Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Saturday placed all district administrations on alert and directed authorities to prepare for any weather-related emergency after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast more heavy rainfall and issued a red warning for five districts. The developments came after the low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a well-marked system, officials said. The...

Thuamul Rampur: Excise Department Saturday launched a major crackdown on illicit liquor production and sale in several villages under Talnagi panchayat in Kalahandi district after residents submitted a petition to the district administration highlighting the growing social and economic impact of the illicit trade. Acting on the directions of District Collector Sachin Pawar and under the supervision...

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Srinagar: Security forces Saturday launched a cordon and search operation (CASO) in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district after receiving inputs about presence of terrorists, officials said. "A CASO was launched in Meemandar area of Shopian," an official said, adding that the operation was prompted by inputs regarding the presence of terrorists in the area. Security forces have...

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: Odisha Crime Branch Saturday claimed to have cracked an over two-year-old murder case in which the police had found a pair of slippers of different sizes, along with a body which was too decomposed to be identified, a senior officer said. The body was recovered from an abandoned well inside a jungle in Mayurbhanj district in...

Rayagada: A cache of firearms and ammunition were recovered from inside a reserve forest in Odisha's Rayagada district, officials said Saturday. The suspected Maoist dump was unearthed inside the Raghubari Reserve Forest in the Ambadala police station area during a joint operation by the District Voluntary Force (DVF) and the Special Operations Group (SOG) on July 2....

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday greeted President Donald Trump and the people of the United States on the 250th anniversary of America's independence and said the two countries' shared belief in democracy and the rule of law, and the limitless potential of their people make the friendship a force for global good. Modi asserted that...

New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)'s protest at Jantar Mantar entered its 15th day Saturday, drawing fresh political support from AAP MP Sanjay Singh and CPI(M) MP John Brittas, while climate activist Sonam Wangchuk continued the seventh day of his hunger strike. All India Students' Association (AISA) said one of its fasting student leaders was hospitalised after...

Bhubaneswar: Vice President CP Radhakrishnan is scheduled to visit Odisha July 9 during which he will take part in the convocation ceremony of a central research institute and attend other events, officials said. Chief Secretary Anu Garg Saturday reviewed arrangements for the vice president's visit, they said. Radhakrishnan is scheduled to attend the national launch programme of...

New York: US Department of Justice has forcefully defended its decision to abandon the criminal case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and seven others, telling a federal judge the prosecution was legally flawed, diplomatically counterproductive and inconsistent with the Trump administration's enforcement priorities. In a sharply worded 10-page filing, the DOJ said the case "should have been...