New Delhi/Rourkela: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a day-long visit to Odisha April 21, her office said in a statement Monday. She will inaugurate a Planetarium and Science Centre, and the Nirmal Munda Parivesh Path, at a public function in Rourkela, it said. Murmu will also inaugurate a Tribal Museum and Integrated Command and Control Centre...

Imphal: Normal life in several hill and valley districts of Manipur was affected Monday following two shutdowns called by different organisations to protest the killing of two children and a couple of civilians at separate places by suspected militants earlier this month, officials said. Educational establishments and markets remained closed, while public transport remained off the roads...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Electoral Officer RS Gopalan Monday said he has asked EROs to undertake a proper verification before names are deleted from the electoral rolls. The instruction has been issued to Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) of all districts after the BLOs identified around 9.8 lakh names across the state for deletion from the rolls on account...

New Delhi: Heatwave conditions are very likely to prevail over isolated pockets of northwest, central and the adjoining parts of east India for the next four to five days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Monday. It said isolated pockets of Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, East Rajasthan, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, West Uttar Pradesh, West Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gangetic...

New Delhi: Namita Thapar, judge on Shark Tank India and Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Monday hit back at trolls after facing online backlash over her remarks on the health benefits of namaz posted on Instagram in March. Thapar said she and her mother were subjected to abusive comments following her social media post, prompting her to...

Kathmandu: Government employees in Nepal will now receive their salaries every 15 days, breaking the long-held tradition of monthly salary payments. As per a Finance Minister-level decision taken April 17, government employees will be paid on a fortnightly basis (twice a month), and a circular has already been issued in the name of the concerned government agencies...

London: Britain Monday called for a lasting settlement to ensure freedom of navigation and a toll-free Strait of Hormuz as the US-Iran ceasefire hung in the balance. UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper arrived in Japan for the final leg of what has been branded as an "intensified shuttle diplomacy tour" to advance coordination with key allies on...

Paris: Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris Monday, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content. The world's richest man and Linda Yaccarino - the former CEO of X - have been summoned for "voluntary interviews," while other...

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Centre, the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on the announcement of “irrational freebies” by political parties ahead of elections. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Surya Kant and...

Bhubaneswar: No discrepancy has been noticed so far in the inventory of the valuables in the Ratna Bhandar of Puri's Jagannath temple, authorities of the 12th-century shrine said Monday. Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) chief administrator Arabinda Padhee, who is monitoring the exercise that started March 25, said the inventory of valuables of Chalanti Bhandar, which stores...