Tag: Cwc

Cuttack: In a bizarre incident, two journalists of OTV were beaten up mercilessly while covering a child marriage incident at Khalarda village under Sadar police limits in the district today. OTV’s Cuttack reporter Pravat Bisoyi, who has been critically injured in the attack, is undergoing treatment at SCB Medical College and Hospital here while camera […]

Jajpur: The district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Friday served a closure notice on a madrasa, which was running without registration, at Ahemadnagar near Byasanagart. Acting on the directive of the district collector, the members of the CWC on Thursday raided the madrasa. They handed over the 17 minor boys studying at the madrasa to […]

The city police detained the local manager of Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) here and started investigations after the Food Corporation of India (FCI) today filed an FIR in connection with large-scale rice irregularities in the city warehouse

Tauranga (New Zealand): India crushed minnows Papua New Guinea (PNG) by 10 wickets to register their second consecutive win in Group B of the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup here on Tuesday. Left-arm spinner Anukul Roy finished 5/14 as three-time champions India completed a facile 10-wicket victory which took them closer towards qualification for the Super […]

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) began a meeting here today to chart out a schedule for the election of the Congress President which will see elevation of Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to the party’s top post. The meeting was attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with […]

Khurda/Angul: Two infants were found dead while another was rescued in critical condition from two different places in the State on Tuesday. As per reports, Police recovered the bodies of two newborn boys from the backside of a hotel at Pitapalli on NH-16 in Khurda district Tuesday evening. Though the exact reason behind the death […]

Kendrapara: The Child Welfare Committee of Kendrapara district has initiated a probe to find out if a destitute woman had sold her newborn son to another woman for Rs 2,000. The mother of the infant had said she had handed over her one-day-old son yesterday to another woman, who was her neighbour, on the assurance […]

Bengaluru: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik does not want to create a bitter “India-Pakistan type conflict” between the state and Chhattisgarh over the Mahanadi river water dispute, his Industries Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said. Patnaik was ready to discuss the issue with his Chhattisgarh counterpart during a meeting convened by Union Water resources Minister Uma […]

Raipur: Amid an ongoing row over Mahanadi river with Odisha, Chhattisgarh Water Resources Minister Brijmohan Agrawal today asserted his state will continue with the projects approved by Central Water Commission (CWC) on the river. “The ongoing projects, approved by the CWC on Mahanadi river (in Chhattisgarh), will not be stopped,” Agrawal told PTI. Notably, Odisha […]

Malkangiri: As many as 22 minors including girls were rescued by the Childline officials while allegedly being trafficked to outside the State in Malkangiri district on Thursday. All the children belonged to Kurumapali village under Mathili block in the district, reports said. Acting on a tip off, officials of the Malkangiri Childline intercepted three vehicles […]

New Delhi: Amid speculation that Congress President Rahul Gandhi may offer to resign, a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is scheduled on Saturday to look into the reasons for the party’s Lok Sabha elections debacle and decide on its further course of action to take on the BJP, which has grown in strength over the […]

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday rejected offer by party President Rahul Gandhi to resign in the wake of the debacle in the Lok Sabha elections but he has been insisting that his resignation is accepted and has not withdrawn his offer to quit. The CWC called for a thorough introspection, complete […]

New Delhi: The Congress said on Monday that the CWC meeting on Saturday held a collective deliberation on the partys performance in the Lok Sabha polls instead of casting aspersions on the role or conduct of any specific individual and any “conjectures, speculations, insinuations, assumptions” in the media about its deliberations were “uncalled for and […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to be the party leader in the Lok Sabha and the post may go to someone else as it happened in the previous Lok Sabha, party sources said on Tuesday. But Gandhi is expected to be the CPP leader. Two senior Congress General Secretaries IANS spoke to […]

Raipur/Bhubaneswar: Twenty-six child labourers were rescued from the plant of popular biscuit brand Parle-G here, police said Saturday. A government task force on child labour had received a tip-off that minors were employed at Parle-G factory in Amasivni area, said Vidhansabha Police Station House Officer (SHO) Ashwani Rathore. The task force raided the factory Friday […]