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Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has released practice question papers to help Class X students prepare for High School Certificate (HSC) examination. This time, practice question papers for General Science and Social Science subjects have been released. Click here for General Science practice...

New Delhi: The Centre Saturday said that the list of One District One Focus Product (ODOFP), which will be promoted in a cluster approach through convergence of the various schemes, has been finalised. The products have been identified from agricultural, horticultural, animal, poultry, milk, fisheries...

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh became a coronavirus-free state Sunday with the three active cases recovering from the disease, a senior health official said. The total caseload in the northeastern state remained at 16,836, while the number of recoveries stood at 16,780, State Surveillance Officer Lobsang Jampa...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 1,10,96,731 Sunday with 16,752 new infections, the highest in the last 30 days, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll mounted to 1,57,051 with 113 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. The country had...

New Delhi:  Private hospitals can charge up to Rs 250 per dose of COVID-19 vaccine, official sources said Saturday as India prepares to vaccinate people aged above 60 years and those over 45 with co-morbidities from March 1. The COVID-19 vaccine will be given free...

Washington: The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they'd revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage. The new president's vision for flushing cash to individuals,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Legislative Assembly Saturday passed 'Srimandir Parikrama Yojana' moved by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik through video conferencing. With Congress and BJP members supporting the resolution for the development of the Jagannath temple in Puri, it was passed unanimously. The three proposals under the resolution...

Washington: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, according to a US intelligence report submitted to Congress. Fifty-nine-year-old Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist who lived in the US as a legal permanent resident and...

New Delhi/Beijing: India has told China that disengagement at all friction points is necessary to contemplate de-escalation of troops in eastern Ladakh even as the foreign ministers of the two countries agreed to establish a hotline for ‘timely’ communication and exchange of views. In the...

Mumbai: The BSE benchmark Sensex nosedived about 1,940 points to settle just above the 49,000-level Friday, tracking massive sell-offs in world equities after a rout in global blond markets spooked investors. The 30-share BSE index ended with a loss of 1,939.32 points or 3.80 per...