Bangladesh YouTuber held for taking pics inside Puri temple
Puri: A 23-year-old YouTuber from Bangladesh was arrested here for allegedly taking photos of Shree Jagannath temple's sanctum sanctorum on phone, in violation of the ban imposed on gadget use at the shrine, and posting those on social media, a...
Traders in poll-bound Padampur call off bandh after talks
Traders in poll-bound Padampur call 12-hr bandh after IT, GST raids
Rs 2.77cr Chaberi bridge project in limbo
Education in shambles in schools of Rayagada
Bangladesh YouTuber held for taking pics inside Puri temple
Puri: A 23-year-old YouTuber from Bangladesh was arrested here for allegedly taking photos of Shree Jagannath temple's sanctum sanctorum on phone, in violation of the ban imposed on gadget use at the shrine, and posting those on social media, a...
Traders in poll-bound Padampur call off bandh after talks
Bargarh: Traders at Padampur have called off a 12-hour bandh in the poll-bound town earlier slated for Tuesday following discussions with officials. The dusk-to-dawn bandh had been called after back-to-back raids a day before by the Income Tax and GST...
Traders in poll-bound Padampur call 12-hr bandh after IT, GST raids
Bargarh: Traders at Padampur have called for a 12-hour bandh in the poll-bound town Tuesday following back-to-back raids a day before by the Income Tax and GST departments. By-elections to Padampur are due December 5. The IT department raided the...
Rs 2.77cr Chaberi bridge project in limbo
Dasmantpur: For the past five years, construction of a bridge project across Chaberi river with an estimated cost of Rs 2.77 crore has remained confined to its foundational level in Dasmantpur area of Koraput district. Owing to apathy of the...
Education in shambles in schools of Rayagada
Rayagada: School education has gone haywire in Rayagada with the posts of block education officers (BEO) in seven out of 11 blocks of the district lying vacant. As there are not enough BEOs, the four BEOs are forced to manage...
Koraput tribal women keep traditional rice variety alive
Koraput: Odisha’s near-extinct Kala Jeera rice is making a comeback, thanks to the tribal women who are cultivating and marketing it to the outside world from Machhara village in Koraput district with the help of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF),...
‘Need good judges’, SC declines to entertain plea for doubling the judges
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to entertain a plea seeking to double the number of judges in the high courts and trial courts, saying more judges does not mean more disposal, instead good judges are required. A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justice P.S....
Read moreFormer ISI chief Lt General Faiz Hamid decides to retire early: Reports
Islamabad: Lieutenant General Faiz Hamid, the former ISI chief and one of the top military officers of Pakistan, has opted to seek an early retirement, days after he was shortlisted but not appointed as the Army chief, according to media reports Tuesday. Gen Hamid was one of the six senior-most generals shortlisted by the General Headquarters (GHQ) for the post of the Chief of Army Staff. The list was sent to...
Read moreBSF shoots down drone along India-Pak border in Amritsar
Amritsar: The Border Security Force has shot down a drone that sneaked into the Indian side from Pakistan in Punjab's Amritsar district, officials said Tuesday. The BSF personnel fired at the drone Monday night after they noticed it entering the Indian territory near Chaharpur village, around 40 km north of Amritsar city, they said. During the search operation, the BSF recovered a partially-damaged hexacopter, an unmanned aerial vehicle with six rotors....
Read moreWorld’s largest volcano in Hawaii erupts after nearly 4 decades
Honolulu: The world's largest active volcano, the Mauna Loa in Hawaii, has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years, authorities said. The eruption began at Moku'aweoweo, the volcano's summit caldera, at 11.30 p.m. Sunday, the first since 1984, Xinhua news agency quoted the US National Park Service as saying in an update Monday. The volcano's alert level has also been upgraded from an "advisory" to a "warning" -- the...
Read moreLowest Covid cases recorded in country since April 2020
New Delhi: India logged 215 new coronavirus infections, the lowest since April 2020, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 4,46,72,068, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Tuesday. The active cases further declined to 4,982, while the death toll climbed to 5,30,615 with one fatality being reported from Delhi, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while...
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Mumbai: The rupee slipped 3 paise to close at 81.71 (provisional) against the US dollar Tuesday as rising crude oil prices in the international market weighed on forex market sentiment. However, a firm trend in domestic equities and a weak American currency overseas capped the losses in the local unit, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign...
Court junks ex-Congress MLA’s bail plea in cop manhandling case
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Y S Sharmila detained on way to T’gana CM’s residence for protest
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‘Need good judges’, SC declines to entertain plea for doubling the judges
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to entertain a plea seeking to double the number of judges in the high courts and trial courts, saying more judges does not mean more disposal, instead good judges are required. A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justice P.S. Narasimha told the petitioner, advocate Ashwini Upadhyay,...
Anupam Kher weighs in on ‘The Kashmir Files’ row, attacks ‘#Toolkit gang’
New Delhi: It may have been an Israeli director and screenwriter, invited by the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to head its jury, whose criticism of The Kashmir Files has stirred a hornet's nest, but the Vivek Agnihotri movie's lead actor, Anupam Kher, used the opportunity to attack the #Toolkit gang. Tweeting in Hindi, Kher said:...
WhatsApp launches ‘forward media with caption’ feature on iOS
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has launched the 'forward media with caption' feature on iOS, which provides users the ability to forward images, videos, GIFs and documents, with a caption. After downloading the latest WhatsApp for iOS 22.23.77 update from the App Store, some users were able to access the new feature, reports WABetaInfo. Users have...
Plaint filed against Israeli filmmaker for calling ‘The Kashmir Files’ vulgar
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Patnaik meets Kulta, Bhulia Samaj members ahead of Padampur by-poll
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik met members of the Kulta and Bhulia Samaj, who are dominant in Padampur sub-division of Bargarh, ahead of the assembly by-poll there December 5 and assured them of meeting their demands. Patnaik assured the Kulta Samaj members Monday of granting a piece of land at Puri and assistance for the construction...
