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Bhubaneswar: Normal life was partially disrupted in parts of Odisha Wednesday due to a 12-hour bandh called by a farmers' rights outfit over alleged large-scale errors in textbooks used in government schools, officials said. Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed at several places...

Bhubaneswar: Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) and Nabanirman Yuva Chhatra Sangathan (NYCS) have called for a 12-hour Odisha bandh Wednesday from 6am to 6pm, urging shops and markets to remain closed and vehicles to stay off the roads during the period. The organisation said the...

Jammu: Four Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, including an assistant commandant, were killed after a colleague allegedly opened fire in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday evening, officials said. The incident took place at around 7.30 pm at Sewa-III hydroelectric power project located...

Bhubaneswar: Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS), a farmers’ rights organisation, has called for a statewide Odisha bandh September 30, demanding accountability over the errors in government-issued school textbooks and the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond. Separately, INDIA bloc Tuesday announced an...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday noted that states and Union territories have a massive outstanding balance of Rs 20,000 crore to recover towards unpaid traffic e-challans and suggested linking such challans to electricity bills to recover the amount. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday refused to grant an interim stay on the imposition of merchant discount rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000 coming into effect from October 15. The top court agreed to examine the challenge to the imposition of...

New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Election Commission, the Congress Sunday said EC's proposed measures related to SIR are an admission that the exercise has been a "disaster" and asserted that the "piecemeal" steps for deleted or at risk voters will do little...

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government Sunday revoked a controversial order that exempted the state's Public (Law and Order) Department from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, following intense pushback from political allies of the ruling TVK and transparency advocates. The administration...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday conducted an aerial survey of areas in Ganjam and Koraput inundated by rivers flowing in spate following heavy rain that has badly hit 13 districts, where local authorities have started moving people to safety. The Hirakud Dam Sunday...

Sambalpur/Baleshwar: Odisha government Saturday started shifting people in low-lying areas to safety as all rivers in the state have swelled due to heavy rainfall over the past few days, and the Hirakud Dam has opened 16 gates to release excess water into the Mahanadi, officials...