New Delhi: The Congress Monday rejected the directions of the Department of Telecommunications on pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app in new mobile handsets as unconstitutional, and demanded its immediate rollback. Congress general secretary K C Venugopal said that the right to privacy is an intrinsic part of the fundamental right to life and liberty. “Big Brother...

New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday attacked the Modi government over the filing of a fresh FIR in the National Herald case and said it is confident that the judiciary will see through this "political vendetta and mindless attempts to hound". Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said 12 years on, and suddenly, there is a new FIR in the...

Kolkata: As per the trend of digitisation of the enumeration forms collected by the booth-level officers (BLOs), the Election Commission of India (ECI) has estimated that 43.30 lakh names will be excluded from the draft voters' list, set to be published  December 16. However, sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, pointed...

Paralakhemundi: The Omfed dairy processing centre here has fallen into a state of disrepair. The facility, established to provide a stable market and incentives to local dairy farmers, has failed to meet its objectives and now lies neglected by the government, officials, and locals said. Large portions of the equipment, worth several crores of rupees, are reportedly...

Simulia: In an astonishing turn of events that villagers are calling a divine intervention, a man believed to have died 25 years ago, unexpectedly returned home Sunday night, leaving his family and the entire Bhagia village under this block in Balasore district in disbelief. Shukadev Debnath, 65, who had gone missing for more than two decades and...

Colombo: A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team rescued a nine-month pregnant woman in Sri Lanka's Puttalam district and moved her to a safer location as rescue and relief operations intensify across the island nation following the havoc caused by Cyclone Ditwah. The woman, after being safely evacuated, was given an immediate medical checkup. Indian rescue teams...

Khamar: A 25-year-old woman was brutally beaten and branded to death at Siarimalia village under the Khamar police limits in Pallahara subdivision of Angul district, police said Monday. The victim, identified as Manju Hembram, was allegedly killed by her husband, Sudarshan Hembram, 30, who suspected her of having an extramarital relationship. According to a complaint filed by...

Paralakhemundi/Cuttack: Two women tried to take their own lives in separate incidents during public grievance hearings of their respective Collectors in Gajapati and Cuttack districts Monday. In the first incident, a woman tried to commit suicide during a public grievance hearing at the district Collectorate in Paralakhemundi, alleging that she was denied justice and subjected to misconduct...

Koraput: Panic gripped the Lankaput panchayat under the Koraput block and district after 20 students went missing from the Lankaput Primary School hostel Sunday. Later, all 20 students, from Classes I to V, were found safe by their parents about nine kilometres away near a forested hill close to Putkerenga village. According to sources, tribal students from...

Rourkela: Smrutirekha Nayak of Chhend area here has earned a place in the Asia Book of Records for creating a unique Pattachitra of Lord Jagannath using Odia letters. She has also been honoured with the title of Grand Master for her art. Smrutirekha crafted the artwork using Odia letters from ‘A’ to ‘La’, incorporating exactly 12,976 letters...