Rourkela (Odisha): Table-toppers Tamil Nadu Dragons held their nerve in the final quarter and notched up a 3-2 win over Delhi SG Pipers in an exciting Hockey India League (HIL) match here Monday. Tomas Domene struck as early as the second minute to put the Pipers ahead in the game. But Jip Janssen opened the scoring for...

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA P. Kaushik Reddy was arrested Monday for creating a ruckus and his alleged misbehaviour with Jagtial MLA M. Sanjay Kumar during District Review Committee (DRC) meeting in Karimnagar Sunday. A team of Karimnagar police arrested Kaushik Reddy in Hyderabad when he was returning home after attending a programme on a television...

Harrisburg: The bid by Japan's Nippon Steel to buy US Steel may have a new lease on life after the Biden Administration extended a deadline for the Japanese steelmaker to abandon plans to acquire the storied Pittsburgh company after President Joe Biden blocked the deal. The new deadline, now in mid-June, was viewed by US Steel —...

Chennai: Actor Ravi, better known as Jayam Ravi after the phenomenal success of his film Jayam, has urged that he be addressed as Ravi Mohan or simply as Ravi from now on and that people stop calling him Jayam Ravi as he was known earlier. In a statement on Pongal eve, Ravi said, “From this day forward,...

New Delhi: Union IT and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Monday expressed "disappointment" over a recent claim made by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking on Joe Rogan's podcast, Zuckerberg suggested that "incumbents basically lost every single election in 2024", making an indirect reference to India. Zuckerberg's comments on the podcast reflected his...

1-Odissi dance art adorns the concrete flyover pillars at Jharapada in Bhubaneswar 2-On the eve of Pushyabhishek Purnima, the trinity at the Jagannath Mandir in Chandni Chowk dons the Debaviseka Besha   3-Shoppers buy kites ahead of Makar Sankranti in Balubazar, Cuttack

New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Monday successfully conducted the field evaluation trials of the indigenously developed missile 'Nag Mk 2'. According to the Ministry of Defence, this is a third-generation 'Anti-Tank Fire-and-Forget Guided Missile.' The trials were successfully conducted at the Pokhran Field Range. During the trials, the missile demonstrated its precision by...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha and main opposition Biju Janata Dal Monday engaged in a war of words over the alleged conversion of 'Sankha Bhawan', the BJD party headquarters in Bhubaneswar, into a restaurant. Senior BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan took a dig at the opposition BJD for allegedly running a restaurant at its headquarters...

Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inauguration of the strategically important Z-Morh Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Ganderbal district has been met with widespread praise from residents, who expressed gratitude for the significant improvement in connectivity and its potential to boost tourism in the region. Resident Manzoor Ahmad shared his excitement about the tunnel's impact, particularly in...

Dakar (Senegal): At least 40 farmers were killed in an attack by Muslim militants in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, a government official said Monday. The attack Sunday was suspected to have been carried out by extremists from the Boko Haram group and its breakaway faction that is loyal to the Islamic State group in Borno's Dumba community,...