Netanyahu calls Modi ‘personal friend’, envisions regional alliance including India

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Jerusalem: Describing India as a global power and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a personal friend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday talked about his vision of a hexagon of alliances in and around the region that will include India. This week, expression will be given to the special relationship that has been forged over recent years between Israel and the global power that is India, and between me and...

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Israeli Opposition raises objections over Modi’s Knesset address

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Jerusalem: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expected visit here is getting entangled in Israel's domestic politics, with Opposition leader Yair Lapid threatening to boycott his parliamentary address unless the Supreme Court chief is invited for it, as per convention. Modi is expected to arrive in Israel February 25 for a two-day visit, during which he is likely to address the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac...

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PM Modi slams ‘shirtless protest’ at AI summit, calls Congress ‘ideologically bankrupt’

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Meerut: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday came down heavily on Congress over its youth wing's recent shirtless protest at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 and said that the demonstration showed that the "oldest party of the country has become ideologically bankrupt". This came just days after the Youth Congress members carried out a protest inside New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam during the high-profile India-AI Impact Summit, raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra...

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Jammu and Kashmir: Three JeM terrorists killed in encounter with security forces in Kishtwar

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Jammu: Three members of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district Sunday, officials said. The bodies of all the slain terrorists were charred beyond recognition as the mud house they were hiding in caught fire during the gunfight, they said, adding that preliminary assessments by security agencies suggest that one of the deceased is Saifullah, a notorious JeM...

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AIYF hosts state-level young women’s meet

Bhubaneswar: Odisha state council of All India Youth Federation (AIYF) Sunday organised a state-level Young Women’s Convention at Bhagwati Bhavan chaired by Aparna Routray. The convention highlighted a range of issues affecting young women across the country, including rising unemployment, growing incidents of violence against women, gender discrimination, and concerns over access to education under the National...

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Scientist–farmer meet to boost livestock productivity

Bhubaneswar: A farmers’ training and scientist–farmer interaction programme was organised recently in President Droupadi Murmu’s village in Rairangpur, Mayurbhanj, bringing together experts and over 200 farmers from Uperbeda, Hatabadra, Aharabandha and Kusumi villages. The programme was jointly conducted by Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, and ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (ICAR-NIANP), Bangalore....

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IMD forecasts light rain, thunderstorms

Bhubaneswar: Odisha may see a change in weather as a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Sunday. According to the IMD, a well-marked low-pressure area over the southwest Bay of Bengal continued at 2:30 pm Sunday. The system is expected to move west-northwestwards and then recurve...

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RBI builds high-security data centre in Odisha

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India has built a high-security data centre in Odisha, strategically located well away from potential cross-border threat zones and high seismic-risk regions, as part of efforts to safeguard critical financial infrastructure and strengthen continuity of core systems. The greenfield facility in Bhubaneswar is designed to house core computing systems supporting the...

Odisha Higher Education Department

Rs 1.73cr sanctioned to upgrade 12 institutions

Bhubaneswar: The state Higher Education department has sanctioned Rs 1.73 crore for the development of 11 colleges and one university across Odisha under the ‘Ama Gourav Ama College’ scheme, aimed at strengthening infrastructure and academic facilities in higher educational institutions. Among the institutions set to benefit from the initiative are Ravenshaw University, Agalpur Panchayat Samiti (Degree) College,...

Odisha Farmers-Mann Ki Baat

Modi lauds Odisha farmer’s success story

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged an Odisha farmer who has secured extra income through better land use and water savings, in his monthly radio broadcast, “Mann Ki Baat”, Sunday. The PM also mentioned a Kerala village’s success in growing 570 varieties of rice in a single field. Modi said the results of the country’s farmers’...

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Mother, son get life term for dowry murder

Boinda: In a 30-year-old dowry harassment and murder case in the Athmallik NAC area of Angul district, a local court handed down life imprisonment to a man and his mother, sources said. The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ranjan Kumar Sutar at Athmallik Friday pronounced the verdict in the case. The court convicted the husband...

Bride Abduction

Bride abducted at gunpoint

Bolangir/Tarbha/Sonepur: A newlywed bride was allegedly abducted at gunpoint while returning home with the groom after their wedding in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The groom, Haribandhu Putel, alias Rinku, of Kamakhi Nagar in Bolangir town, had married Chandini, alias Rashmi, of Rathapada under Kantamal police limits in Boudh district earlier Saturday. According to police,...

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Epistemic pluralism in research

The Indian ethos of inquiry and knowledge creation, Bharatiya Anusandhan Parampara, is a legacy that pre-dates recorded civilisational histories. Rooted in the ancient system of logic, observation, and interpretation, the Indian research tradition has contributed paradigms that transformed human understanding across disciplines. Today, as India navigates global scientific competitiveness and socio-technological complexity, this tradition must serve as...

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BLUEPRINT FOR DOMINATION

The 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) was held from 13th to 15th February, where more than forty heads of state and government were in attendance. However, most of the leaders were from Europe and were fundamentally concerned about technological and geopolitical challenges to European security and the future of the transatlantic alliance (NATO) led by the US....

 

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