World famous sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik created on Thursday the world’s largest Santa Claus sculpture on Puri Beach with the aid of his students studying at the Sudarshan Sand Art Institute. Pattnaik is all set to smash in order to join the Limca Book of Records with the giant Santa Claus measuring 45 feet high and 50 feet wide. Officially, it is still not known if Pattnaik created the largest sand art to break the Guinness world record of Ted Siebert of the United States, who created the highest sand castle of 45 foot 10.25 inches. But Indian Sand Artist’s…
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in With the detention of 13 more Myanmar Rohingya Muslims in Assam, a total of 35 Myanmarites, which include women and girls, have been apprehended for illegally entering North East India for the past month, officials said Thursday. An Assam police officer in Karimganj said that 13 Rohingyas, believed to be refugees fleeing their camps in south-east Bangladesh, were held on Wednesday from Churaibari in southern Assam. According to the police, foreign nationals, including six children and three women, were detained on a Guwahati night bus from Agartala. Adult men and woman inmates are aged 20 and 33 years of…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be visiting Guwahati and Imphal this weekend during a two-day trip starting on Saturday. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader will allocate financial grants to 8,000 Namghars (traditional Vaishnavite monasteries of Assam) under the Assam Darshan programme in Guwahati. The Home Secretary will also lay the foundation stones for the construction of ‘Batadrava Than’ as a cultural and tourist destination, the New Medical College in Guwahati (2nd medical college in the city) and nine law colleges to be founded across Assam. On Sunday, the second day of his visit, Shah would lay the…
India will soon end its first driverless metro train in December with Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging it off on the Delhi Metro Magenta Line. The train will be on the Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden section of the Delhi Metro Rail Company (DMRC). It is believed that the driverless trains would run on the Magenta Line and finally on the Pink Line, which were made as part of Phase III of the DMRC. In September 2017, the Delhi Metro began testing its new ‘driverless trains’ on the 20-km section of the Pink Line. Notably, the line has yet to be commissioned…
https://twitter.com/naralokesh/status/1342039720549732352?s=20 Major clashes erupted between the supporters of two political leaders of the Rayalseema district of Andhra Pradesh, YSRCP Tadipatri MLA Kethireddy Pedda Reddy and TDP ex-MP JC Diwakar Reddy, in the latter’s home. The followers of all the leaders peeled stones at each other and even torched cars. The violence reportedly broke out after a few remarks from the social media about the ruling YSRCP MLA allegedly posted by supporters of JC Diwakar Reddy. MLA Kethireddy Pedda Reddy himself led the attack in the presence of the police, and when he heard about it, JC Diwakar Reddy rushed to…
In a strong drive for education, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday accepted a post-matrical scholarship of 59,000 crore for more than four crore Scheduled Caste (SC) in the next five years. The cabinet authorised a combined expenditure of 59,048 crore. The central government would invest 60% of the initiative, valued at 35,534. The remainder will be supported by the government of the state. “This removes the current ‘committed responsibility’ regime and enhances the central government’s participation in this vital scheme. The Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Caste students requires students to take any post-matric course from class 11 onwards,…
A confrontation between the terrorists and the security forces broke out in the northern Kashmir district of Baramulla on Thursday morning, officials said. The encounter took place in the Kreeri district after security forces had bundled off the area and conducted a search operation on the basis of detailed intelligence on the involvement of terrorists. When security forces blew up on the location where the terrorists were hiding, they came under a huge amount of fire that caused the encounter. “The meeting began in the Wanigam Payeen Kreeri area of Baramulla. The police and armed services are at work,” the police…
Bollywood veteran Dharmendra was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by the State of New Jersey in the United States, the Joint Parliamentary Resolution passed by the Senate and the General Assembly. Both houses of the Legislature approved a resolution honouring the actor’s immeasurable contribution to Hindi Cinema over the course of his six-decade career and over 300-odd films in which he starred. Acknowledging the award, Dharmendra thanked Bollywood Insider and said, “I am extremely happy with this honour and proud to receive this one-of-a-kind award.” The award was awarded to the veteran actor through a zoom function hosted by Bollywood…
The Prime Minister of Moldova, Ion Chicu, resigns, opening the way for early parliamentary elections. Chicu declared his decision at a press conference on Wednesday shortly before formally submitting his resignation, along with outgoing President Igor Dodon and Parliament Speaker Zinaida Greceanai, Xinhua news agency reported. The Prime Minister of Moldova, Ion Chicu, tendered his resignation, opening the way for early parliamentary elections. Chicu declared his decision at a press conference on Wednesday shortly before formally submitting his resignation, along with outgoing President Igor Dodon and Parliament Speaker Zinaida Greceanai, Xinhua news agency reported. He added that on the day…
Union Sports and Youth Minister Kiren Rijiju flagged “Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan” a 917 km long river rafting expedition and a public outreach initiative in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, on Wednesday. Rijiju said in a tweet, “The biggest river of our country, the mighty Brahmaputra, is known as Siang in Arunachal Pradesh. It reaches our beloved country India near Gelling. Joins ‘Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan’ at Tuting arranged by the Ministry of Jal Shakti with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & NDRF.” The Union Minister launched a month-long expedition, coordinated by the Brahmaputra Board under the Union Jal Shakti Ministry and…