New Delhi: Nine of the top-10 most-valued firms together added Rs 1,85,320.49 crore in market valuation last week, with Reliance Industries Ltd and HDFC Bank stealing the show with maximum gains, in line with rally in equities. Last week, the BSE benchmark zoomed 1,404.45 points, or 1.89 per cent. The 30-share BSE Sensex hit its all-time intra-day...

Bhubaneswar: A voter turnout of 71 per cent was recorded in Odisha's six Lok Sabha seats and 42 Assembly constituencies where polling was held simultaneously in the state's third round, an official said Sunday. Of the 94,48,553 voters, 70.99 per cent exercised their franchise Saturday across 10,581 booths in Sambalpur, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Puri Lok...

Bhubaneswar: Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha Sunday announced the results of annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination 2024. BSE President Srikant Tarai informed that around 5.41 lakh regular students had appeared in the Class-X board examination this year and the overall pass percentage is 96.07%. Students can check their scores online by visiting the board’s official...

Kendrapara: Lakhs of baby turtles have broken out of their eggshells and crawled towards the seawaters of the Gahirmatha coast in Odisha's Kendrapara district, marking the culmination of the annual sojourn of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles. The whole of Nasi-2 Island is teeming with baby turtles and wildlife officials of Bhitarkanika national park stationed at these...

Bhubaneswar: A string of actors of the Odia film industry cast their votes during the third phase of the simultaneous elections in the state- for six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly segments – Saturday. After casting their votes at different polling booths in the state Capital, actors Babushaan Mohanty, Partha Sarthi Ray, Arindam Roy, Sailendra Samantaray, Anu...

Mumbai: Actress Huma Qureshi hopes brands and companies that spend a whopping amount of money sending people who have nothing to do with films will now find a way to support small and independent films. Huma’s comments come after Anasuya Sengupta became the first Indian actor to win the Best Actress award at the Un Certain Regard...

Kolkata: Cyclone 'Remal' intensified into a severe cyclonic storm Sunday morning and is likely to make landfall between Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coasts by midnight of Sunday with maximum sustained wind speed of 110-120 km per hour gusting to 135 kmph, the Met department said. The severe cyclone is set to bring extremely heavy rain in...

Rajkot: Members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) held a meeting with local administration in Gujarat's Rajkot city in the wee hours of Sunday in connection with the fire at a game zone fire here that left 27 persons dead and three injured. The bodies were charred beyond recognition. The DNA samples of the bodies and the...

New Delhi: A massive fire broke out at a children's hospital in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar, leaving seven newborns dead, officials said Sunday. The officials of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said the blaze broke out at the children's hospital in Shahdara Saturday night. Twelve newborns were rescued from the medical facility but seven of them died,...

Pattamundai: Gobari river, which was the lifeline of Kendrapara district once upon a time, is inching towards extinction and urgently awaiting revival. What is left of the Gobari river now is only a grim reminder of its glorious past, gasping for survival. There was a time when the Gobari river used to be a blessing for the...