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Bhubaneswar: Mettle Meet 2026 is all set to kick off Saturday, bringing together around 80 teams from across Odisha and different parts of the country for one of the biggest and most prestigious quizzing competitions in eastern India. The opening day will feature the preliminary...

Islamabad: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye Friday signed a joint defence agreement under which an attack against any one of the three countries will be regarded as an attack against them all, amid escalating tensions in West Asia. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Saudi Crown...

New Delhi: The CBI charge sheet in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case rests on a mountain of digital forensic evidence, including an access control app of a residential society in Pune where NTA chemistry expert and accused P V Kulkarni lived, officials said. In...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay Friday said that it was he who proposed holding talks with neighbouring Karnataka on Cauvery issue, considering some hope for a positive outcome. The chief minister declared in the Assembly that he did not wish to indulge...

Mumbai: Addressing the gathering amid recent student-led protests over issues including the alleged NEET paper leak, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat said Thursday that the Gen Z movement was not against the country and that the protesters' grievances were genuine. He stressed...

Colombo: An Indian fishing vessel with 11 crew members met with an accident in Sri Lankan waters, prompting a rescue operation by the island nation's navy, according to an official statement Thursday. According to the Sri Lanka Navy, the trawler had reportedly crossed the International...

Pratapgarh: Six members of a family were killed and another injured after a nearly 100-year-old house collapsed amid heavy rainfall in the Mahuli locality under the Kotwali police station area of Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district in the early hours of Thursday. According to police, all...

Bhubaneswar: After large-scale errors were noticed in textbooks of the Odisha government schools, mistakes were allegedly “detected in the National Anthem and state song in the Odia textbook for Class-I students in English medium private institutes”. Though the schools are run privately, the state government...

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Wednesday kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent, while maintaining the status quo in its latest Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting amid the ongoing geopolitical tensions. The Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) rate also remained at...