Dhenkanal: An adult male elephant was found dead in a forest in Odisha's Dhenkanal district Sunday, with preliminary investigations suggesting the animal may have been killed by a lightning strike, officials said. The carcass of the tusker, estimated to be 25-30 years old, was found near Bompa village in the Hindol range, they said. A veterinary team...

New Delhi: India's fertilizer supply chain has remained largely unaffected by the recent conflict in West Asia, with 15 of 20 vessels carrying fertilizers and raw materials for the country having safely crossed the Strait of Hormuz, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers said Sunday. Of these, eight vessels are transporting 3.32 lakh tonne of urea, four...

Doha: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on Sunday and reviewed several areas of bilateral cooperation, including energy, trade, investments, connectivity and security. Jaishankar is on a visit covering Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman from July 5 to 10. The Gulf visit comes against the backdrop of fast-evolving political dynamics...

Bhubaneswar: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will inaugurate two new train services from Odisha Monday -- the Brahmapur-Surat (Udhna) Amrit Bharat Express and the Puri-Koraput Express, officials said. The inaugural ceremonies, to be held at Puri and Brahmapur, will also be attended by Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, they said. According to the East Coast Railway, the...

Jharsuguda: A family in Odisha's Jharsuguda district was forced to transport the body of a deceased woman on a motorcycle due to "unavailability" of hearse services at the Mundrajora Community Health Centre (CHC) in Laikera block. According to reports, after the death of Jamuna Chhatria, the wife of Naresh Chhatria, the family requested a hearse service to take...

ChampawatPithoragarh: Flagging off the first batch of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra via the Lipulekh Pass from Tanakpur in Champawat Sunday, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said the pilgrimage is a symbol of spiritual consciousness and national harmony. Amidst chants of Har-Har Mahadev, welcoming them by presenting Rudraksh rosaries and patkas (ceremonial scarves) dedicated to Lord Shiva,...

New Delhi: Meta Sunday said it maintains a zero tolerance policy towards the solicitation or sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including through advertisements, asserting that it uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to proactively detect and remove violating content while continuously strengthening its safeguards against offenders. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson said the company...

Mumbai: Nana Patekar gave a memorable performance as  Uday Shetty in Welcome. But did you know how filmmaker Anees Bazmee convinced the veteran actor to come on board the project? While appearing on "The Kapil Sharma Show", Bazmee revealed how he managed to convince a serious actor like Nana Patekar to play the hilarious don Uday Shetty...

Bhubaneswar: A 22-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly circulating an AI-generated morphed video containing “obscene and defamatory” content targeting Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on social media, police said. Biswajit Sahu, a resident of Jagatpur in Cuttack district, was arrested in connection with a case registered at the Cyber Crime and Economic Offences police station...

Gangtok: More than 37,000 people have been left out of the draft electoral rolls published in Sikkim Sunday following the completion of the enumeration phase under the Special Intensive Revision of the voters' list in the state. The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that of the 4,71,018 registered electors in the state as May...