Mumbai: Fourteen Naxals were killed Sunday in an encounter with the police in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, a senior official said. He said a team of C-60 commandos, a specialised combat unit of the Gadchiroli police, carried out the operation. “Fourteen...
Read moreBhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Sunday hit out at the BJP-led governments, at the Centre and in Chhattisgarh, accusing them of obstructing the flow of the Mahanadi river water into Odisha. Charging the BJP with being instrumental in depriving the...
Read moreBhubaneswar: The Congress will finalise the tickets for the 2019 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha within the next two months, the party’s Odisha in-charge Jitender Singh said here today. Singh along with newly appointed Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee...
Read moreCuttack: As the state continues to simmer in the wake of horrific rape of minors, incidents of rape of three minors and rape attempt on another in a single day in the district has raised serious questions regarding safety of...
Read moreBhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Saturday staged a two-hour (10 am to 12 pm) protest in front of nationalised banks across the state against the prevailing cash crunch in ATMs. In the capital city, members of the party’s...
Read moreNew Delhi: Buoyed by its success with senior citizens, the Indian Railways is set to extend its ‘Give it up’ scheme to include other concession holders to offset its nearly Rs 33,000-crore subsidy burden in annual passenger fares. The decision...
Read moreMumbai: Abu Salem, who is serving a life term for the 1993 Mumbai blasts had sought a parole of 45 days to get married. However, the parole application of the convict was rejected a second time by the Navi Mumbai...
Read moreNew Delhi: The country’s banks received an all-time high amount of fake currency and also detected an over 480 per cent jump in suspicious transactions post demonetisation, a first-ever report on dubious deposits made in the wake of demonetisation reveals....
Read moreindo-asian news service Mumbai, April 19: Fortis Healthcare Thursday decided to constitute an “expert advisory committee” to evaluate all binding proposals for fund infusion. The company’s Board in a regulatory filing with the BSE said while evaluating all the offers...
Read moreindo-asian news service Guwahati, April 19: In a significant decision, the Group of Ministers on Transport Thursday proposed a “one nation, one tax” formula to bring a harmony in motor vehicle taxes across different states. “One of the major grievances...
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Deus ex machina. The only thing that has saved Cape Town, the famed tourist destination in South Africa, from endless...
Filing Income Tax (I-T) returns is an annual ritual for many. Around this time every year, people find themselves headed...
India is on a new adventure, namely, to enter the global weapons market. The Make in India programme supposedly had...
Discipline and integrity were supposed to be the hallmarks of the bureaucracy when, 70 years ago, India stepped into its...
Nepal’s relations with India have not been seeing the best of times. This has been so ever since the exit...
After 20 long years, a Jodhpur court finally delivered its verdict on the Salman Khan 1998 blackbuck and chinkara poaching...
Good news is that the Union Government has taken a step back, and decided not to proceed with its just-announced...
Malkangiri: Despite restrictions imposed by the apex court, scores of illegal brick kilns are operating in the district, a report...
Read moreNew Delhi, April 1: At 462.12 million, India has the second highest number of internet users in the world after...
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