At a time when countless women in India are daily becoming victims of male chauvinism and gender discrimination, two women of the country have made Indians proud by winning coveted prizes on the world stage with their sterling performances. Payal Kapadia and Anasuya Sengupta have brought laurels from the Mecca of cinema - Cannes. Payal became the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is reeling under intense heatwave conditions, with day temperatures rising to above 40 degrees Celsius in as many as 17 locations in the state. Boudh became the hottest place in the state with mercury rising to an unprecedented 45.9 degrees Celsius, followed by 45.3 degrees Celsius in Sonepur and 45 degrees Celsius in Titlagarh. In...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said he decided to ‘sacrifice’ his good relations with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for ‘the welfare of Odisha’. He said this during an interview with news agency ANI while responding to a question over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) decision to not ally with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) -...

Bhubaneswar: Hours after Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that Naveen Patnaik would become a former chief minister after counting of votes on June 4, the ruling BJD president on Tuesday said that the saffron party will meet the same electoral fate as in Karnataka, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh. Patnaik in a video message said: “The Bhartiya...

Bhubaneswar:  Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer Nikunja Bihari Dhal Tuesday ordered an investigation into the breaking of an EVM allegedly by a sitting MLA who is also a BJP assembly poll candidate Prasanta Jagadev. On May 26, the police arrested Jagadev on the charge of vandalizing the EVM inside a booth under Begunia assembly segment where he had...

Heaps of garbage float on recently renovated Taladanda canal waters in Cuttack   Menstrual Hygiene Day observed by 'Aaina' organisation in a Bhubaneswar hotel   Concrete steps constructed on Mahanadi riverbank near Bali Yatra ground in Cuttack lay unrepaired months after they collapsed

BHUBANESWAR: The Election Commission of India has initiated significant action in response to allegations of undue influence in the ongoing Odisha Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha had reported instances of interference by senior officials in a communication dated May 27, 2024. The Election Commission highlighted the involvement of DS Kutey,...

Lahore: Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had "violated" an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf. "On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee Saheb came here and made...

New Delhi: The penultimate phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections recorded 63.37 per cent voter turnout with 7.05 crore out of 11.13 crore eligible voters exercising their franchise, the Election Commission of India Tuesday said. As many as 58 seats in eight states went to polls in the sixth phase May 25. Of the 87.54 crore...

Aizawl: At least 22 people, including 13 in a collapsed stone quarry, were killed in Mizoram Tuesday due to landslides and incessant rain in the aftermath of cyclone 'Remal', officials said. In a massive landslide, at least 13 people, including two minors, were killed and eight others were missing as a stone quarry collapsed in Aizawl district,...