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Odisha becomes first state to roll out Energy Transition Policy: Deputy CM Singh Deo

Bhubaneswar, July 18 (UNI) Odisha has become the first state in India to implement a comprehensive energy transition policy, reaffirming its leadership in the national push
towards clean and sustainable energy, Deputy Chief Minister K. V. Singh Deo said today.
Speaking at a workshop on the Odisha Energy Transition Policy, Singh Deo, who also holds
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Bihar: Strict action ordered after lizard tail found in mid-day meal

19 Jul 2026 | 9:50 PM

Patna, Jul 19 (UNI) Bihar Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari today directed strict action against those responsible after a lizard's tail was allegedly found in a mid-day meal served at a government school in Gamharia block of Madhepura district.

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Amit Shah lays foundation stone for world's largest curd plant in Bengal

19 Jul 2026 | 9:50 PM

Kolkata, July 19 (UNI) union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the Amul Bengal Dairy Project, a Rs 700-crore integrated dairy facility in Howrah that is set to become the world's largest curd production plant.

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CID forms SIT after seizing six firearms; probe expands to Jamalpur ordnance factory link

19 Jul 2026 | 9:43 PM

Kolkata, July 19 (UNI) In a major breakthrough against suspected interstate arms trafficking, the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in a joint operation with Ashoknagar Police, arrested a woman and seized a cache of firearms, ammunition and cash from her possession in North 24-Parganas on Sunday.

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Shower of rose petals, sea of faith: Tarakeswar's Shravani Mela opens in spectacular new avatar

19 Jul 2026 | 9:41 PM

Hooghly, Jul 19 (UNI) Rose petals cascaded from a helicopter onto the revered Taraknath Temple and thousands of devotees below as chants of "Har Har Mahadev" echoed through the temple town, heralding the beginning of the centuries-old Shravani Mela at Tarakeswar on the first day of the Bengali month of Shravan.

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Shah inaugurates India's first language museum "Shabdalok" in Kolkata

19 Jul 2026 | 9:37 PM

Kolkata, July 19 (UNI) union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated "Shabdalok", the country's first museum dedicated to Indian languages, at the National Library here.

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