Cuttack: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday alleged that while PM Narendra Modi runs a government for billionaires from Delhi, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik leads a dispensation that works for "select people" in Odisha. Addressing an election rally in Cuttack's Salipur, Gandhi claimed that though the BJD and BJP were fighting the electoral battle against each other, in...

Imphal: One person was killed and three others injured in a gunfight between village volunteers of two warring communities in ethnic strife-torn Manipur's Kangpokpi district Sunday, police said. Dozens of gunmen had attacked Koutruk in Imphal West district Sunday morning from elevated hilltops of neighbouring Kangpokpi district prompting village volunteers deployed in the fringe village to retaliate,...

Puri: Four workers were injured when a portion of an under-construction building of Puri railway station collapsed Sunday, officials said. When the incident occurred, six labourers were working at the site, of which four suffered injuries. All the injured workers have been shifted to hospital and are currently out of danger, East Coast Railway (ECoR) said in...

Cuttack: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday paid tributes to Madhusudan Das, popularly known as Madhu Babu on his 176th birth anniversary. Soon after arriving at Bhubaneswar airport, Rahul visited the birthplace of Madhu Babu near Satyabhamapur in Odisha's Cuttack district. He paid floral tributes to the statue of Madhu Babu and interacted with girl students. Then, Gandhi...

Bhubaneswar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and BJP president JP Nadda will address election rallies in different parts of Odisha Sunday. Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address an election rally at Salepur in Cuttack district around 1 pm, and also visit Satyabhamapur to pay tributes to 'Utkal Gourav' Madhusudan Das, AICC general secretary and the party's Odisha in-charge...

New Delhi: In a huge setback to the Congress, its Delhi unit chief Arvinder Singh Lovely has resigned from the party post. This comes amid the ongoing seven-phase Lok Sabha elections and Delhi is scheduled to go to polls May 25. In a four-page letter to party president Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday, Arvinder Singh Lovely expressed anguish over...

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has decided to form a Special Investigation Team to probe an alleged sex scandal involving Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna. Prajwal is the grandson of JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda. He was the NDA candidate in the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, which went to polls April 26. The JD(S)...

Kohima: People made a beeline to neighbouring Assam to buy essential commodities as the indefinite shutdown of businesses to protest "extortion" by Naga political groups threw normal life out of gear in Nagaland, with the stir entering the third day Sunday. The shutdown was called by the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industries (DCCI) on Friday also...

Jerusalem: Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed shooting down another of the US military's MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft. The Houthis said they shot down the Reaper with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull...

Imphal: A gun battle broke out between village volunteers of the two warring communities in ethnic-strife torn Manipur's Imphal West district Sunday morning, police said. The incident took place as several dozens of armed men opened indiscriminate fire on Koutruk village in the periphery of Imphal Valley from the adjoining hills in Kangpokpi district, a police officer...