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The Broadcast Engineering Consultant India Ltd (BECIL) has released a notification to fill up a total of 2,684 vacancies. For skilled and unskilled manpower posts, candidates are required to hold ITI diploma and pass Class VIII, respectively. For the skilled manpower positions, BECIL will recruit 1,336 people. Interested candidates are required to apply online on […]

Mumbai: India vice-captain Rohit Sharma feels the team could not deliver as a unit during their 18-run semifinal loss to New Zealand in the World Cup. “We failed to deliver as a team when it mattered, 30 minutes of poor cricket yesterday & that snatched away our chance for the cup,” Rohit tweeted. Personally, the […]

New Delhi: Following isolation of the Congress in Goa and Jammu & Kashmir recently, Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy posted a tweet on Friday, saying democracy will weaken if BJP is left as the single party in the country. Through the tweet, Swamy also suggested West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to take over as […]

Bhubaneswar: Three minor inmates of state-run residential schools have been sexually exploited this year, Odisha minister Jagannath Saraka told the assembly on Friday, insisting that the girls were abused when they had gone home on leave. Speaker S N Patro, on July 2, had asked the minister to issue a statement in the House after […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter is teasing its 321 million global users with an upcoming app redesign aimed at helping users see what’s happening faster. “A whole new Twitter is coming. New features and a new look are launching soon. Bookmarks, account switching, dark mode and so much more – before long, you’ll be able […]

London: Fast rising tennis player Alison Riske, who is slated to tie the knot with Anand Amritrajs son Stephen Amritraj after the Wimbledon, underlined her potential when she gave Serena Williams a run for her money in the quarterfinal of the grass court event. Riske and Stephen are expected to get hitched on July 20 […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019 with a voice vote to establish a central university and a tribal university in Andhra Pradesh. The bill, which also seeks an amendment to the Central Universities Act, 2009, was introduced by Minister for Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal on Monday. […]

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) today announced the results of Civil Service Preliminary Examination 2019. Candidates can visit the official website of the UPSC – www.upsc.gov.in to find their results. In the next step, candidates those who have cleared the preliminary exam are needed to apply in the Detailed Application Form (DAF) […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave tips to the women MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on meaningful participation in legislative business and advised them how they can contribute in the policy making process. “He met us in groups. One group comprised women MPs below 45 years. The other consisted of […]

Mumbai: Actor Vivek Anand Oberoi, who often gets into trouble for his posts on social media, has once again got slammed by netizens. Vivek on Friday took to Twitter and posted a GIF for India cricket team’s fans. In the GIF, an Indian fan is seen walking down the street thinking a lady walking towards […]

Mumbai: Indian markets closed lower on Friday following Asian markets which slid as the second largest economy China reported trade data. Markets were choppy throughout the day ahead of India’s key macro-data release. The S&P BSE Sensex closed 86.88 points lower at 38,736.23 while the Nifty declined by 30.40 points or 0.26 per cent to […]

Cuttack: Justice M M Das Commission of Enquiry, probing the chit fund scam in Odisha for over four years now, on Friday submitted its seventh interim report to the State government. Justice Das told reporters here that the fresh interim report contains the enquiry conducted by the Commission from January 1, 2019 to May 31, […]

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari Friday presented the first Special Supplementary Statement of Expenditure for 2019-20 in the Assembly for recoupment of advance from the Odisha Contingency Fund (OCF). The minister said the special supplementary budget is required as advance of Rs 1443.1244 crore sanctioned from the OCF at the end of 2018-19, remained un-recouped […]

New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni may enter politics after retiring from cricket and is likely to start his new innings in team Narendra Modi. With much speculation rife about whether MSD will hang up his boots after the recent World Cup semifinal loss to New Zealand, politics appears to be the new frontier for Captain […]

Mumbai: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have pulled out nearly Rs 3,000 crore after the Budget proposed a higher surcharge on the super-rich impacting most FPIs. In just 6 sessions since the Union Budget was proposed, FIIs offloaded Rs 2,937.53 crore worth of shares. Institutional investors play a dominant role in day-to-day market movement in India. […]