Bhubaneswar: Puri's Jagannath Temple has secured intellectual property protection for three distinctive names and identities associated with the 12th-century shrine, an SJTA statement said Tuesday. The names that got the recognition for publication by the Trade Marks Registry were 'Shree Mandira' (in classes 19 and 45), 'Ratna Bhandar' (in classes 14 and 45), and 'Shree Nahar' (in...

London: US President Donald Trump's latest map-making exercise has rattled the North Atlantic. During a flurry of social media posts over the long holiday weekend, Trump posted a map showing the US sprawling across all of North America and extending to Greenland and Iceland. The map was coloured in the red, white and blue stars and stripes...

Brahmapur: A Special POCSO court here Tuesday sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting him of raping a 13-year-old girl after kidnapping her in Odisha's Ganjam district. The incident took place six years ago in a village under Rambha police station limits in Ganjam district. POCSO court judge Rohit Lal Panda has also...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear a plea filed by actor and comedian Rajpal Yadav and his wife challenging the Delhi High Court judgment upholding their conviction in multiple cheque dishonour cases, and granted them exemption from surrendering, subject to a deposit of Rs 5 crore. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition INDIA bloc Tuesday organised a mass convention here, demanding withdrawal of the MMDR Amendment Act, 2026, and protection of Odisha's rights over its mineral resources, land and forests. Constituent parties of the grouping, including the Congress, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) Liberation, All India Forward Bloc, NCP, Samajwadi Party and RJD, participated in the convention, and resolved...

Bengaluru: Food safety officials seized expired and mislabelled products worth Rs 1.38 crore and medicines worth around Rs 4 lakh from dark stores (retail warehouses) and storage facilities operated by online delivery platforms in Bengaluru, officials said Monday. The inspections were conducted by the Food Safety and Drugs Administration following the directives of Health Minister U T...

New Delhi: As of 2021, none of India's villages had achieved multiple sustainable development goals (SDGs), including access to basic services, health insurance coverage and women's bank account ownership, research published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal shows. However, almost all the villages had achieved the target for adolescent pregnancy among girls aged 10-14, an...

Chennai: India internationals Mohammed Shami and Mukesh Kumar starred with the ball as East Zone ended Day 3 of the Duleep Trophy final against South Zone here at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in ascendancy. Both Shami and Mukesh took two wickets each as the Tilak Varma-led South were restricted to 242/6 in the first innings and ended...

Moscow: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that there is no slowdown in India’s Russian energy imports which continue to set records. “I don’t want to give you any figures for understandable reasons, but every month we have a new record,” Peskov said in a virtual briefing with Indian journalists, ahead of the BRICS Summit to be...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has formed a team to identify unsafe buildings in the state within a fortnight, after which owners would be issued notices and the structures subsequently demolished, Housing and Urban Development Minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra said. He said the government has already assessed the safety of its own buildings and notices have been issued wherever...