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New Delhi: Activist Sonam Wangchuk was stable Sunday but needed round-the-clock medical care and close monitoring due to the physiological stress and systemic effects of his prolonged hunger strike, Safdarjung Hospital authorities said. A health bulletin issued by VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital said Wangchuk's vital parameters were stable and his blood parameters had shown marginal improvement. A...

Bhubaneswar: India's star shuttler P V Sindhu Sunday described her historic Japan Open women's singles title triumph as truly poetic as it coincided with Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in Puri. Sindhu made the remark in a social media post while replying to BJD president Naveen Patnaik, who had earlier congratulated her on defeating Japan's Akane Yamaguchi to...

Bhubaneswar: The retail price of an egg has increased from Rs 7 to Rs 9 per piece in Odisha over the past few days, putting additional pressure on consumers, officials said Sunday. Fisheries and Animal Resources Development Minister Gokulananda Mallik said Odisha depends on other states to meet its domestic egg demand. He attributed the price rise...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition BJD Sunday said it would raise several issues concerning Odisha in Parliament during the Monsoon Session, including alleged hurdles in the utilisation of MPLADS funds, non-revision of coal royalty and errors in school textbooks. The issues were raised by BJD's Rajya Sabha floor leader Manas Mangaraj at an all-party meeting convened by the government...

Puri: The authorities of the 12th-century Shree Jagannath Temple conducted a special inventory of the Ratna Bhandar (temple treasury) Sunday, following the standard operating procedure approved by the Odisha government, officials said. The inventory was carried out while Lord Jagannath and his sibling deities were on their annual sojourn to the Shree Gundicha Temple as part of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday hailed the laurels won by the Indian team members in the Biology and Chemistry Olympiads and said India's youth continue to make a mark globally. Modi said it is a matter of immense happiness that in the 37th International Biology Olympiad held in Vilnius, Lithuania, all four Indian team members...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal has concluded a five-day visit to Spain, Belgium, Finland and Estonia aimed at deepening India’s economic partnership with Europe, while building on the momentum generated by the successful conclusion of the India–EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, according to a statement issued by the Commerce and Industry...

London: Ben Duckett made mincemeat of an inexperienced Indian bowling attack with a fabulous 141 as England posted a mammoth 387 for 3 in the series-deciding third ODI, riding on a 192-run opening stand between the centurion and Jacob Bethell Sunday. Jasprit Bumrah's absence due to an impact injury on his left knee was certainly a blow...

Tehran: A construction site of the Darkhovin nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran's Khuzestan province was attacked by US projectiles Sunday, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said. In a statement published on its official website, the AEOI said the attack took place at 3:39 a.m. local time (2409 GMT), calling it "an aggressive and brutal...