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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday urged citizens to buy products made by local artisans and strengthen the 'Vocal for Local' initiative as the country gears up to celebrate Diwali. In his monthly radio broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat', he also highlighted the success of...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Odisha Sunday to inaugurate the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) data centre and cybersecurity training institute at Jatni in Khordha district. According to the scheduled programme, PM Modi will arrive at Bhubaneswar airport at 4.10 p.m. He will...

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Manohar Lal Saturday said urban mobility must be integrated with city planning from the outset, calling transport infrastructure a key driver of economic growth. Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference and Exhibition 2026 in Bhubaneswar, the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s investment priorities must focus on meaningful employment, sustainable resource use and environmental protection—not merely corporate investments that primarily benefit corporations, said former Union minister Srikant Jena in a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi seeking clarification over the proposed Rs 1.04 lakh...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday said the state's urbanisation rate is expected to more than double to 40 per cent by 2036, and asserted that the BJP government has already commenced developing state-of-the-art infrastructure and establishing modern institutions to support this growth....

Baku: India and Uzbekistan discussed key issues on their bilateral agenda and stressed the need for timely implementation of agreements reached at the highest level during a meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov in Azerbaijan's Baku. Jaishankar was...

Moscow/New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin have directed their governments to further expand bilateral cooperation, as India and Russia aim to increase bilateral trade to USD 100 billion by 2030, Ambassador Vinay Kumar has said. In an interview with Russian...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Reserve Bank of India’s Rs 169-crore data centre at Info Valley-II, Jatani, in Odisha’s Khordha district October 25, 2026. The data centre, located near Bhubaneswar, is designed to operate as a secondary backup to the...

New Delhi: Gold prices dipped 3.28 per cent on a weekly basis, while silver prices declined 7.83 per cent this week, as rising crude oil prices heightened inflation fears. The rising inflation concerns reinforced expectations that global interest rates will stay higher for longer, prompting...

Mumbai: The macroeconomic environment remains challenging, with crude oil emerging as a key source of uncertainty for domestic markets, analysts said Saturday, as Indian equities endured a challenging, holiday-shortened week, with benchmark indices extending their losses. Nifty 50 and Sensex recorded weekly declines of approximately...