Transgender community protests
Bhubaneswar: Members of Odisha’s trans gender and gender-diverse community stage a protest here at Master Canteen Square Tuesday, opposing the pro posed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amend ment Act, 2026 (Bill No. 79). The demonstrators raised concerns that the...
Odisha Vigilance seizes Rs 45 lakh unexplained money from officer
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Department Tuesday seized Rs 45.41 lakh in cash from the possession of an officer, who could not satisfactorily explain the source of the money, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, a team from the department...
Odisha Assembly passes Appropriation Bill
Bhubaneswar: Amid a walkout by the Opposition MLAs, the Odisha Assembly Tuesday passed an appropriation Bill, allowing the state government to spend Rs 3.10 lakh crore from its consolidated fund during the financial year 2026-27. Speaking in favour of the...
Singapore-based firm to prepare master plan for new city adjacent to Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) Tuesday signed an agreement with a Singapore-based firm for the preparation of a comprehensive master plan for a new city adjacent to the Odisha capital. The agreement was signed by BDA secretary Manas Ranjan...
17-yr-old girl gang-raped in Odisha
Berhampur: A 17-year-old girl fleeing sexual abuse by her stepfather in Andhra Pradesh was allegedly drugged and raped by two persons in Odisha, police said Tuesday. Odisha Police arrested two persons and took a boy into custody in connection with...
Trump says it’s on other nations to open Strait of Hormuz
Dubai: US President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that the responsibility for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open should belong with countries that rely on it, rather than the US. He said there's "no reason for us to do this." Trump expressed frustration earlier Tuesday with allies who have been...
Read moreDetailsChhattisgarh: 25 more Maoists with combined reward of Rs 1.47 crore surrender in Bijapur
Raipur/Bijapur: In a major boost to anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh, 25 Maoist cadres associated with the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee have surrendered and returned to the mainstream. This development occurred under the “Poona Margem” rehabilitation to rejuvenation initiative Tuesday. The surrendering cadres, which include 12 women, had a collective reward of Rs 1.47 crore declared on them. Along with their surrender, security forces achieved the largest recovery in Maoist history, seizing...
Read moreDetails‘False, fabricated’: Rijiju slams Oppn over claims on FCRA amendment Bill
New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju Tuesday asserted that the FCRA amendment Bill only seeks to stop the use of foreign funding against national security and interests and not to target any religious organisation. Speaking to reporters here at the BJP headquarters, Rijiju slammed the Congress and Left parties, accusing them of spreading falsehood on the proposed amendment in the FCRA. Their claims about the Bill are "completely false, fabricated and...
Read moreDetailsVir Vikram Yadav appointed new DGCA chief
New Delhi: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the government has appointed Vir Vikram Yadav as the new Director General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), replacing Faiz Ahmed Kidwai. Yadav, who is currently serving as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, will now head India’s aviation regulator at a time when the sector is expanding rapidly. With rising air traffic, growing airline fleets and...
Read moreDetailsIndiGo names William Walsh as new CEO
New Delhi: The country's largest airline IndiGo Tuesday announced the appointment of former British Airways chief William Walsh as new CEO. Walsh, an airline industry veteran, is currently the Director General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Announcing the appointment of Walsh as the CEO, subject to regulatory approvals, IndiGo, in a release, said his tenure at IATA comes to a close July 31 and is expected to join no...
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Trump says it’s on other nations to open Strait of Hormuz
Dubai: US President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that the responsibility for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open should belong with countries that rely on it, rather than the US. He said there's "no reason for us to do this." Trump expressed frustration earlier Tuesday with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the...
Transgender community protests
Bhubaneswar: Members of Odisha’s trans gender and gender-diverse community stage a protest here at Master Canteen Square Tuesday, opposing the pro posed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amend ment Act, 2026 (Bill No. 79). The demonstrators raised concerns that the amendment could un dermine the rights, dignity, and legal recognition of trans gender individuals across the state...
Be careful what we entrust to robots
By Melvin Durai During a recent public dance demonstration in China’s Shaanxi province, a humanoid robot performed kicks and twirls to the delight of adults and children. But things went awry when the robot strayed to the edge of the cordoned-off area. As it made a twirl, it slapped a young boy. The robot was arrested and...
BATTLE FOR ATTENTION
By Jacques Attali In the 21st century, power no longer lies only in territory, capital, or technology. It lies in something far more elusive and finite: human attention. The jury verdict in a US civil suit, which found Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately addicting young users, leading to numerous mental health problems, is probably just an...
Trump Trapped
It is the fifth week running since US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war against Iran. But till date no clear strategy and goal for the unprovoked and one-sided war have been defi ned. The US is relentlessly continuing its strikes on Iranian civilian targets and building up forces in the...
Horoscope April 1: Balanced day for Capricorn, mixed signals ahead for these four signs
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Odisha Vigilance seizes Rs 45 lakh unexplained money from officer
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Department Tuesday seized Rs 45.41 lakh in cash from the possession of an officer, who could not satisfactorily explain the source of the money, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, a team from the department intercepted Odisha Police Housing and Welfare Corporation (OPHWC) deputy manager Bidyut Ranjan Bhol near Sambalpur railway station...
Odisha Assembly passes Appropriation Bill
Bhubaneswar: Amid a walkout by the Opposition MLAs, the Odisha Assembly Tuesday passed an appropriation Bill, allowing the state government to spend Rs 3.10 lakh crore from its consolidated fund during the financial year 2026-27. Speaking in favour of the Bill, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, who also holds the Finance portfolio, said the budget estimation for...
Singapore-based firm to prepare master plan for new city adjacent to Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) Tuesday signed an agreement with a Singapore-based firm for the preparation of a comprehensive master plan for a new city adjacent to the Odisha capital. The agreement was signed by BDA secretary Manas Ranjan Padhi and the Singaporean firm Surbana Jurong's deputy director Manideep Dutta here. The proposed new city will...
