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Bhubaneswar: Vedanta’s proposed aluminium projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore will generate over 2 lakh direct and indirect jobs. Efforts to implement the projects will be intensified. It will help establish Odisha as a world-class aluminium production hub, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said in...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Saturday rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran offered this week to reopen the strait and resume talks on its nuclear programme in seven days if the US lifts its naval blockade of Iranian ports, waives sanctions...

Bangkok: China and the US agreed to set up a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between their leaders in Washington, both sides said in statements Saturday. The two sides agreed to keep working together...

San Francisco: OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several US government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company's models' unanticipated behaviour. The AI giant's models accessed publicly available information on two websites operated...

New York: The US-India trade deal is going to "unleash another level" of bilateral relations that haven't been accomplished in decades, a Senior State Department Official has said. The official said the two countries were "90 per cent there" with the deal, with only a...

Bhubaneswar: “Odisha has a strong industrial ecosystem, and we need to manufacture more from what we mine in the state,” said Industries Minister, Sampad Chandra Swain at the inaugural session of CII Odisha Metals & Mining Conclave 2026, here Friday. The two-day conclave organised by...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday launched the ‘Sambandh’ mega membership drive aimed at bringing more farmers into Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) and Large Area Multipurpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPCS), and said cooperative institutions should serve as a lifeline for farmers...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will clear pension dues of beneficiaries who have not received their old-age pension due to technical glitches by October, state minister Nityananda Gond said Friday. In a written statement to the Assembly, Gond said 20.33 lakh beneficiaries are covered under the Indira...

New Delhi: Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India rose 6 per cent to USD 19.81 billion in April-June this fiscal, though inflows from the US fell by over 76 per cent, according to data from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)....

New Delhi: The Union government will borrow Rs 7.86 lakh crore in the second half of this fiscal year, reducing the total borrowing for the current financial year by a whopping Rs 1,20,494 crore. "During 2026-27, the Government of India is expected to have market...