Islamabad: Pakistan's National Assembly Thursday passed two bills related to the military and nuclear command structure to streamline changes in the military hierarchy in the wake of last year's 27th constitutional amendment. The amendment introduced the office of Chief of Defence Forces by abolishing the office of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. The position of...

Rourkela: The Odisha vigilance Thursday caught a tahasildar of Sundaragada district with Rs 5 lakh of suspected ill-gotten cash, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, vigilance sleuths intercepted the Lathikata tahasildar-cum-sub-registrar's vehicle near Rajabasa Chhak in Sundaragada district when he was moving towards Rourkela city and seized the cash from his possession, an officer said. The tahasildar...

Koraput: Police in Odisha's Koraput district have booked a history-sheeter under the National Security Act (NSA), an officer said Thursday. Invoking provisions under Section 3(2) of the National Security Act, the police booked Sanjay Suna, who has 25 criminal cases registered against him over the past 15 years across several police stations in the district, the officer...

Latur: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convenor Abhijeet Dipke Thursday said Maharashtra School Education Minister Dada Bhuse should resign, claiming government schools are in a pitiable condition and that even “ministers’ dogs get better facilities” than students. Dipke, whose group launched the ‘School Thik Karo’ (improve government schools) campaign last week, visited a Zilla Parishad school at Ujani...

Balangir/Deogaon: A 40-year-old man was beheaded in a suspected human sacrifice in Balangir district, police said Thursday. Santosh Kharsel, of Teparamunda village under Tusura police limits, was identified as the victim. Deogaon police registered case (161/2026) and arrested the primary suspect, Shatrughna Sahu, 40, of Bagada village under Deogaon police limits. The incident came to light Thursday...

New Delhi: Observing that children should not be subjected to any kind of pressure, the Supreme Court Thursday stressed the need to find a solution to issues arising from the CBSE policy mandating Class IX students to study three languages. “We don’t want the children to come under any pressure,” CJI Surya Kant said. The SC was...

New Delhi: The Centre Thursday imposed a stockholding limit on bulk consumers of sugar, restricting them to stocks equivalent to 15 days’ consumption. Announcing the move, Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Pralhad Joshi said bulk consumers using more than 10 tonnes of sugar a month would not be allowed to hold stocks beyond 15 days’ consumption....

Washington/Dubai: US President Donald Trump has warned of economic consequences against any country that provides “any type of lifeline to Iran” as the United States looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel nearly six months ago. Thousands have been killed in the war, which quickly drew in Gulf nations and shocked global markets as Iran...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday said Vande Mataram was not a "political bargaining chip" but the "soul of Bharat's freedom struggle", amid an ongoing row over the national song. Taking to social media, Majhi said the Congress Working Committee's decision to limit the singing of Vande Mataram to only two stanzas was "deeply disappointing"....

Srinagar: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor's remarks that Jammu and Kashmir is an important part of India and the protest registered by Pakistan over the comment have drawn mixed reactions from political spectrum in the Union territory. The BJP welcomed Gor's remarks as a major diplomatic achievement for India, but the Congress said the US diplomat...