Bhubaneswar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Saurav Das is in Bhubaneswar Monday to meet protesters and those on hunger strike demonstrating against alleged irregularities in school textbooks. Das visited a government primary school in BJB Nagar in Bhubaneswar as part of CJP’s “School Theek Karo” campaign, which focuses on inspecting infrastructure and facilities in government schools. Das...

New Delhi: India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement will come into force October 20, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Monday. The two countries had April 27 signed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to boost two-way commerce in goods and services and promote investments. The agreement will come into force on Dussehra, which is on Oct 20,...

Bhubaneswar: The last rites of seven members of a Bhubaneswar family, who died after being swept away by a rain-swollen drain in Madhya Pradesh, were performed at Swargadwar in Puri early Monday, family members said. The mortal remains of the seven persons from MP's Gadhakana reached Bhubaneswar around 1.30 am. Four senior officials from Agar-Malwa district in...

Balangir: A forester was found hanging at staff quarters in Odisha’s Balangir district, prompting a police investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. According to reports, the deceased was identified as Byasadev Sahu, who was posted as a forester at the Thikadarpada Range. His body was found hanging from a railing at the staff quarters behind the...

Kolkata: Unidentified miscreants allegedly vandalised an office of the Mamata All India Trinamool Congress (MAITC) in the Jadavpur area of south Kolkata Sunday night, the Kolkata Police said Monday. The office door was allegedly broken, and furniture and other items were damaged Sunday night. The incident took place a day after the party office and residence of...

Patna: Six children drowned in a tragic incident in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Monday morning while bathing in a waterlogged agricultural field ahead of the Karma-Dharma festival, officials said. The incident occurred around 10 am Monday in the Narayanpur Bahiyar area under the Ajgaivinath Dham block of Sultanganj police station limits. According to police, the children had gone...

Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay Monday said its director has not resigned and apologised for an earlier communication concerning circumstances surrounding a student's death. It was apparently referring to the disclosure of the student's alleged use of AI in an exam before the investigation into his death started. Sahil Ravindra Wakode (22), a second-year...

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the US from September 23 to 25 at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Monday. Xi is scheduled to arrive in Washington September 23 and hold summit talks with President Trump. According to a report in Hong Kong-based South...

New Delhi: The Election Commission's SIR exercise is a Method Of Disenfranchising Indians, the Congress said  Monday amid outrage over 33.13 lakh notices being issued in the national capital over discrepancies in details furnished by people in their enumeration forms. Most notices were issued for voter details not matching with the information in the last Special Intensive...

Kakamigahara: The troika of destructive young forward Deepika Sehrawat, Rutuja Dadaso Pisal and Navneet Kaur fired a hat-trick each as the Indian women's hockey team hammered Indonesia 17-1 to register its second consecutive Pool B win at the Asian Games in Kakamigahara Monday. The 22-year-old Deepika (8th, 28th, 40th minutes), who scored eight goals in India's 19-0...