Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) announced the results of this year’s Matric, Madhyama and State Open School examinations Saturday afternoon. School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond was present at the board office and formally released the result book. Students can check their results on the official websites www.bseodisha.ac.in and www.bseodisha.nic.in using their roll numbers....

Kendrapara: The Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district was closed for three months as the mating and nesting season of the saltwater crocodiles began, officials said Saturday. The park was closed to tourists May 1 to ensure that the estuarine crocodiles do not get disturbed during nesting and breeding, they said. Assistant Chief Conservator Manas Das...

Kolkata: Over 55 per cent turnout was recorded till 1 pm in repoll in 15 booths of two assembly constituencies in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district Saturday, an official said. Voting was underway more or less peacefully at 11 polling stations of Magrahat Paschim assembly constituency and four in Diamond Harbour, where the EC ordered repoll...

Lahore: Twenty-one terrorists, mostly affiliated with the banned TTP outfit, were arrested in Pakistan's Punjab province during the past week, police said Saturday. The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab Police, in a statement, said it conducted more than 200 intelligence-based operations across the province and apprehended 21 terrorists. Most of the apprehended terrorists were linked to...

Kolkata: The BJP and TMC Saturday both hailed the SC directions on the Election Commission's circular over the deployment of central government personnel for vote counting in West Bengal. The apex court Saturday said no further order was necessary on the TMC's plea challenging the Calcutta High Court's dismissal of its petition against the April 13 circular....

Washington: President Donald Trump has joked that the US Navy will take Cuba on the way home from Iran. "Cuba's got problems," Trump said in one of several digressions in his Friday evening speech before the non-profit Forum Club of the Palm Beaches. "On the way back from Iran, we'll have one of our big, maybe the...

Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik Saturday sought Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's "compassionate intervention" over an incident in Odisha, where a tribal man exhumed his sister's skeleton and produced it as proof to withdraw money from a rural bank. Patnaik, in a letter, also urged the Union finance minister to ensure that clear accountability is immediately fixed...

New Delhi: Raja Shivaji featuring Riteish Deshmukh, has recorded the biggest opening day for a Marathi film by collecting Rs 12.40 crore nett at the domestic box office. The Jio Studios and Mumbai Film Company film is directed by Deshmukh and released in theatres Friday in Marathi and Hindi. It features the actor in the role of...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday extended the judicial custody of two former senior officials of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group — Amitabh Jhunjhunwala and Amit Bapna — until May 15 in connection with a money laundering probe linked to Reliance Home Finance Limited (RHFL). The Special Judge, PMLA, at the Rouse Avenue Courts allowed the...

Bhopal/Jabalpur: Rescue operations at the Bargi Dam reservoir in Jabalpur district intensified Saturday as specialised teams worked tirelessly to locate four individuals still missing following the devastating cruise boat accident Thursday evening. While nine people are confirmed dead, four more people are still missing. Of them, according to police, three are children, and one is an adult....