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New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Mandeep K Bhandari was appointed chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) following a bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre Friday. Bhandari, a 2001 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union...

United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday sharply responded to a Pakistani journalist who asked him a question related to terrorism. "A terrorist country is asking me that question. Come on," Jaishankar said in a strong response to the question by the Pakistani journalist...

New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has postponed his visits to Uttar Pradesh to attend conferences of electoral literacy clubs, with officials saying rescheduling of dates is a routine exercise. The officials noted that similar conferences in Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand were also...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Friday said that 1,741 errors were found in textbooks of Classes I to VIII, and that Rs 175 crore was spent on their printing and publication. In a written response to a question from Congress MLA Sofia Firdous, State School and Mass...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday launched the ‘Sambandh’ mega membership drive aimed at bringing more farmers into Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) and Large Area Multipurpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPCS), and said cooperative institutions should serve as a lifeline for farmers rather than function...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will clear pension dues of beneficiaries who have not received their old-age pension due to technical glitches by October, state minister Nityananda Gond said Friday. In a written statement to the Assembly, Gond said 20.33 lakh beneficiaries are covered under the Indira...

Thuamul Rampur: Relentless rain and strong winds over the past three days have disrupted normal life across Thuamul Rampur block in Odisha's Kalahandi district, with landslides, fallen trees and rising water levels cutting off several villages and damaging houses and public infrastructure. Sources said several...

Bhubaneswar: Four Left parties in Odisha Friday demanded immediate dismissal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and restoration of the voting rights of people whose names have been "wrongly" excluded during the SIR of electoral rolls. In a joint statement, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) Liberation and...

Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four girl students in Odisha became pregnant while staying in hostels of residential schools run by a state government department during the last two years, a minister informed the Assembly Friday. In a written reply to a query of Congress legislator Tara Prasad Bahinipati,...

Ayodhya: The diversion of donations from the Ram Mandir here took place during the cash-counting process and involved a network of people who allegedly removed, concealed and distributed the pilfered funds, according to the nearly 70,000-page chargesheet filed by the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team...