Ahead of his Saharsha rally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a big package at Ara for the development of Bihar and also took a dig at the state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for not utilising central funds. While inaugurating several projects of National Highways and skill development at Ara, Mr. Modi in a dramatic way declared a Rs. […]
» Read moreNEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee passed away on Tuesday morning at 10.51am. The President’s wife, Suvra Mukherjee, had been ill for some time. She was admitted to the hospital on Friday evening and had been brought to the hospital with a respiratory problem. A heart patient, she had been kept in the intensive care unit. In a […]
» Read moreA bomb blast in a busy tourist area of Bangkok has left 19 people dead, and injured at least 123. The bomb is believed to have been on a motorcycle and exploded just outside a Hindu shrine in the centre of the Thai capital. Officers examining the blast have said that of the confirmed 19 victims, 10 are Thai. Other […]
» Read moreNashik: The rocket has been finally fired succesfully and it’s only a fortnight’s wait before the flares are shot in succession into the sky to make it rain. After two failed attempts earlier this month, a rocket was successfully fired for cloud seeding demonstrations on Saturday at the drought-hit Saigaon village of Yeola taluka by Mumbai-based International School of Professional […]
» Read moreJakarta: An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia’s remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian nation. “The latest information is that the Trigana aircraft that lost contact has been found at Camp 3, Ok Bape district in the Bintang Mountains […]
» Read moreChief Minister Jayalalithaa, on Saturday, presented the first APJ Abdul Kalam award to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist N. Valarmathi, who led the team that successfully launched Radar Imaging Satellite RISAT-1 in 2012. Daughter of a government employee from Ariyalur, Ms. Valarmathi was presented a certificate, a cheque for Rs. 5 lakh and an eight-gram gold coin atthe Independence […]
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