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New Delhi, July 4: A city court Wednesday reserved its order on Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's anticipatory bail plea for Thursday in a case relating to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death. The Thiruvananthapuram MP has already been summoned as an accused on July 7 in...

Puri: Daita servitors Tuesday applied specially-prepared Phuluri oil to Srimandir deities who are now undergoing medication for fever at the Anasara Gruha (asylum for sick) on Srimandir premises here following the Snana Purnima (bathing) ritual June 28. According to Srimandir tradition, Lord Jagannath and his...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Tuesday opened another series of 23 hybrid toilet complexes for public use. The new complexes are located at Ward – 3,4,9,13,18,25,29,32,36,37,41,45,48,52,55,57,62,63,64 and 67. BMC officials said the complexes would provide sanitary services to more than 5,500 people. In a process,...

Bhubaneswar: The recommendation for CBI probe into sinking of MV Black Rose off the Paradip coast in September 2009 has created a political uproar in the state. Opposition parties alleged involvement of a brother of an influential MLA of the ruling BJD, while the latter...

New Delhi: The Centre mulls spend up to `15,000 crore to protect minimum support prices that are to be announced at 150% of the input costs for crops, including paddy, coarse grains and some pulses. The decision is likely to be taken at the Cabinet...

Cuttack: Jyoti Kumari netted six goals as Odisha hammered Uttarakhand 17-0 to open their Sub-Junior Girl’s National football championships campaign Tuesday on a rousing note here at the Barabati Stadium. Jyoti (19th, 29th, 45th, 76th, 77th and 90th) achieved a double hat-trick while Manisha Naik...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar New railway station under East Coast Railway (ECoR) will become operational July 14 to coincide with Rath Yatra. The station is located between Mancheswar and Barang stations and is around 14 km from Bhubaneswar station at Master Canteen here. The trains which would...

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police Tuesday arrested two Congress activists on charges of damaging National Highway Authority of India’s (NHAI) properties worth lakhs of rupees during a protest in the office Monday against the recent waterlogging in front of ISKCON temple at Nayapalli. The arrested were identified...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday passed a slew of directions on police reforms in the country restraining all states and Union Territories from appointing any police officer as acting Directors General of Police (DGPs) to avoid favouritism and nepotism in such high-level appointments. The...

United Nations: UN chief Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the suicide attack in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city that killed 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus, asserting that any attack targeting civilians is unjustifiable and in clear violation of international law. The UN Secretary General expressed his...