New Delhi: Taking serious note of the allegations of harassment of a minor girl who participated in the July Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests, the Supreme Court Thursday said nobody can be permitted to browbeat a victim or her family for pursuing criminal proceedings. A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana...

New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA has ordered drug tests for pilots across all airlines and the exercise is to be completed by July 2027, according to sources. Separately, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu Thursday said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is expected to finalise the draft on the new norms for drug tests of...

Rayagada: A tusker was killed after being hit by a train engine on the Bissam Cuttack-Theruballi rail route near Brundabhadi in Rayagada district’s Bissam Cuttack block, officials said Thursday. According to preliminary information, a banker light engine was travelling at high speed near kilometre post 312/5-7 when it collided head-on with the elephant. The impact threw the...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday invited UAE-based stainless steel downstream industry players to invest in Odisha, pitching the state as a key destination for value-added manufacturing, backed by its rich mineral resources, established industrial ecosystem and growing infrastructure. Addressing a high-level roundtable with leading stainless steel downstream industries in Dubai on the second day of...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Department Thursday arrested two government officials in separate cases of alleged misappropriation of funds, an official statement said. The arrested officials have been identified as Chintamani Mallick, former secretary of Juba Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society (PACS) under Belpada block in Balangir district, and Ashis Naik, then forester in Athagada forest division, currently posted...

Jajpur: A court in Odisha's Jajpur district Thursday sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for murdering her husband by strangling him with a mobile charger cable. Additional District and Sessions Judge Bisweswar Biswoprakash Ray also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict, Mamata Kuanr. Following a family dispute, Mamata allegedly strangled her husband Atal...

New Delhi: The Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) Thursday announced a September 19-24 padyatra in Ladakh after their talks with the Union Home Ministry 'failed' to make progress, with LAB chairman Chering Dorjey Lakruk expressing anguish over the "differential treatment" meted out to protesters in Ladakh compared with those in Delhi. The delegation...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday ordered a probe into the circumstances under which five baby orangutans were brought to the state, saying Odisha will not be allowed to become a transit route for illegal wildlife trafficking. Majhi, who is on a five-day business tour of the UAE, expressed deep concern over the rescue of the...

Chandigarh: The convoy of Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Kewal Singh Dhillon was allegedly attacked by workers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Thursday, but he and other senior party leaders escaped unhurt. The attack took place when Dhillon was on his way to Toor Banjara village in Dirba in Sangrur district to offer condolences to...

Beijing: Twenty-five people were killed and five others injured when a fire broke out on a foreign-flagged cargo ship undergoing repairs in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao, state media reported Thursday. The fire broke out at around 11:15 a.m. when the ship was undergoing maintenance at China State Shipbuilding Corporation Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.,...