Migrants from Ganjam district working in Surat remembered at the time of every election in Odisha. This impending Panchayat Poll is no different. Three years after the general election, the villages in Ganjam district have once again gone into election frenzy. Amidst these activities, another common scene of hundreds of Ganjam residents living in Surat returning to…Continue Reading
Senior BJP leaders of the likes of Dharmendra Pradhan, Baijayant Panda and Sambit Patra who have been vested with the responsibility of other states in the country by the party are finding it difficult to physically campaign for the upcoming Panchayat polls in their home state.As per reports, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been…Continue Reading
Topographically separated southern and western Odisha appear all set to get connected by a railway network. A new line will be laid up from Gopalpur to Sambalpur and for it, which has already been approved by the Central government, a token amount of Rs 1crore has been allocated in the recently announced Railways Budget. The most important…Continue Reading
A woman lawyer of Allahabad High Court, on Friday, threatened to immolate herself with her three-year-old son outside the Supreme Court if action is not taken against the two men, who allegedly gang-raped her for years.The victim, Gayatri Singh claimed that she was sexually assaulted by RJD MLA Gulab Singh and senior IAS officer Sanjiv…Continue Reading
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, died when he detonated an explosive device during a US military raid in Syria that aimed to kill or capture him, a Pentagon official said.On Wednesday night, an IS deputy and some of al-Qurayshi’s family members were also killed when the latter…Continue Reading
In what looked like a scene out of a movie, the newlywed bride and groom arrived at the Alandur Zonal office in Chennai, straight from their wedding venue and the groom filed his nomination to contest the polls. It was not something that was intended or staged. Two very important events in 33-year old Vinoth…Continue Reading
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) manifesto for the upcoming Goa Assembly Elections will be released by Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari in Panaji on Sunday. On the same day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a virtual rally at 20 locations in the North Goa district at 4:30 pm, as per an official statement from…Continue Reading
A joint team of scientists from Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology and HCG Cancer centre have identified 114 genetic variants which cause oral cancer in humans. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology, has also revealed key genetic signatures that can predict survival in oral cancer patients with over 90 per cent…Continue Reading
Curdi was formerly a thriving village community with approximately 600 families in the South Goa district. It is nestled among the Western Ghats, with the Salaulim river running through it. But that was all in the past because the lovely hamlet vanished beneath the waves. Since then, it has been a ghost town. It spends…Continue Reading
Cops are offering a “special” Valentine’s Day offer this year. Getty Images/iStockphoto Roses are red, violets are blue — as are the police lights coming for you! A police department in Georgia has endorsed an empowering alternative to the romanticized traditions of Valentine’s Day. As millions of couples exchange flowers, chocolate and others gifts, the…Continue Reading