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Parts of central and southern Nepal including some areas of Kathmandu valley have been inundated due to incessant rains since last two weeks.

113 killed in floods, landslides in Nepal

Kathmandu: Floods and landslides triggered by incessant monsoon rains across Nepal have claimed at least 113 lives while 38 people are still missing, officials said Sunday. Parts of central and southern Nepal including some areas of Kathmandu valley have been inundated due to incessant rains...

Balurghat: Farmers plant rice saplings in a paddy field during monsoon season at a village near Balurghat, in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal, Saturday, July 13, 2019. (PTI Photo) (PTI7_13_2019_000083B)

India rice exports may hit seven-year low

Mumbai: India’s rice exports are likely to fall to their lowest level in seven years, industry officials say, as weak demand from African countries weighs and shippers absorb the absence of government incentives that supported previous sales. Lower shipments from India will help rivals such...

Making privacy controls more easily accessible: Google CEO

San Francisco: Google is working towards making privacy controls more easily accessible, expanding its incognito mode to maps and adding new auto delete controls, the company's CEO Sundar Pichai has said. "And we continue to challenge the notion that products need more data to be...

Karnataka Bank eyes Rs 1,500 cr biz in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Karnataka Bank expects to post Rs 1,500 crore of business in Odisha with a growth rate of 50 per cent in this financial year, said MS Mahabaleshwara Bhatt, MD and CEO of the bank, Friday. “Our total turnover in Odisha was Rs 1000 crore...

Sensex snaps 6-session falling streak; Yes Bank soars 10 pc

Mumbai: Snapping its six-session falling streak, equity benchmark BSE Sensex ended 51.81 points higher on Friday, led by select finance and private bank stocks. While subdued corporate earnings, foreign fund outflows and weak global cues continue to weigh on the markets, hopes of above-average rainfall...

Halt Polavaram work, Sasmit tells Centre

New Delhi: Apprising the Rajya Sabha of the destructions to be caused by the Polavaram project, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Sasmit Patra Friday urged the Union government to stop construction of controversial Indirasagar Polavaram project on River Godavari. The BJD legislator said in the...

Preserving our musical, intellectual legacy

Simadri Panigrahi is a music geek with a special interest in collecting gramophone records, music CDs and all types of books. For him, playing the records of Akshay Mohanty is soul fulfilling as music instantly bonds personal feelings with lyrics. His substantial collection of music...

Govt appoints 500 ASOs in Secretariat

Bhubaneswar: The state government Friday appointed 500 new assistant section officers (ASOs) at the state Secretariat here, a day after the Opposition raised its concern over vacancies in the state government departments. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik handed over the appointment letters to the new recruits...

 

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