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Bhubaneswar: Nursing staff of state-run hospitals and healthcare centres in Odisha announced a two-day agitation from Wednesday over their 10-point demand that includes regularisation of contractual workers and scrapping of outsourcing. Odisha Nursing Employees' Association (ONEA) president Suchismita Dash said they have raised their demands...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the Punjab government's appeal against a high court verdict quashing its decision to expand the definition of 'NRI quota' for admissions in undergraduate medical and dental courses in the state. "This fraud must come to an end now," the...

Marjayoun (Lebanon): Israeli strikes in Lebanon Monday killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of...

Jerusalem/Beirut: Israel launched its largest airstrikes in Lebanon since the onset of the Israel-Palestine conflict, killing at least 356 people and injuring over 1,246 others, the Lebanese Health Ministry has said. The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes Monday included 24 children and 42 women,...

Mumbai: The man accused of sexually assaulting two girls at a school in Badlapur town of Maharashtra died in retaliatory firing by police after he snatched a cop's gun and opened fire, an official said Monday. Akshay Shinde, who worked as a sweeper in the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said watching and downloading child po*nography are offences under the POCSO Act and the information technology law. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra set aside a Madras High Court ruling that...

Budapest: India Sunday scripted history as its men's and women's teams clinched their maiden gold medals in the 45th Chess Olympiad after beating their respective opponents in the final round here. The men's team defeated Slovenia after D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and Rameshbabu Praggnanadhaa won...

Wilmington: US President Joe Biden commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic visit to Ukraine last month and his message of peace, as the two leaders held wide-ranging talks that figured pressing global challenges including the situation in the war-ravaged country. The US President hosted Modi...

New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday landed in New York to attend an Indian community event here and to address a key conclave at the United Nations. After wrapping up the Quad Leaders' meeting in Wilmington, hosted by President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Modi...

Wilmington (US): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the Quad is not against anyone, but for a rules-based international order and respect for sovereignty, in a veiled reference to China. "Free, open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific is our priority," Modi said in his opening...