Kolkata: Delhi Capitals beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 40 runs in their final Indian Premier League game this season Sunday. Sent in, Delhi Capitals scored 203 for five after senior batter KL Rahul top-scored for DC with a 30-ball 60, while skipper Axar Patel chipped in with a 39 off 25 balls. Saurabh Dubey (2/28 in 4...

Bhubaneswar: Normal life was affected in several parts of Odisha as severe heatwave conditions prevailed in the state, with nine places registering a day temperature of 44 degrees Celsius or above Sunday. Roads in many places, especially in western Odisha, wore a deserted look during the day as people chose to stay indoors due to the intense...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday visited a defence manufacturing unit and a garments facility in Khurda and interacted with the workers and assured the promoters of full administrative support. He visited the Trimetro garments manufacturing unit of EPIC Group and the Mundamba Industrial Park facility of Anadrone Systems Pvt Ltd, a defence manufacturing unit....

Artists perform during the Gandharva Kala Mahotsav organised by Gandharva Kala Parishad at GKCM in Bhubaneswar, Sunday   Players in action during the All India Women’s Hockey Championship at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Sunday   Artists of Sigal Theatre, Guwahati, perform Dinke Andhere during 8th National Theatre Festival at Rabindra Mandap in Bhubaneswar, Sunday   📲 Follow...

Karachi: At least 24 people are feared dead and many injured after a powerful explosion ripped through a shuttle train in Pakistan's Balochistan province Sunday, officials said. The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the blast in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province. The shuttle train was heading from Quetta Cantonment to the...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Sunday once again extended the deadline for students seeking scanned copies of their evaluated answer books for Class 12 board examinations, with the last date now revised to May 25 midnight. The CBSE had earlier extended the deadline from May 22 to May 23, then till May 24,...

Bhubaneswar: Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was responsible for the prevailing oil crisis in India. When people of India are standing in queues for hours before fuel stations, the union government has exported petrol and diesel worth Rs 52,000 crore to other countries, Singh alleged while addressing a press conference...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Sunday said that negotiations between the US and Iran are proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, but he has told the negotiators not to rush into a deal and that time is on our side. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the US blockade of ships in the...

Berhampur: Two Class XII students of a private school drowned in a pond while bathing in Odisha's Ganjam district Sunday, police said. The deceased were identified as Biswajit Panda (16) and Abhijit Marndi (17), of Berhampur town. According to the police, five friends, including the deceased students, went to bathe in Bori Bandh, near Ankuli, under the...

Puri: The Shree Jagannath Temple authorities in Puri have decided to postpone the ongoing inventory of valuables in the 'Ratna Bhandar' of the 12th-century shrine till June in view of the prevailing hot and humid weather in this seaside holy town and 'Chandan Jatra' (summer festival) rituals. Though the temple administration had earlier decided to hold inventory...