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Bhubaneswar: Board of Secondary Education, Odisha has announced an extension of the deadline for submitting application forms for the upcoming 2024 Higher School Certificate (HSC) and State Open School Certificate (SOSC) examinations. The new deadline for online application submissions is now October 5, 2023. This update was officially communicated in a press release issued Saturday. According to...

Bhubaneswar: AIIMS Bhubaneswar is going to start Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HPSCT) in the Medical Oncology/Hematology department for needy children suffering from cancer. Speaking at a special function organised to create awareness about childhood cancer, AIIMS Bhubaneswar Executive Director Dr. Ashutosh Biswas said, AIIMS Bhubaneswar has been rendering holistic, quality and affordable care to children with cancer...

Bengaluru: In a bid to further strengthen its presence in Karnataka, Texas-based technology conglomerate Dell is considering a fresh investment in its research and development (R&D) centre in Bengaluru, an official statement said Saturday. The Dell team comprising Michael Dundas of Global Manufacturing Operations and Technology, Alan Richey, Senior Vice President, Legal, and Tabrez Ahmad, Director, Asia...

Islamabad: Pakistan's top investigation agency Saturday declared former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi guilty in a case related to the alleged disclosure of state secrets, popularly known as the cipher case. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted the charge sheet against Khan, the chairman of the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and his deputy...

Hangzhou: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Aihika Mukherjee shocked world champion Chinese pair Chen Meng and Yidi Wang to enter the women's doubles semifinals, assuring India a historic table tennis medal at the Asian Games here Saturday. In the quarterfinals, Sutirtha and Aihika won 11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9 and the victory over World No. 2 Chinese duo is all...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Saturday forecast very heavy rainfall for Odisha over the next three days as the low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a well-marked system. Weather scientist Umashankar Dash of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar said that the well-marked low-pressure area is likely to move towards the northern Odisha...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank Saturday extended the special drive to withdraw Rs 2,000 bank notes from the system by another week, till October 7. The central bank said ever since it announced the move to withdraw Rs 2,000 notes May 19, Rs 3.42 lakh crore of such notes have been received into the system either by deposition...

New Delhi: The four-month monsoon season has ended with India receiving "normal" rainfall -- 820 mm against a long-period average of 868.6 mm -- with positive factors countering the effect of El Nino conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Saturday. Rainfall between 94 per cent and 106 per cent of the long-period average (LPA) is considered...

Washington: The US is on the brink of a federal government shutdown after hard-right Republicans in Congress rejected a longshot effort to keep offices open as they fight for steep spending cuts and strict border security measures that Democrats and the White House say are too extreme. Come midnight Saturday with no deal in place, federal workers...