Islamabad: Pakistan Sunday said nearly 800 Afghan Taliban terrorists have been killed in the ongoing operation launched by the security forces in Afghanistan. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar shared the latest update on operation Ghazab lil-Haq, giving a summary of the losses suffered by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also called Fitna Al Khawarij (FAK) and Afghan Taliban. Tarar...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD and Congress Sunday demanded provision of reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) students on the basis of their population ratio in Odisha and not just 11.25 per cent as announced by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. The CM Saturday announced that the state cabinet has approved a proposal to raise the quotas...

Bengaluru: Devdutt Padikkal and Tim David hit a strong fifties as Royal Challengers Bengaluru rode on a superlative top-order show to post the highest total of this IPL season, a mammoth 250 for 3 against Chennai Super Kings here Sunday. Sent in to bat, Padikkal slammed a 29-ball 50, while opener Philip Salt made a 30-ball 46...

Sonepur: The Odisha Police Sunday arrested two persons and seized 3,750 cough syrup bottles worth around Rs 20 lakh from their possession in Sonepur district, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, a police team intercepted a van in Sonepur town and seized the cough syrup bottles hidden beneath soft drink bottles, SP Narayan Nayak said. The cough...

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New York: A US Air Force officer whose jet was shot down in Iran hid in a mountain crevice and hiked up to 7,000 feet to evade the enemy before he was rescued by the American forces after a two-day life-or-death mission, the New York Times said. Sunday, US President Donald Trump called an amazing show of...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) Sunday said that its revenue generation will remain unaffected even after the transfer of the Palasa-Ichchapuram section to the South Coast Railway (SCoR). The ECoR issued this clarification after all opposition political parties in Odisha, including BJD and Congress, announced that they would jointly protest the Railway Board's decision to transfer...

Bhubaneswar: A clash broke out between two groups in Odisha's Malkangiri district, a senior police officer said Sunday. The incident took place at a tribal-populated Palkonda village Saturday evening over the holding of prayer by a particular group of people in the village, the police officer said. "The disturbance erupted between the two groups as one majority...

Balasore: The Odisha police have registered an FIR over the death of actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee, who allegedly drowned during a shoot of a Bengali television serial at Talsari beach in Balasore district, officials said Sunday. Banerjee, 43, drowned during a TV serial shooting at Talsari beach in Odisha March 29 by accidentally slipping into seawater. He...

Chandigarh: Punjab Police has arrested two alleged perpetrators of a recent blast outside the BJP headquarters in Chandigarh, taking the total number of arrests in the case to seven, a senior police officer said Sunday. The arrested are allegedly part of an ISI-backed module, and they were taking directions from their handlers based in Germany and Portugal,...