Brahmapur: Several traders in Odisha's Ganjam district observed "No UPI Day" Friday in protest against the proposed Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain UPI transactions. Holding placards and banners, members of the Ganjam Chamber of Commerce (GCC) took out a protest rally in Brahmapur, raising...
Kolkata: The gulf between India and five-time world champions Brazil may be enormous, but India head coach Khalid Jamil wants his players to embrace rather than be overwhelmed by the occasion, urging them to "handle the pressure", keep things "simple" and give their best when...
New Delhi: Three new judges are likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court next week, sources said Friday. The Supreme Court collegium had September 29 recommended the elevation of three high court chief justices to the top court. Sources aware of the appointment procedure...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said students have exercised their constitutional right and protested against "vote chori" as he asserted that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will go and the system that put him there will go too. In a post in Hindi...
Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday said that the attacker in the Flydubai incident underwent Islamist radicalisation and intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board. “As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer. Yaniv and his heroic companions prevented a...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Friday launched the ‘Shishu Shram Mukta Gram Panchayat’ (Child Labour-Free Gram Panchayat) campaign, a 44-day statewide awareness drive aimed at making the state free from the menace of child labour. Announcing the launch of the campaign, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said...
Brahmapur: A railway gangman died after being struck by a Bhubaneswar-Visakhapatnam inter-state express train while carrying out track maintenance work near Chhatrapur railway station in Ganjam district Friday. The deceased was identified as 58-year-old K Gobind Patra, a resident of Phasidi under Ganjam district’s Khallikote...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Commission for Women (SCW) has sought a report from the Bhubaneswar Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) on the alleged rape of a woman at gunpoint at her home in Bhubaneswar Wednesday night. A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped at gunpoint by a...
New Delhi: The government has proposed decriminalising regulatory breaches such as violations of petroleum licence terms and introducing a civil-penalty regime, while retaining or strengthening criminal penalties for serious offences involving public safety, critical infrastructure and unauthorised petroleum operations. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural...
Kakamigahara: India ended a 44-year wait for the Asian Games women's hockey gold and qualified for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics with a performance built on one stunning strike and an extraordinary rearguard action, upstaging defending champions and Olympic silver-medallists China 1-0 in the final...
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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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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