People take a dip at Mahanadi river near Cuttack's Tulasipur to get relief from sizzling heat   Cuttack streets wear a deserted look amid scorching heat   Flock of pigeons being fed paddy at Cuttack's Buxi Bazar area     Broken concrete stairs of Gadagadia Ghat at Bali Jatra lower ground in Cuttack yet to be repaired...

Balasore: Special Judge POCSO Ranjan Kumar Sutar Thursday convicted a rape accused and sentenced him to 20 years of Rigorous Imprisonment with a penalty of Rs 5,000. The court further ordered two more years of RI in case of default in paying the fine amount. According to the prosecution Tanmay Dhopal, the convict of Bishnupur village under...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) will provide economy meals at nine important stations across its jurisdiction in the summer. ECoR sources here Thursday said economy meals are being provided to passengers at Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Titilagarh, Balangir, Kantabanji, Palasa, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, and Srikakulam Railway Stations. To ensure easy access, these meals will be available at counters...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD in Odisha has readied two specially-designed buses for Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to tour the state during the campaign trail, party leaders said Thursday. Patnaik, who kicked off the party's campaign from his home turf Hinjili in Ganjam district Wednesday, is slated to address 36 rallies across the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in...

New Delhi: The senior national selectors are likely to meet this weekend in Mumbai to name the 15-member Indian squad for the ICC T20 World Cup, scheduled to be played in the West Indies and the USA later this year, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) sources told IANS. The ICC has set a deadline...

New Delhi: Hackers have attacked Indian organisations on average 2,444 times per week in the last six months, compared to 1,151 attacks per organisation globally, a new report revealed Thursday. According to the cyber security platform provider Check Point Software, at present, over 90 per cent of attacks on companies originate from malicious emails. In the last...

Hyderabad: Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Faf du Plessis won the toss and opted to bat against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their IPL match here Thursday. For SRH, Jaydev Unadkat came in for Washington Sundar, while RCB fielded the same team. Bottom-placed RCB are on a six-match losing streak, while SRH has won their last four games to be...

New Delhi: Upping the ante against the Congress on the 'inheritance tax' issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday launched another scathing attack on the grand old party, saying it was former PM Rajiv Gandhi who abolished the inheritance law "to save their own interests" after the demise of his mother Indira Gandhi. Addressing a series of election...

New Delhi: As many as 1,202 candidates, including prominent faces such as Rahul Gandhi, Om Birla and Hema Malini, will try their electoral luck in phase two of the Lok Sabha elections Friday. Polling is scheduled from 7am in 88 constituencies across 13 states and Union territories in this phase. The remaining five phases of the polls...

Koraput: The annual income of Congress's Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka, who is seeking re-election for a second consecutive term, shrank by around 62 per cent to Rs 9.60 lakh in the last financial year as against when he was first elected in 2019. Ulaka's annual income in 2018-19 was Rs 24.88, according to his election affidavit. However,...