On the eve of Diwali, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced a 25 per cent hike in the remuneration of persons employed through outsourcing agencies and on contract basis in various departments of the state government.This will benefit about 33,000 persons engaged in various departments of the Odisha government and the state will…Continue Reading
Junking all the trumpet blowing by the Opposition Congress over the bypoll results, BJP National Vice President Baijayant Panda on Wednesday said the clean sweep in Assam and NDA winning a majority of the seats at the hustings clearly show the whole-hearted support of people to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s developmental model of governance.The bypoll…Continue Reading
A Missouri teen broke with tradition by becoming his high school’s first male homecoming queen.Zachary Willmore, a senior at Rock Bridge High School in Rock Bridge, just outside Columbia, said he decided to run for homecoming queen instead of king after polling his social media followers. “They thought queen could look prettier on the sash,” he…Continue Reading
Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was speeding at 156 mph with twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system before he slammed into another car, killing that driver, officials said Wednesday.Ruggs was in a wheelchair and wearing a neck brace during his first appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court, where…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — China has accelerated its nuclear weapons production, expanded its missile program, and was worried the United States would start a war before the 2020 election, according to a new Pentagon report.The report also notes that then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper directed Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley to make a reassuring phone…Continue Reading
Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China’s new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totaling around 62 billion yuan ($9.7 billion), a senior Chinese central bank official said on Wednesday.However, Mu Changchun, the director-general of the digital currency institute of the People’s Bank of China, told Hong Kong’s “Fintech…Continue Reading
Americans are driving more recklessly, with deadly consequences. The best way to reverse the trend could be to let robots do the driving, provided the technology is rolled out safely. Why it matters: After decades of improvement, U.S. traffic deaths are climbing again, even though vehicles are safer than ever. An estimated 20,160 people died…Continue Reading
China is rapidly accelerating the expansion of its nuclear stockpile and is likely seeking to quadruple its number of nuclear warheads by 2030, according to the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on China’s military power.Why it matters: U.S. officials and experts have raised alarms at reports of China’s nuclear expansion and testing of advanced weapons…Continue Reading
The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up its diplomatic pressure on Iran ahead of a potential resumption of the nuclear talks.Why it matters: After months of contemplating how to respond to Iran’s foot-dragging, with talks now frozen since June, the Biden administration in recent days started taking steps that some of its European allies, Israel…Continue Reading
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