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Kendrapara: Police have launched an inquiry into allegations of custodial torture of a woman and her son by personnel of the Talachua Marine Police Station in Odisha's Kendrapara district, an officer said Wednesday. Kendrapara Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kataria said Wednesday that he had personally visited the police station to look into the matter. The SP said...

Bhubaneswar: National Students' Union of India (NSUI) activists Wednesday protested outside the residence of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, demanding his resignation over the ongoing NEET paper leak controversy. Members from NSUI, the student wing of Congress, took out a 'mashaal' (torch) march from ATM Square in Niladri Vihar towards Pradhan's residence in the nearby area. When...

Bhubaneswar: Widespread thunderstorm and rain brought relief from sweltering heat in several parts of Odisha Wednesday, even as 12 towns in the state recorded temperatures of 42 degrees Celsius or above. Thunderstorms along with rain, lightning and gusty wind occurred in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Bonai, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Boudh, Keonjhar, Baripada, Balasore and some other places in the...

Kendrapara: Two road construction workers were killed and two others injured after a pickup van in which they were travelling overturned in Odisha's Kendrapara district Wednesday, police said. The accident happened near Mugakani village in the Rajnagar police station area around 4.30 pm, when the workers were returning home, they said. The pickup van skidded off the...

Bhubaneswar: ABVP general secretary Virendra Singh Solanki Wednesday said the student organisation will continue its fight against urban Naxalism and discrepancies prevailing in the education sector. Speaking at the meeting of ABVP's Central Working Committee, Solanki said, At a time when Bharat is emerging as a global leader, ABVP continues to work through constructive movements and struggles...

Guwahati: The first session of the 16th Assam Legislative Assembly, during which the important 'Uniform Civil Code, Assam, Bill 2026' was passed, concluded Wednesday. Speaker Ranjeet Kumar Dass, in his remarks at the end of the proceedings, said the five-day session witnessed several important events, including the oath-taking of the new MLAs and the governor's speech. On...

Mullanpur: Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins won toss and elected to bowl against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League Eliminator in Mullanpur, Punjab, Wednesday. The winner of this contest will take on Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2 here May 29. RR had their regular skipper Riyan Parag returning to the playing eleven after a brief hamstring...

New Delhi: Senior Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee Wednesday said the Supreme Court judgment on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was confined to the Bihar case and could not be treated as an all-India ruling, asserting that the issues raised in West Bengal were completely different. Reacting to the apex court's verdict, Banerjee, who...

New Delhi: Michel Danino, one of the three NCERT academics earlier barred for life by the Supreme Court over a controversial chapter on judiciary, claimed on Wednesday that the top court had been kept in the dark about the broader context of their work. He also said that the initial March 11 order of the top court...