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Bhubaneswar: Eminent writer and academician Padma Shri Binapani Mohanty passed away here Sunday evening. She was 85. Binapani Mohanty suffered a cardiac arrest at her residence in Badambadi locality in this city. Born in Berhampur November 11, 1936, Mohanty was conferred with the Padma Shri...

New Delhi: India has suspended tourist visas issued to Chinese nationals, global airlines body IATA told its member carriers April 20. India has been raising with China the plight of approximately 22,000 Indian students enrolled in Chinese universities who are unable to go back for...

New Delhi: In a strong advisory to private television channels, the government Saturday said certain debates on the coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the Delhi riots had provocative and socially unacceptable language, and it took exception to headlines such as 'Parmanu (nuclear) Putin' and...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against various suspects of the recent Jahangirpuri violence case including prime accused Mohammed Ansar, officials said Saturday. An Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), the ED's equivalent of a police FIR, has been filed by...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra asked Friday the superintendents of police (SPs) to take stern action against those sharing fake question papers of Class X and XII board examinations on social media. The chief secretary gave this direction while reviewing the preparations for the...

London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his UK counterpart, Boris Johnson, set the negotiating teams on both sides a Diwali deadline for the conclusion of an India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) during bilateral discussions Friday in New Delhi. Diwali this year falls on October 24....

Bengaluru: Two students who had first petitioned the court to allow Hijab inside classrooms were Friday turned away from the examination centre of their final class 12 board examination. Aliya Assadi and Resham had collected their hall tickets and turned up donning burqas to take the exams...

Jammu: Two terrorists and one security personnel were killed and five others injured Friday in two terror related incidents in J&K's Jammu city. The two terrorists were killed and three other security men injured in a gunfight with the security forces in Jalalabad locality of...

Ahmedabad/New Delhi: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad Thursday as part of his two-day India trip and visited the famous Sabarmati Ashram and met industrialist Gautam Adani, a day before his formal talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on key international and...

Moscow: Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin Thursday that the country's forces have fully captured Ukraine's key Black Sea port-city of Mariupol, the media reported. However, more than 2,000 Ukrainian militants still remain entrenched at the Azovstal steel plant in the city,...