Angul: In a tragic fallout of teenage love, a minor girl committed suicide at the Sakhi Centre on the premises of the district headquarters hospital in Angul Saturday, hours after her boyfriend took the extreme step. Sources said the 13-year-old girl was found hanging inside a toilet of the facility. She was a resident of Samakoi village...

Washington: President Donald Trump was uninjured, and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries, and one law-enforcement official said a shooter had opened fire. Authorities said the incident occurred outside the ballroom...

Krzysztof Płomiski An update on the American-Israeli attack on Iran, launched on 28 February and carried out outside the framework of regional law, marks a new phase in the broader Middle East, with implications for global events. For the affected region, the war signals the beginning of the formation of a vaguely defined order, aligned with the...

Avilash Roul In the absence of an official explanation on India’s quiet withdrawal from hosting the earlier wished UN climate summit in 2028, it’s anybody’s guess now. Not the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MOEFCC) of India, the focal point for the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), but the spokesperson of the Ministry...

Aakar Patel A story under this headline was reported this month: ‘No Muslim name finds place in BJP’s Bengal list’. The story went on to provide readers with the numbers—that is to say, how many tickets were distributed and so on—but beyond that headline, there is not much to add. This does not surprise most of us,...

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New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh Saturday accused the BJP of getting the party's Facebook and Instagram pages suspended in Gujarat. Singh said AAP's posts were viewed by 8 crore people in just 28 days, which, has "unnerved" the BJP. "The Aam Aadmi Party is steadily expanding in Gujarat and is fighting on the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's opposition BJD and Congress Saturday described the scheduled special session of the assembly April 30 to discuss 'Participation of women in Indian Democracy' as a "drama" and politically motivated. The state's ruling BJP, on the other hand, claimed that the opposition parties are blocking the means to implement the women's quota in the legislature. The...

Washington: President Donald Trump said Saturday that US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will no longer be going to Pakistan for talks with Iran, contending that Washington held all the cards on the matter. Trump told Fox News that it's not worth the US delegation making the 18-hour flight to Pakistan when the US holds all...

Bhubaneswar: If things go well, Odisha will soon get 219 new veterinary hospitals and diagnostic laboratories, as pacts were inked with six public sector undertakings (PSUs) in this regard, on the occasion of World Veterinary Day, Saturday. Attending the state-level programme for World Veterinary Day organised here, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated new buildings of 76...