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Chennai: Abhishek Sharma and Hardik Pandya struck blazing half-centuries as India thrashed Zimbabwe by 72 runs in their must-win Super 8 match to keep their semifinal hopes alive in the T20 World Cup Thursday. Abhishek smashed a brisk 30-ball 55 to provide early momentum, adding 48 runs for the opening wicket with Sanju Samson (24) after Zimbabwe...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has directed the state police and the home department to ensure proper training of police personnel on the constitutional requirement of furnishing written grounds of arrest to every person taken into custody. The order was passed last week by Justice Gourishankar Satapathy while hearing a bail plea in connection with the July...

Malkangiri: Villagers in several remote pockets of Odisha's Malkangiri district, previously considered a Maoist stronghold, have dismantled 20 'Naxal Smaraks', memorial structures set up by cadres of the banned CPI (Maoist), police said Thursday. Malkangiri SP Vinodh Patil said the structures were removed in Swabhiman Aanchal and interior areas of Kalimela, Mathili, and Khairput in the district....

Bhubaneswar: Some documents stored inside the record room of the Odisha Lokayukta office were gutted in a minor fire that broke out following a suspected electrical short circuit Thursday, an official said. The blaze broke out in one part of the record room of the office located inside the Toshali Bhawan in Satyanagar area around 10 am,...

Chennai: Opener Abhishek Sharma returned to form with a fine half-century as India rode on an aggressive batting display to post the highest total of this T20 World Cup, an imposing 256/4, against Zimbabwe in their must-win Super 8 clash Thursday. Abhishek, who had endured three successive ducks at the start of the competition, struck a brisk...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday sent five Youth Congress workers arrested in connection with the protest during the India AI Impact Summit to three days’ police custody. The Patiala House Court sent the accused - Saurabh, Arbaaz, Siddharth, Ajay and Raja Gurjar - to police custody and directed that they be produced before the court again...

Bhubaneswar: With the Naxalite movement nearing its end in the state, villagers in Odisha’s once Maoist-dominated hinterlands voluntarily dismantled memorial structures erected by the outlawed organisation Thursday, marking a significant shift in the internal security landscape of the state. “In a heartening development from Swabhiman Aanchal area and various interior pockets of Kalimela, Mathili, Khairput area of...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday said it wants an expeditious trial against Congress leader P Chidambaram in two money laundering cases, Aircel-Maxis deal and INX Media, ”as it has submitted the required sanction for prosecution against the former Union finance minister before a designated court. The federal probe agency had filed a chargesheet in the Aircel-Maxis...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday thanked the media for bringing to the fore the issue concerning NCERT's Class 8 social science book containing "offending" contents on corruption in the judiciary, saying otherwise the damage would have been "completely irreversible". A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi Thursday imposed...