New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday approved various proposals for buying military hardware at a total cost of about Rs 67,000 crore. Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) was accorded for the procurement of Thermal Imager-based Driver Night...
Kendrapara: More than 1,500 baby saltwater crocodiles have broken out of their eggshells to make their way to water bodies in and around Odisha's Bhitarkanika National Park, officials said Tuesday. Bhitarkanika, according to forest officials, houses around 70 per cent of India's estuarine crocodile or...
Berhampur: A 35-year-old man was Tuesday arrested for allegedly duping a realtor of Rs 9 crore through a 'fake' investment scheme in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said. He was arrested based on a complaint lodged at the cybercrime police station here Saturday. The accused allegedly...
Balasore: Three days after four fishermen from Odisha who went missing after venturing into the sea, the body of one of them was recovered off the coast in Balasore district Tuesday, police said. While two others of the group were rescued, the fourth one is...
Bhubaneswar: With Odisha till Tuesday recording two per cent more rainfall than normal during the ongoing monsoon, the state has achieved about 60 per cent progress in planned crop area, a senior official said. The monsoon season, which begins in Odisha from June 1, has...
Bhawanipatna: A 60-year-old man was killed allegedly on suspicion of practising sorcery in Odisha's Kalahandi district, police said Tuesday. Four people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder, the police said. The deceased was identified as Raghu Patra of Kandama village under...
A video is going viral on social media that is bound to make you think. In the clip, a man is seen brutally thrashing a dog with a stick. But what happens next is shocking. The man is taught a lesson by locals that he’s...
Brussels: NATO has started coordinating regular deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine after the Netherlands said it would provide air defence equipment, ammunition and other military aid worth 500 million euros (USD 578 million). Sweden also announced Tuesday it would contribute USD 275 million...
New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday took a swipe at the government over US President Donald Trump's fresh trade threat against India with the iconic Mukesh song 'dost dost na raha' and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "huglomacy" has "completely collapsed". Congress general secretary in-charge...
New York: US President Donald Trump Tuesday said India has not been a good trading partner and announced that he will raise the tariffs on New Delhi "very substantially" over the next 24 hours because it is buying Russian oil. "With India, what people don't...
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