Bhubaneswar: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) central organising general secretary Milind Parande has demanded that the missing Justice A.S. Naidu Commission report on the 2008 murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati be traced and made public, alleging that its disappearance is hindering the pursuit of justice. Addressing a press conference Wednesday, Parande alleged that Swami Lakshmanananda was assassinated on...

Hong Kong: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday affair raises national security concerns. The company named Colette Kress as interim CEO. She is the current executive vice president and chief financial officer. Huang faced growing calls to resign after his affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Late Wednesday, media reports said Huang had another extramarital affair with...

Koraput: A medicinal plant garden featuring more than 300 varieties was inaugurated at the Central University of Odisha (CUO) campus in Sunabeda Thursday to conserve indigenous bio-resources and promote traditional tribal healing practices. Named 'Parashar Tribal Medicinal Plant Garden', it was inaugurated during the launch of a two-day project titled 'Integrated Conservation, Agro-technology & Bioresource Enterprise Development...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee, Thursday wrote a letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) apprehending theft or ribbing of crucial documents required to be submitted to the Commission for establishing rights over the original party name -- All India Trinamool Congress and the electoral symbol...

Imphal: A Kuki woman was shot dead while two men sustained injuries when suspected militants engaged in a gunfight in Manipur's Kangpokpi district Thursday, officials said. The gunfight broke out between rival militant groups in an area near Taphou Kuki village in Kangpokpi district and Kailengjang in neighbouring Senapati district around 11 am. Following the exchange of...

Brahmapur: A court in Odisha's Ganjam district Thursday sentenced two brothers to life imprisonment for murdering a 34-year-old man. Additional District Judge-III Bibhaswat Goutam convicted Kangaru Bhuyan (54) and his brother Kalia Bhuyan (24), both residents of Banthapalli village, for the murder of Bachan Swain, Additional Public Prosecutor Prabhat Kumar Jena said. The court also imposed a...

Baragada: Two suspected poachers were arrested from Odisha's Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary during raids, officials said Thursday. Acting on specific intelligence, sanctuary officials and the Baragada district police conducted search operations across five villages near the reserve November 10-11 to prevent poaching and illegal hunting of wildlife, they said. During the raids, the two poachers were arrested, said...

Kathmandu: At least 14 people were killed, and six others injured Thursday when a microbus they were travelling in plunged down a hilly road in Nepal while they were returning home for the Chhath festival, police said. The accident occurred around 5:45 am in Makwanpur district of Bagmati province, according to an information officer at the District...

Jajpur: An elderly couple from Andhra Pradesh drowned in a river in Odisha's Jajpur district Thursday while trying to rescue their daughter and nephew, who had ventured into deep water while taking a holy dip, police said. The deceased were identified as M Srinivas Sulu (65) and his wife M Devi (61), residents of the Palamaneru area...

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has forwarded to the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development a representation raising concerns over the reported financial association between UNICEF and Meta, apprehending that such engagements could undermine independent child-protection initiatives and ongoing efforts to hold the social media giant accountable in matters concerning Child Sexual Abuse...