Hyderabad: Protests by student groups, green activists and opposition parties intensified on Tuesday at the University of Hyderabad over the Telangana government’s action in bulldozing trees on 400 acres of land next to the campus for its auction.Activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and […]
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Washington: Jayanta ‘Jay’ Bhattacharya on Tuesday took over as the 18th Director of the US National Institutes of Health, which is the country’s premier medical research agency.Dr Bhattacharya is one of the senior-most Indian-Americans in the Donald Trump administration. He was nominated to the position in November and was confirmed by the US Senate on
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New Delhi: Indian women’s hockey team forward Vandana Katariya, who retired from the international circuit on Tuesday, revealed drawing inspiration from legends like Dhanraj Pillay, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Usain Bolt to keep herself upbeat during her 15-year-long career in the senior side.Vandana finished as the most-capped player in the history of Indian women’s hockey with
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New Delhi: Commuters traveling on National Highways and Expressways will now have to pay higher toll charges as the latest fee hike comes into effect today.The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) increased toll rates by an average of 4-5%, a revision implemented annually based on changes in the wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation. This
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Chandigarh: A Mohali court on Tuesday sentenced Christian preacher Bajinder Singh to life imprisonment in a 2018 rape case. The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Vikrant Kumar pronounced the verdict in the case where a woman alleged that the ‘Yeshu Yeshu Prophet’ had established non-consensual sexual relations with her on the pretext of
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New Delhi: Two more Indian Navy ships, the INS Karmuk and LCU 52, reached Yangon in Myanmar on Tuesday, with nearly 30 Tons of relief material. Two other naval vessels from India – the INS Satpura and INS Savitri – had reached Yangon on Monday with nearly 40 Tons of relief.This is part of the
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Rayagada:A 14 year old boy met with a tragic end in a road mishap at Paridagaon chowk under Kalyansingpur PS limits in Rayagada district today.The deceased has been identified as Suman kadrak.Sources said two minor boys of Patabandha village on a moped were proceeding to Ghodaghati village,hit a pseenger bus at Paridaguda chowk.As a result
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PARALAKHEMUNDI: The entire Odisha comes alive today to celebrate the Utkal divas,the special occasion.This year the saffron party in power in the state also drawn several programmes including`Odia Paksha`,a fortnight long celebration.But,the scenario is different in boardering villages of Odisha,as they are sandwiched between Odisha and Andhra pradesh territory dispute.The neighbouring Andhra Pradesh’s intrusion into
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Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a junior engineer and three former engineers of Indian Railways, posted at Rajgangpur in Odisha, for alleged forgery.The case was registered on Monday on the direction of the Lokpal of India. The FIR also mentions a construction company among the accused, while keeping the identity of
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Guwahati: Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma, the titular king of Tripura, has called upon the Centre to slice away the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) from Bangladesh, in response to Muhammad Yunus’ appeal to China to get involved in the affairs of India’s northeastern states.Yunus – chief adviser to the interim government in Bangladesh – visited
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