Dhenkanal: At least four persons died and five others sustained severe injuries after a wall of an abandoned rice mill caved in near Alasua market on Station Road here Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified as vegetable vendors Sangram Sahu, 25, of Chainpurpatna, Ramachandra...
Bhubaneswar: An epitome of country’s women empowerment, Nandini Satpathy rules the hearts and minds of millions of Odias. Born June 9, 1931, Nandini was the first woman Chief Minister of Odisha and the second woman to become Chief Minister in independent India. Known as the...
Bhubaneswar: Although the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has declined in the country, there is no substantial improvement in Odisha especially in its tribal areas, says RTI activist Pradip Pradhan. IMR or the number of babies aged less than a year dying out of every 1,000...
Aligarh: Last Sunday, the residents of this town were alerted of a horrific crime when stray dogs were pulling at what seemed to be human body parts from a garbage dump. Later, it was confirmed that the mutilated body was of a two-year-old girl, who...
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was added to four more committees of the Union cabinet late Thursday, a day after the Cabinet Secretariat released the list of committees reconstituted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the exercise reflecting the special...
Mumbai: Home and auto loans are set to become cheaper as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) went for a hat-trick of rate cut on Thursday as it lowered its key lending rate for commercial banks by 25 basis points (bps) to 5.75 per cent....
Southampton: Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (4/51) making his debut in the World Cup shone, with the ball as India restricted South Africa to 227 for nine in 50 overs at the Rose Bowl ground here, Wednesday. The Proteas who elected to bat after winning the toss...
New Delhi: Among the 24 Cabinet ministers who were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind, only four were part of NDA-I, signalling further shrinking of the Atal-Advani impression on the Modi government. Rajnath Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prahlad Patel, who...
Bhubaneswar: The state government Tuesday said it would examine fresh proposals of the Centre in regard to implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Scheme in the state. A delegation led by CEO of Ayushman Bharat, Dr Indu Bhusan met state health minister Naba Kishore Das and...
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati said that her party would contest the upcoming Assembly bye-elections alone. Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, on the hand, did not comment on Mayawati's statement but said in Azamgarh Tuesday that the Samajwadi Party would form its own government...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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