequer by Rs 150 crore . “We have decided ...

Kota: A constable has been arrested for allegedly molesting a woman living in Bhagat Singh Kachi Basti in Kota junction, police said on Wednesday. The woman alleged she had visited Dadhdevi Mataji Temple on Tuesday, accompanied by her ...

Jaipur: Ornaments and donation box worth lakhs of rupees were stolen by thieves from the famous Lord Ganesh temple in Brahampuri area of the walled city here on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. Three silver chatra, kundan, ...

JAIPUR: Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot has hailed the winning of the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by the United Progressive Alliance Government. “The people of the country wanted this,” he said. In a statement ...

They would help agriculturists during the next rabi season

JAIPUR: A day after the Manmohan Singh government won the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha, Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram indicated here that the government would try to seek the cooperation of parties outside the United Progressive ...

Dehra Dun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri on Wednesday announced free travel on Raksha Bandhan for all women of Himachal Pradesh in State roadways buses. “Women of our State are free to move free of cost on Raksha ...