New Delhi: Within seconds of lift off, the engine fuel control switches of Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 plane got switched off, with one of the pilots asking the other why he cut off and the latter responding, saying he did not do so, according...
Bhubaneswar: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi Friday urged party members in Odisha to fight unitedly against the BJP government in the state. Kharge and Gandhi held closed-door meetings with state party leaders shortly after addressing the ‘Samvidhan Bachao Samavesh' in Bhubaneswar....
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Election Commission of India to continue with its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, calling it a 'constitutional mandate'. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi, however, questioned the timing of the...
New Delhi: An Indian commerce ministry team will soon visit Washington for another round of talks on the proposed trade agreement with the US to iron out differences in sectors, like agriculture and automobiles, a government official said Thursday. "We are not differentiating between an...
New Delhi: Strong tremors from an earthquake were felt across Delhi-NCR Thursday, causing panic among residents in the National Capital, Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, and other nearby areas. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake was measured to be of 4.4 magnitude on the...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has introduced a fail system at Class 5 and 8 annual examinations from the current academic year, an official notification said. To implement the decision, the government Wednesday brought necessary amendments to the Odisha Right of Children to Free and Compulsory...
Vadodara: Nine persons, including a child, were killed and nine others rescued after a portion of a four-decade-old bridge collapsed in Gujarat's Vadodara district Wednesday morning, officials said. A slab of the Gambhira bridge, located on Mahisagar river which connects central Gujarat to the Saurashtra...
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Banking, insurance, postal, coal mining, highway, and construction services are likely to be disrupted Wednesday as over 25 crore workers affiliated with central and sectoral trade unions go on a nationwide strike. The protest targets the Union government's new labour codes and privatisation...
Brasilia: Brazil conferred its highest honour, the Grand Collar of the National Order of the Southern Cross, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his ongoing State Visit to the country Tuesday. The award was the 26th global honour for PM Modi and the third on...
New York/Washington: The US is close to making a trade deal with India, President Donald Trump has said. “Now, we've made a deal with the United Kingdom, we've made a deal with China….We're close to making a deal with India. Others we met with and...
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