Bhubaneswar, March 5 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to former Odisha chief minister Biju Patnaik on his 110th birth anniversary, recalling his passion towards furthering the progress of the eastern state. “On his birth anniversary today, I pay tributes to Shri Biju Patnaik Ji and remember his passion towards furthering the progress […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, March 5 The Congress picked an unlikely candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Himachal Pradesh: president of Kangra District Congress Committee, Anurag Sharma. Union minister Anand Sharma and former state Congress president Pratibha Singh and other party stalwarts were considered strong contenders for getting a Rajya […]
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Patna, March 5 JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar on Thursday announced that he will be contesting the Rajya Sabha polls, bringing the curtain down on his tenure as the longest-serving CM of Bihar. Kumar, who has been the CM since 2005, said the new government that will be formed in the state will have his full […]
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New Delhi, March 4 HK Dua, a distinguished journalist and a veteran of Indian public life who held the rare distinction of helming editorial operations at three of India’s leading newspapers, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 88. He breathed his last peacefully this afternoon at a private hospital, a member of his […]
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The North News New Delhi, March 3 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke to Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman and Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and expressed concern over attacks on their countries during the ongoing conflict in West Asia, officials said. In his telephonic conversations, Modi also […]
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The North News Chandigarh, March 3 Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday said the AAP government has brought down the debt-to-GSDP ratio by four percentage points to 44.47 per cent and also claimed it was spending 85 per cent of borrowings on servicing old debt raised by previous SAD-BJP and Congress regimes. Cheema […]
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BJP names 9 candidates for RS polls, party chief Nitin Nabin to contest from Bihar The North News New Delhi, March 3 BJP national president Nitin Nabin was on Tuesday nominated as the party’s candidate from Bihar for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released a list of nine […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, March 3 The Himachal Pradesh High Court has issued a notice to the state government over its decision to affiliate government schools with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and to introduce a separate teachers’ cadre along with a new selection examination. During a hearing in Shimla on […]
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Dubai, March 3 Airstrikes targeting an air base in southeastern Iran killed at least 13 Iranian troops there, local media reported. The semiofficial Tasnim news agency and the Hammihan daily newspaper reported the strike in Kerman, 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The Kerman Air Base is known to house military helicopters. […]
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The North News Chandigarh, March 3 Haryana has decided to comprehensively strengthen surveillance, reporting and treatment monitoring of viral hepatitis under the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme. The initiative will focus on enforceable compliance, real-time data integration and measurable outcomes to eliminate gaps in detection and treatment, Additional chief secretary, Health Department, Sumita Misra here […]
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