Balasore: Launching a scathing attack on the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday asserted that if the saffron party returns to power, both democracy and the Constitution will be at risk. Speaking at an election rally in Odisha's Balasore parliamentary constituency, Kharge emphasised, "In this election, if you don't defeat the BJP,...

Balasore: India Wednesday successfully flight-tested the RudraM-II air-to-surface missile off the coast of Odisha, defence sources said. The flight test met all the trial objectives, validating the propulsion system and control & guidance algorithm, they said. RudraM-II is an indigenously developed solid-propelled air-launched missile system meant for the air-to-surface role to neutralise various types of enemy assets....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday said that he was in good health and campaigning for the Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections for the past one month. "He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) has stated publicly earlier that I am his good friend. All he had to do was pick up a telephone and ask me...

Bengaluru: A Special Court here Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of suspended JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women, in a rape case. The special court for Elected Representative dismissed the bail application moved by his advocate Arun. According to official sources, Prajwal has booked a return flight ticket to...

Gonda(UP): Two youths were killed and a woman injured after being hit by a vehicle that was allegedly in the cavalcade of BJP candidate from Kaiserganj Karan Bhushan Singh in Gonda Wednesday, police said. Karan Singh is the son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is the Kaiserganj MP and the former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)...

New Delhi: Delhi's Mungeshpur area Wednesday logged a maximum of 52.3 degree Celsius, the highest ever temperature recorded in the city, officials said. The weather station Tuesday in the northwest Delhi locality recorded 49.9 degrees Celsius. A day later, the temperature rose further with the weather station recording a maximum temperature of 52.3 degree Celsius at 4.14...

Aizawl: A day after 25 bodies were recovered from debris caused by massive landslides due to incessant rain across Mizoram, rescue operations continued Wednesday to locate missing persons, an official report said. According to the morning bulletin of the Mizoram State Disaster Management Authority (MSDMA), rescue operations began early morning to find the missing people at several...

New Delhi: Prominent Indian celebrities, including Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor Khan, have shown solidarity with Palestine after an Israeli airstrike on a camp in Rafah killed 45 people. Israel has faced condemnation for the strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that local health officials said killed at least 45 Palestinians, including...

Mumbai: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty declined nearly 1 per cent Wednesday, falling for the fourth day running amid profit-taking by cautious investors ahead of the results of the Lok Sabha polls. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 667.55 points or 0.89 per cent to settle at 74,502.90. It went below the 75,000 mark to hit the...

Srinagar: The Army Wednesday rebutted allegations that its soldiers had beaten up some policemen in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kupwara district. An Army statement said, “An altercation between police and Army personnel and beating up therein of police personnel are misfounded and incorrect. Minor differences between the police personnel and a territorial army unit on an operational matter...