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DWARKA PRASAD PATNAIK, OP Chhatrapur: A 91-member team of artistes belonging to five different tribal dance groups from Ganjam district met the President of India Droupadi Murmu, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi Tuesday, led by the Ganjam Collector, V Keerthi Vasan. The President...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress (OPMC) Tuesday staged a protest against remarks allegedly made by BJP leaders and workers in Uttarakhand and a non-political organisation targeting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the controversy surrounding the Manusmriti. Led by OPMC president Minakshi Bahinipati, a large...

Chitrakonda: Chemically mixed iron ore dust and liquid spilled onto a road and nearby farmland after a slurry pipeline operated by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AM/NS) India burst near Pabiliguda village in Chitrakonda area of Malkangiri district at about 11 am Tuesday. The incident sparked panic...

Mumbai: Indian authorities have raided an illegal warehouse in Navi Mumbai that erased expiry dates and altered nutritional data on original products from PepsiCo, Nestle, Coca-Cola, and Hindustan Unilever to export them abroad. Food safety officers conducted a six-day investigation and seized goods worth nearly...

Chhendipada: In a bizarre incident, a member of a Forest Department squad deployed near a village in Anugola district to drive away wild elephants had to climb a mango tree to save his life when a herd of marauding jumbos chased him, officials and residents...

Mumbai: As many as 31 students have been hospitalised after they fell ill following the consumption of lunch served at a school in Maharashtra's Chandrapur Tuesday, officials said. Students at Shri Ambru Naik Secondary Ashram School in Nagarala, located in the Jiwati Tehsil of Maharashtra's...

Washington: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and invited him to the economic and financial partnership meeting in Delhi later this year. Sitharaman met Bessent in Asheville, North Carolina, on the sidelines of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Lok Bhavan here has become the first Governor House in the country to receive the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) Platinum certification under its Green Campus Rating System, marking a significant step towards sustainable and environment-friendly infrastructure, an official statement said Tuesday. Governor...

Kyiv/New York: An Indian national has been killed in a wave of intensified Russian attacks on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Tuesday. He said on X that the Indian was among 12 killed in drone and missile strikes on several targets across Ukraine in five...

London: Former British prime minister Keir Starmer Tuesday announced plans to step down as a member of Parliament from London to focus on "international affairs". Starmer, who resigned as Labour leader and PM to be succeeded at 10 Downing Street by Andy Burnham last month, had previously...