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NEW DELHI: Even as former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday for questioning for the second successive day, former Union minister and senior party leader P Chidambaram posed four questions to the BJP. In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said, “Will the learned spokespersons of the BJP please answer […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand state government tabled the annual budget of over Rs 65,000 crore for the financial year 2022-2023 on Tuesday at Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in Dehradun. Prem Chand Agarwal, state finance minister, in his 122-minute budget speech, outlined the salient features of the budget. “The budget is all inclusive with an aim of ‘Sabka Sath […]

NEW DELHI: While we all love our summer vacation, the West Bengal government’s decision to extend the summer vacation for both primary and secondary boards evokes only mixed reactions from teachers, parents and even the students. Bengal’s School Education Department extended the summer vacation keeping in mind the heatwave condition prevailing in the state. In […]

NEW DELHI: While many of us cherished the ‘fresh air’ and ‘a clear sky’ during the lockdown days in 2020, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) burst the bubble of myth. The EPIC India report stated that India remained one of the most polluted countries in South East Asia and the […]

CUTTACK: There is an old maxim, “A week is a long time in politics,” which signifies the uncertain and dynamic character of the field. However, at least on the face of it, the political firmament of Odisha seems frozen in time ever since Biju Janata Dal’s Naveen Patnaik became the chief minister of the state […]