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Panaji: At least six persons were killed, and several sustained injuries after a stampede broke out during a temple festival in North Goa, officials said Saturday. The incident occurred at Sree Lairai Devi temple in Shirgao village in the wee hours of the day, a...

New Delhi: The Congress Friday urged the Centre to act with firmness in the wake of the Pahalgam attack to "penalise" Pakistan for its continued export of terror and asserted this is a time for demonstrating our collective will as a nation to “teach Pakistan...

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has set up a fact-finding committee to look into consecutive student suicides at KIIT-Bhubaneshwar, officials said Friday. The panel was constituted after a 20-year-old Nepalese student of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha's Bhubaneswar...

A video showing a shikara capsizing in Srinagar’s Dal Lake has gone viral, but OrissaPOST could not independently verify when the footage was recorded.

New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev Friday gave an undertaking in the Delhi High Court saying he will not issue any disparaging statement or publish on social media posts similar to his "sharbat jihad" remark against Hamdard's Rooh Afza. Justice Amit Bansal, who May 1 ordered...

New Delhi: A torrential rain across parts of north India early Friday led to the deaths of seven people in accidents, crippled road traffic, and forced several flights to delay. The busy road stretches in Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad and Mathura were inundated with water as...

New Delhi: Pakistan has once again resorted to cyberattacks against India. In a continued wave of cyber offensives, Pakistan-sponsored hacker groups such as “Cyber Group HOAX1337” and “National Cyber Crew” made unsuccessful attempts to breach some websites. Defence sources told IANS that these hacking efforts...

New Delhi: The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, Nukaga Fukushiro, conveyed his country's full cooperation to India in fighting terrorism as he condemned the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 civilians, mostly tourists, dead. On a visit to India, Fukushiro held bilateral...

New Delhi: The VHP Friday demanded that the Centre start the process for the creation of a National Register of Citizens and deport Pakistani nationals found illegally living in India. After India revoked all visas issued to Pakistani nationals in the aftermath of the Pahalgam...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Friday extended heartfelt condolences on the tragic demise of a female Nepali student of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University, Bhubaneswar, stating that the Indian government takes the safety, security, and well-being of all international students...