Bhubaneswar: The Gajapati Maharaja and chairman of Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee (SJTMC) Dibyasingha Deb has written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking their intervention to stop ISKCON from holding untimely 'Snan Yatra' and Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath across the globe by deviating from the age-old tradition and hurting religious sentiments of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) will be integrated with Indonesia’s payment system, which will enable tourists and businesses to make cross-border retail payments more easily by using their domestic payment apps. Addressing a joint press conference with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta, PM Modi said, "We are...

New Delhi: US-based artificial intelligence giant OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced service disruptions Tuesday, with users reporting issues across several features, including Codex, Custom GPTs and workspace analytics, while the company said it is working to resolve the remaining problems. According to outage tracking platform Downdetector, user complaints increased between 1 pm and 2 pm. Around 75 per cent...

Los Angeles: The first reactions to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which was screened to the members of the film press, are here and the critics have hailed the director's adaptation of Homer's epic as a "staggering achievement", "a feast" and a "spectacular epic". Nolan will be in India over the weekend for the film's premiere here with...

New Delhi: Markets regulator Sebi has notified rules to reintroduce share buybacks through stock exchanges, allowing companies to repurchase their own shares in the open market starting August 1, while capping the execution period at 66 working days. The new rules by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) allow firms to carry out share buybacks...

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay is not an accused in the Karur stampede case, and the court cannot regulate his visits, the Supreme Court said Tuesday as it pulled up the DMK for its plea questioning the visit and alleging that ministers were influencing witnesses in the matter. A partial working day bench...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate Tuesday conducted searches at multiple locations in Kolkata as part of an investigation linked to routing of alleged suspect funds in the bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress, officials said.  They said about five premises are being covered in the capital city of West Bengal. Preliminary probe suggests that funds worth more than...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Crime Branch Tuesday questioned all 20 accused arrested in the high-profile Soumya death case at Jharpada Special Jail in Bhubaneswar as part of its ongoing investigation. A two-member Crime Branch team, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Ratnaprabha Satpathy, interrogated the accused persons individually inside the jail. The questioning focused on the sequence of events...

Visakhapatnam: The Indian Navy and the Coast Guard continued their search and rescue operation for six fishermen who went missing off the coast of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam for the third day Tuesday. Two ships and two helicopters of the Coast Guard continued the search on the basis of information given by a fisherman, who was rescued by...

Jakarta: Supplying BrahMos missiles to the Indonesian military, boosting maritime security, and strengthening critical mineral supply chains emerged as key outcomes from talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto Tuesday. The two sides inked nearly a dozen agreements to significantly bolster two-way cooperation in several areas, including critical minerals, technology, food security, medicines...