Bhubaneswar: Following the footsteps of the School and Mass Education (S&ME) department, the Higher Education (HE) department too has decided to curtail the annual summer vacation to 16 days for this year, in a bid to help the students catch up with their studies that...
New Delhi: The victims have ‘unbridled participatory rights’ from the stage of investigation till the culmination of the criminal proceedings. Such powers are ‘totally independent, incomparable’ with that of the state, the Supreme Court said Monday. The significant observation came from the Supreme Court in...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday cancelled the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident, and directed him to surrender within a week. A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana and comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli...
Bhubaneswar: Noted Odia musician and Padma Shri Prafulla Kar passed away following a cardiac arrest at his Satya Nagar residence here Sunday night. He was 83. His last rites will be performed at Swargadwar Monday, family sources said. Kar is survived by his wife Manorama...
Hubballi: A large number of people allegedly went on a rampage damaging many police vehicles, a nearby hospital and a Hanuman temple in the old town of Hubballi in Karnataka and injured some police officers on duty over a social media post in the early...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Saturday announced curtailment of summer vacation in schools from 50 days to only 10 days. The decision was taken keeping in view the interest of students and help them to catch up with their studies as schools were closed due to...
Lviv: The bodies of more than 900 civilians have been discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces. This information was given by regional police chief Andriy Nebytov during a briefing Friday. Andriy Nebytov, the head of Kyiv’s regional police force, said...
New Delhi: Amid the Ukraine war and sanctions, Russia has begun delivering the second squadron of S-400 advanced surface-to-air missile defence system to India, ahead of schedule, officials said. By end of this month, the delivery of the critical system will be completed and thereafter...
New Delhi: The members of Hindu Sena -- a right-wing organisation -- Friday morning put up saffron flags outside the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in the national capital forcing the police to initiate legal action and remove the said flags from there. "Today morning...
New Delhi: In what can bring cheer to large parts of agrarian India, the south-west monsoon rainfall this year, over the country as a whole, is most likely to be normal - quantitatively 99 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA), the India Meteorological...
By Aakar Patel Next week, on 3 November, America will have its midterm election. It is so called because it...
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By Dilip Cherian Five extensions in three months, including those of Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan,...
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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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By Aakar Patel The three democratic tools available to us are the vote, the court and protest. The only one...
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