21 girls rescued from Puri rly station
Puri district administration officials on Wednesday rescued as many as 21 girls from the Puri railway station while they were being trafficked to Kolkata to work in a prawn factory. Three brokers were also detained in this connection. The brokers were identified as Babaji Behera (42) of Arakhakuda, Upendra Babu...
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less than 1% foreign tourists visit Odisha
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Odisha Govt fails to break deadlock with traders
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Judicial probe report on Pipili rape, murder submitted to Govt
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Opp seeks Sub-Collector summoned, stalls Assembly
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Govt declares Ambedkar holiday
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Congress concern over 'decline' in U'khand's political image
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CM, MlA Navprabhat spreading misinformation, allege Munna Singh
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Allegations over appointment of Badrinath MlA's wife
The BJP has alleged that during the period of political uncertainty faced by the Congress in Uttarakhand, the wife of the Badrinath MlA was appointed as vice chairperson of the Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee evidently to appease the MlA. Submitting a memorandum to the State Governor Krishan Kant Paul, BJP...
'March 29 ruling by HC has cleared that Speaker was wrong'
Buoyed by the High Court single bench’s March 29 order enabling the nine dissident Congress MlAs, disqualified by the Assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal under the anti-defection law, State BJP in-charge Shyam Jaju said on Wednesday that it had vindicated his party’s stance of the illegitimacy of the Speaker’s action....
Search for 8 persons feared being swept away still on
Uttarakhand police are yet to trace eight persons who are feared swept away in rivers at two different districts over the past five days. SDRF, water police and local police are still engaged in tracing the missing in the rivers in Tehri and Pithoragarh districts. However, a body was recovered ...
Asia's biggest Devasthal optical telescope cost 150 cr
Asia’s biggest 3.6-m Devasthal optical telescope under Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital was technically activated jointly by PM Narendra Modi and the PM of Belgium, Charles Michel, remotely from Brussels while the Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Harshvardhan was present at Devasthal. The 3.6...
25,000 devotees participate in Parikrama
Thousands of followers of Udaseen Sect founded by Guru Ram Rai participated in the customary ceremony of Nagar Parikrama on Wednesday. The major roads of the State capital were immersed in religious fervor and festivity on the day as the people jostled past each other to have a glimpse of...
Retrofitted Doon smart city plan to cover major landmarks
The area covered in the retrofitting proposal for Dehradun smart city will be expanded to include areas excluded earlier, including Gandhi Park, Parade Ground, Pavilion Ground, Secretariat, Municipal Corporation of Dehradun and Doon Hospital, among other localities. However, the lack of public discipline and disregard for civic sense responsible for encroachment...
Police recover body of missing father and one daughter, no clue of other daughter
With the father and his two daughters reported missing since March 27, the body of the father was found near Birla Ghat in Ganga canal on Wednesday morning while one of his daughters’ was found by the Haridwar police roaming in the Upper Bazar and the other one aged 9...
