Policy & Politics

Bhubaneswar: Amid the countrywide uproar over the steep hike in fuel prices, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday hoped that the situation will stabilise...

Bhubaneswar:  Three legislators of the opposition Congress on Tuesday reached the Odisha Assembly complex here on bicycles as a mark of protest against the rising fuel prices. Talking to mediapersons,...

Kolkata: If you thought an over two-km-long saffron wave across the streets of the Bengal capital was a Fit India run, you weren’t much away from reality. The ‘Run for...

Puducherry: The Congress government in Puducherry collapsed on Monday after losing a majority vote in the Assembly, leading Chief Minister V Narayanasamy to resign. After two exits on the eve...

New Delhi: After Metro man E Sreedharan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing Olympian and former athlete, PT Usha, to make inroads into Kerala ahead of the elections in...

New Delhi: The Union government is working on framing new rules and laws to tackle and manage social media, said senior BJP leader Ram Madhav. “Social media is so powerful...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday urged the NITI Aayog to conduct national-level examinations with a focus on equality for the selection of meritorious students. Speaking at the virtual...

Kolkata: Police produced the general secretary of Bengal BJP Yuva Morcha, Pamela Goswami, and two others in a Kolkata court on Saturday in connection with a narcotics case. According to...

New Delhi: The Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare on Friday appealed to the medical community and frontline workers to take the COVID-19 vaccine. “I humbly and strongly appeal...

Kolkata: Tension is brewing at Birpara tea garden in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri with around 1.300 workers staging an agitation against alleged takeover of the garden by Merico Agro Industries. The...