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Bhubaneswar: Information fetched through a Right to Information (RTI) plea has exposed the deplorable condition of higher education infrastructure in Odisha thanks to the litigations over the contentious Orissa Universities (Amendment) Bill. Replying to an RTI query by Sanjay Kumar Mohanty of Dhenkanal district, the...

Mumbai: The banking system in India is healthy enough to withstand any negative spillovers from external headwinds emanating from the ‘Jackson Hole’ speech by the US Fed, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said Monday. He was addressing the annual gathering of the...

London: Liz Truss was named Monday as the United Kingdom’s next Prime Minister today. Liz Truss won an internal leadership contest of the ruling Conservative party at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession. Truss beat...

Ottawa: Canadian police have said that 10 people were killed and 15 others injured after stabbings at multiple locations in Saskatchewan. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a press conference on Sunday that they found 13 incident locations in James Smith Cree Nation and...

New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of weakening the country by spreading fear and hatred, and said only the Congress can unite the country and take it to the path of progress. Launching an all...

Ranchi: Amid suspense over continuation of the Jharkhand Chief Minister as an MLA, Hemant Soren will seek a vote of trust during the special session of the Assembly on Monday, an official said. As per a letter sent to the MLAs by the Assembly secretariat,...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accorded a warm welcome as he returned to Colombo from Thailand amid tight security late Friday, ending his 51-day self-imposed exile after fleeing abroad following months-long mass protests over the country's worst economic crisis. Rajapaksa, 73, was...

Kochi: India launched its maiden indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioning the warship that put India into a select league of countries with domestic capability to develop such large vessels. Modi unveiled a plaque to mark...

Bhubaneswar: Agrarian festival 'Nuakhai' was celebrated in Odisha, mostly in the western region of the state Thursday. President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik greeted people on the occasion. Murmu, who hails from Odisha, greeted the...

New Delhi/Chennai: India's economic growth rose to 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal (2022-23), a huge jump from 4.1 per cent growth recorded in the final quarter of 2021-22. However, experts said that the GDP growth number was lower than...