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Mumbai: Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower Friday as elevated oil prices and the prolonged US-Iran impasse weighed on investor sentiment. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 70.71 points, or 0.09 per cent, to settle at 78,009.25. During the day, it declined 395.59 points,...

Bhubaneswar: Seventeen police personnel from Odisha, including Additional DGP Sanjeeb Panda and DSP Smitarani Mohanty, were awarded for their services to the people of the state, officials said Friday. ADGP Panda and DSP Mohanty have been named for the President's Medal for Distinguished Service (PSM),...

Puri: A Puri-Talcher passenger train derailed while entering platform No. 3 at Puri railway station Friday, triggering panic among passengers, though no injuries were reported. The incident took place as the train was entering the station with passengers on board. One of the train's wheels...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday quashed FIRs registered against YouTuber and comedian Samay Raina and four others in connection with "offensive remarks" made about Persons with Disabilities during an episode of the show 'India's Got Latent'. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant,...

New Delhi: Wholesale price inflation softened month-on-month for the first time in nine months to 9.78 per cent in July on easing in fuel and food prices. Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation was 9.87 per cent in June. This is the first time since October...

Bhubaneswar/Baleshwar/Baripada: At least five districts of Odisha have been affected by fresh floods following two days of heavy rainfall, prompting the administration to evacuate people from low-lying areas and open relief centres, officials said. Baleshwar, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Kendhujhar districts have been affected by...

Anugola: A fast-track court in Odisha's Anugola district sentenced a 23-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a girl in May last year, an official said Friday. The Ad-hoc Additional District & Sessions Judge-cum-Fast Track Special Court Thursday pronounced its judgment and imposed a fine...

New Delhi: Five places in the national Capital received bomb threats a day before the nation celebrates its 80th Independence Day, officials of the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) said Friday. According to the DFS, the locations in Delhi which received calls alleging bomb blasts are...

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant Friday termed the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) intervention in the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University of Law, NALSAR controversy as “completely unnecessary” and reaffirmed that students have a fundamental right to protest,...

New Delhi: Centre Friday notified 40 questions - caste, place of Covid vaccination being two of them - to be asked of respondents during the population enumeration phase of the Census, set to begin from September 1 in snow-bound areas, a government order said. The...