ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: IIT Kharagpur and DAV Public School, Unit-8, Bhubaneswar emerged champions in the senior and junior categories, respectively, at the grand finale of the Orissa POST Mettle Meet 2026, held at Hotel Swosti Premium Sunday. While IIT Kharagpur clinched the senior title in their second attempt, DAV Unit-8 retained its junior crown to register...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of two judges of the Orissa High Court, official sources said Sunday. The collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, took the decision in a meeting held August 6, they said. While Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak has been recommended for transfer to Gujarat High Court,...

=Bhubaneswar: In a significant achievement, three premier state-run medical colleges and hospitals of Odisha have featured among the top 100 such institutions in the Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF) 2026, official sources said Sunday. While Kataka’s SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCB MCH) secured the 15th position, VIMSAR in Burla and MKCG Medical College and Hospital in...

Balangir: A 45-year-old unmarried woman was allegedly bludgeoned to death after unidentified assailants entered her house at Khamarmunda village under Puintala block in this district, police said. The deceased was identified as Geetanjali Sadangi, who lived alone in the village. She was allegedly attacked with a heavy object and suffered fatal head injuries. Puintala police reached the...

Bhubaneswar: The much-awaited Mettle Meet 2026 concluded at Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar, bringing two days of intense quizzing, sharp minds and spirited competition to a memorable close. The event brought together around 80 teams from Odisha and different parts of the country, creating a vibrant platform for young quizzers to test their knowledge, teamwork, speed and presence of...

Thiruvananthapuram/Kasaragod: Kerala Health Minister K Muraleedharan and Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan Sunday said that the full version of Vande Mataram will not be sung in Kerala. Muraleedharan told reporters that in Kerala, as always, only the first two couplets of the national song will be sung. In all state government programmes only the first two couplets were...

Moscow: Russia needs to create a railway route to the Indian Ocean to reduce dependence on strategically sensitive maritime chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and the Bosphorus Strait, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin has said. His comments came amid the conflict in West Asia, which has severely disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz --...

Bhubaneswar: Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly Naveen Patnaik Sunday called on citizens to respect the wisdom of indigenous people, fight for the protection of their cultural identity, and demanded scheduled tribe status for 169 communities in the state. Patnaik was addressing a function held at Sankha Bhawan, the state headquarters of BJD, on the occasion of...

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor R.N. Ravi has called upon all state and private universities in the state to observe August 14 as 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day'. A statement issued by the Lok Bhavan Sunday said, "Governor R.N. Ravi has called upon all state and Private Universities in West Bengal, along with their affiliated colleges and institutions, to...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi group claimed Sunday it launched a large-scale attack on Saudi-backed forces in the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha in western Yemen's Taiz Province. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement on social media platform X that the operation targeted troop gatherings and weapons depots in the Mocha area with "a...