ARINDAM GANGULY, OP  Bhubaneswar: The Dharitri Youth Conclave-2025, organised by the leading Odia daily Dharitri to mark its 52nd anniversary, brought together over a thousand student activists, climate leaders, and environmental enthusiasts at Hotel Swosti Premium here Monday. This year’s conclave focused on fostering collaboration between environmental leaders and the youth, providing a space for discussions on...

Bhubaneswar: Police Monday found the body of a man from the Chandaka forest area near here, officials said. Local residents, who first spotted the body near Godibari village, informed the authorities. A police team reached the spot soon and seized the body. They also found a scooter nearby. "We have registered an unnatural death case and started...

Bhubaneswar: Thousands of anganwadi workers staged a protest here Monday, demanding government employee status and a pay hike. The workers, under the banner of All Odisha Anganwadi Ladies Workers Association, staged a demonstration near the state Assembly building ahead of the winter session to press for an 11-point charter of demands, including higher salaries, monthly pensions, and...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar-based Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), along with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), have joined hands for the technology transfer and future commercialisation of a novel TB vaccine, officials said. The three organisations signed a quadripartite license agreement (QLA) with TechInvention Lifecare Ltd, Monday, for the technology transfer...

Beijing/New Delhi: India had made a strong demarche with the Chinese side, both in Beijing and in Delhi, after an Indian-origin UK resident from Arunachal Pradesh was allegedly detained and harassed by the Chinese immigration authorities at the Shanghai Pudong Airport recently on "ludicrous grounds", sources confirmed Monday. Prema Wangjom Thongdok, who was travelling from London to...

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress, Monday, constituted a 10-member team of party MPs for spearheading a movement in Delhi against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal. The team was constituted at the virtual organisational meeting of Trinamool Congress earlier in the afternoon, which was chaired by the party's General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee....

London: Four police officers in the UK have been accused of misconduct Monday over their handling of abuse allegations reported by Harshita Brella, the Delhi woman later found dead in a car boot with her husband, Pankaj Lamba on the run as the main suspect. The UK's Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) concluded that the Northamptonshire...

New Delhi: In a significant step towards recovering assets linked to the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has handed over four residential flats in Mumbai, attached in the case involving fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, to the liquidator for monetisation, the ED said Monday. The properties, located in Project Tatva, Urja – A...

Karachi: Three children, aged between 8 and 12, were killed when a rocket propellant they were playing with exploded in Kashmore district in Pakistan's Sindh province, police said Monday. The incident took place near Kandhkot town in the district. The children were playing with the propellant they apparently found in the fields near their village. Deputy Superintendent...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday adjourned to December 8 the hearing on a plea filed by the wife of jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, terming his detention under the National Security Act as illegal, and an arbitrary exercise violating his fundamental rights. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria deferred the matter after...