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Bhubaneswar: In an aim to expand its base, ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Monday launched a membership drive targeting an increase in its total number of members to one crore from 47 lakh. Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik launched the programme here at...

Mumbai: India's Nitin Menon will make his Test debut after being appointed as an on-field umpire for the upcoming Test match between Afghanistan and West Indies to be held in Dehradun from November 27. According to the BCCI, Nitin is the son of former international...

New Delhi: The government's decision to consolidate 10 public sector banks (PSB) into four mega state-owned lenders will act as a building block for achieving $5 trillion economy target, Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has said. "To support next level of growth, the country needed big...

New Delhi:  Coal India (CIL) Sunday said its production in August fell by 10.3 per cent to 34.77 million tonnes. CIL's production in the same month a year ago stood at 38.78 million tonnes. Coal off-take during August too contracted by 10.4 per cent to...

Kendrapara: At least two police personnel were charred to death in a LPG cylinder blast while cooking food at their rented house at Kharinasi under Mahakalapara block in Kendrapara district, Sunday. The deceased police personnel identified as Prakash Chandra Ray, 41, of Badabhuin under Rajranpur...

Bhubaneswar:  In a shot in the arm for the Capital city’s infrastructural growth, Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Minister, Pratap Jena, announced projects worth more than Rs 500 crore on the occasion of Bhubaneswar Development Authority’s (BDA) foundation day. Speaking on the 37th anniversary of...

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Environmental Society Bhubaneswar organised a seminar on to discuss measures to stop water wastage here Sunday. Addressing the gathering, president of the society Sundar Narayan Patra said, “More than 70 percent of the surface of Earth is covered by water yet only 0.014...

BHUBANESWAR: Nexus Malls has announced Ayushmann Khurrana as its ‘Happyness Ambassador’ for Esplanade One and the other malls in its portfolio. Celebrating three years of successfully operating in India, the announcement by ‘Nexus Malls’ makes them the first Indian retail real estate company to have...

Mother Nature has bestowed us with her bountiful beauties. Odisha— the land of famed forests, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, gorges, soaring peaks with stunning wildlife in their own natural habitats— has been her favourite. Here comes, Sureswari waterfall, one of the lesser-known beauties BHUBANESWAR: There are...

Washington: The US Sunday is expected to hit billions of dollars worth of Chinese products with 15 per cent duties, in the first of two rounds of new tariffs, a move that will further escalate the ongoing trade war between the two economic giants. So...