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Bhubaneswar: In order to ensure timely payment of wages to workers under MGNREG scheme, the state government has requested the Centre to release pending amount of over Rs 1088 crore soon. In a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi, chief…

Mumbai: Raj Kundra has gone off social media. The image of actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband took a battering after he was arrested in a pornography racket-related case in July. He has been keeping a low profile since being granted bail in…

New Delhi: Moral policing around what women should wear and how dressing up by women should be portrayed seems to have become the order of the day with a string of ads being withdrawn almost every other day. However, women are not shying…

New Delhi: The number of new coronavirus cases in the country has been below 20,000 for 24 straight days. However, some states are contributing the maximum number of daily new Covid-19 cases to India’s overall tally amidst the festival…

Mumbai: Aryan Khan could not reunite with his family on the day his bail order was passed. He had to spend another night in Arthur Road jail. We were told the documentation for his release was not done on time. However, the real reason has…

Kochi: Miss Kerala 2019 winner, Ansi Kabeer, and runner-up Anjana Shajan died in an accident near Vytilla here on Sunday night. The incident occurred at around 1 am in front of Holiday Inn on the Ernakulam Bypass. They died on the spot…

New Delhi: Believe it or not, the government has freed up space equivalent to four Rashtrapati Bhavans in the massive cleanliness drive that ended on October 31. Around 8.06 lakh square feet of space has been freed by weeding out 13.73 lakh…

New Delhi: Following the Madhya Pradesh minister’s threat to send the cops after him, designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee pulled promotional material for its mangalsutra collection. “In the context of making heritage and culture a dynamic…

New Delhi: India has urged the developed nations that have “enjoyed the fruits of energy” to reach net zero faster so that emerging economies use some “carbon space” to drive growth. ‘Net zero emissions’ is to achieve an overall balance…

Mumbai: The advertisement of Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s new mangalsutra collection has generated  a lot of heat. Now, Madhya Pradesh’s Home minister Narottam Mishra has threatened to take legal action against the celebrated fashion designer if…