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New Delhi: In a change of strategy, the Voter Adhikar Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other Mahagathbandhan leaders in Bihar will now conclude with a march in Patna instead of a rally September 1, with top leaders of the alliance addressing at...

Mumbai: The 10-day Ganesh festival began in Mumbai, Pune and other parts of Maharashtra Wednesday, with people enthusiastically welcoming their favourite elephant-headed god into their homes, housing complexes, and public pandals. Chants of ‘Ganpati Bappa Morya, Mangal Murti Morya' filled the morning air as small,...

Bhubaneswar: A portion of a wall and a shed of a platform in Odisha's Cuttack railway station collapsed during ongoing redevelopment work Wednesday, officials said. No casualty was reported, they said, adding that train movement was affected temporarily. Due to the wall collapse at platform...

Bhubaneswar: An Odisha Finance Service (OFS) officer has been arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000, Vigilance said Wednesday. The Vigilance sleuths arrested Sarita Barik, who was working as Assistant Commissioner of State Tax, Tuesday, and a case under the Prevention of...

Bhubaneswar: A day before the agrarian festival of Nuakhai, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday disbursed Rs 1,041 crore to the bank accounts of over 51 lakh farmers as the third instalment under the CM Kisan Yojana. Each beneficiary, mostly small and marginal farmers,...

Chandigarh: Hundreds of villages in Punjab along the swollen Satluj, Beas, and Ravi rivers were flooded Wednesday, severely affecting life and damaging crops after the floodgates of the Bhakra and Pong dams were opened. The inflow into these reservoirs had alarmingly increased due to torrential...

Los Angeles: Grammy-winning singer Taylor Swift and American football tight end Travis Kelce are officially engaged. The couple shared the big news on Instagram with a carousel of photos and wrote as the caption, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” The...

Mhow: India's armed forces must be prepared for all kinds of security challenges, including short-duration conflicts to even a five-year war in view of an unpredictable geopolitical environment, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Wednesday. In an address at the 'Ran Samvad' at the Army War...

Cuttack: Stating that public safety cannot be compromised for celebration, the Orissa High Court issued a host of directions to ensure smooth conduct of upcoming festivals in Cuttack, beginning with Ganesh Puja August 27. Taking suo motu cognisance of recurring "civic failures", a division bench...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will come up with a Heritage policy for conservation, preservation and beautification of over 3,000 heritage monuments across the state, Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida said here Tuesday. Parida said this after chairing a meeting organised to discuss conservation and beautification...