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Washington: Indian professionals seeking employment-based US Green Cards continue to face waits stretching back more than a decade in key categories, even as the start of a new fiscal year has restored visa numbers and brought some movement, according to the US State Department's October...

Moscow: Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports. While Russian authorities have not confirmed her exact cause of death, the...

London: At least one person was killed while 11 others were rescued after a Russian drone strike caused a fire on a Turkish-owned civilian cargo vessel in the Black Sea carrying Indian and Azerbaijani citizens, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday. "A horrific strike by...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's opposition BJD Monday said Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar must resign, as he had "lied" that modification of Form 6 during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was approved by the Supreme Court. Earlier in the day, the apex court said...

New Delhi: A British Airways flight operating from London to Chicago declared an emergency while flying over Ireland, prompting the aircraft to squawk the 7700 emergency code and descend to around 9,000 feet, according to flight-tracking data Monday. According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, flight BA295...

Brahmapur: Drug inspectors in Odisha's Ganjam district have been directed to take stringent action against the sale of medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) kits and other abortion pills without prescriptions, officials said Monday. The move is aimed at protecting women's health, curbing illegal abortions and...

Bhubaneswar/Dhenkanal: Odisha Monday paid tributes to martyr Baji Rout, who sacrificed his life fighting against the British at the age of 12 in Dhenkanal district, on his birth anniversary, with Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati and Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi remembering his indomitable courage and...

New Delhi: Former civil servants and rights activists Monday demanded Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, issuing a "people's impeachment" notice that levelled six charges against him over the functioning of Election Commission and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The group, which...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered four FIRs in connection with alleged violence during NSUI's protest in Parliament Street area Monday, including cases related to purported stabbing of a CISF personnel, rioting, defacement and obstruction of public servants, officials said. As many as 18 people...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to identify five cities across the country for starting a pilot project to ensure properly demarcated and encroachment-free footpaths wherever there is a road. A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe also directed the...