Rayagada: Three men, including two masons and a daily-wage labourer, died after allegedly suffocating inside a septic tank at Tarpaguda under Padmapur police limits in Rayagada district. The deceased were identified as Harishchandra Bir, Prakash Lima and Alok Karada. According to reports, the three entered a septic tank one after another to clean it and subsequently lost...

Thuamul Rampur: Unemployment among youths in mining-affected areas of Kalahandi has reportedly triggered an exodus of workers to Keralam in search of better livelihood opportunities, raising questions over the availability of local employment. Despite large-scale bauxite extraction from the Baphlamali hills and the revenue generated from mining, unemployed youths from the affected areas are reportedly leaving for...

New Delhi:  A Delhi court Wednesday sent the son of the building owner, the PG operator, and the labour contractor arrested in connection with the Satya Niketan building collapse to two days of police custody. Judicial Magistrate Kautuk Bharadwaj passed the order after the Delhi Police sought three days’ custody of the three accused -- Mahesh Gupta,...

New Delhi: The eighth Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft carrying 35 tonnes of relief and rescue supplies took off for Kathmandu from New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Wednesday as Nepal struggles to recover from the devastating flash floods of August 26 which have caused widespread destruction, left over 1300 people dead and thousands...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday began the state’s investor outreach in the UAE with a high-level meeting with senior representatives of the International Holding Company (IHC), a leading Abu Dhabi-based investment group with interests across several strategic sectors, and the Adani Group. An Odisha government statement said that the meeting was attended by the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider exempting Class 6 students from its three-language policy for this academic year. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, while deferring the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the CBSE's three-language policy to September 17,...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday remanded back to Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) a matter in which market regulator SEBI had imposed a penalty of Rs 5.25 crore on Cairn India, a part of Vedanta Limited, for making a misleading announcement regarding the buyback of shares in 2014. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K...

Srinagar: Kashmiri Pandit employees, appointed under the Prime Minister's package and serving in the Valley, Wednesday set September 30 as the deadline for the authorities to provide them with the pending transit accommodation. The Kashmiri Pandit employees protested at the Press Colony here to demand early allotment of transit accommodation and a permanent solution to their housing...

Tehran: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed attacking two US vessels and eight oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in retaliation to a US attack on five Iranian tankers, Iranian state media reported Wednesday. In a statement published by its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said that its navy struck the vessels and inflicted...

Bengaluru: Karnataka will approach the Supreme Court challenging the orders issued by the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) and the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) directing the state to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu, Water Resources Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Cheluvarayaswamy said the...