Two Odisha athletes killed in road accident near Nakhara
Bhubaneswar: Two promising young athletes, Mrutyam Jayaram Dondapati and Malaya Barik, died in a late-night road accident near Nakhara on the Kataka-Bhubaneswar National Highway, leaving Odisha’s athletics fraternity in shock. According to reports, the accident occurred around 10:30 pm. Both...
1st T20I: Nitish, Mayank return as India opt to bowl against NZ
Christchurch: India have brought back express pacer Mayank Yadav and seam-bowling all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy as skipper Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl first against New Zealand in the T20I series opener at the Hagley Oval Thursday....
Deprived Schools: Crumbling infrastructure hits enrolment
PARIKHITA SAHOO, OP Boinda: Dilapidated classrooms, unusable toilets and a lack of basic facilities are driving students away from the Government Upper Primary (UP) School at Gunduri near Anandapur under Athamallik block in Anugola district, raising concerns over the future...
Manikeswari Chhatar Yatra draws massive crowd
Bhabanipatana: The famous Chhatar Yatra of Goddess Manikeswari, the presiding deity of Kalahandi district, concluded amid religious fervour in Bhabanipatana Monday, drawing hundreds of thousands of devotees from Odisha and neighbouring states. However, the ceremonial Chhatar, or movable idol of...
10 killed in two yrs: Chandikhol overbridge turns into death trap
Badachana: The overbridge at Chandikhol junction on National Highway 53 connecting Daitari and Paradip has turned into a death trap with potholes and poor road conditions posing serious risks to commuters. Chandikhol is a major commercial hub and thousands of...
EC sets November 12 date for Rajya Sabha bypoll after Murugan’s resignation
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India Thursday announced a by-election to fill a vacancy in the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh. The vacancy arose due to the resignation of L. Murugan, whose term was originally scheduled to continue until April 2, 2030. According to a press note, the vacancy...
Read moreDetailsKharge to chair INDIA bloc meeting on ‘vote chori’ protests, November 1 rally
New Delhi: An online meeting of the INDIA bloc will be held Thursday evening to discuss the roadmap for protests regarding the vote chori issue and to press for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, sources said. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will chair the meeting, which will also review the preparations for the INDIA bloc's rally in Delhi November 1, they said. Last week, the protests over the vote theft charge...
Read moreDetailsDelhi Police summons three CJP leaders for questioning over Jantar Mantar protest
New Delhi: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde have been summoned by Delhi Police to appear for questioning Thursday in connection with the Jantar Mantar protest case. The CJP members have been asked to appear before the Delhi Police Crime Branch office in Rajouri Garden at noon. This comes a day after Das and Ranka were released from Tihar Jail following a week in judicial...
Read moreDetailsUS citizenship application backlog tops 813,000, processing takes 12.7 months
Washington: Indian green-card holders, who form the second-largest group of new American citizens, are facing a steady slowdown in US citizenship approvals, with the backlog of pending applications crossing 813,000 in August, according to official data reviewed by the media. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approved 15,349 naturalisation applications (Form N-400) in August, according to the agency’s monthly report. That was down from 16,514 in July and 18,439 in June,...
Read moreDetailsIndia rebukes UN rapporteur over ‘glaring inaccuracies’ in report on Dawood Ibrahim as ‘India-based’
United Nations: India has taken strong exception to a report by a UN monitor falsely projecting that wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is based in India and warned that such actions cause the organisation "tremendous harm". Raghoo Puri, a first secretary in India's UN Mission, Wednesday (local time), accused Ben Saul, the Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, of "incompetence" in putting "particularly glaring inaccuracies" in his July report. Special rapporteurs...
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Two Odisha athletes killed in road accident near Nakhara
Bhubaneswar: Two promising young athletes, Mrutyam Jayaram Dondapati and Malaya Barik, died in a late-night road accident near Nakhara on the Kataka-Bhubaneswar National Highway, leaving Odisha’s athletics fraternity in shock. According to reports, the accident occurred around 10:30 pm. Both athletes were rushed to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Kataka, where doctors declared them dead on...
Rijiju vows action against content creator over racial abuse of Tripura youth
New Delhi: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has condemned the alleged racial abuse of a youth from Tripura by a Delhi-based content creator and said the Delhi and Tripura police would teach the accused a hard lesson. In a post on X, Rijiju said there had been a delay in lodging an official complaint but asserted...
1st T20I: Nitish, Mayank return as India opt to bowl against NZ
Christchurch: India have brought back express pacer Mayank Yadav and seam-bowling all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy as skipper Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl first against New Zealand in the T20I series opener at the Hagley Oval Thursday. This is the first T20I meeting between the two teams since this year’s T20 World Cup final...
Kharge to chair INDIA bloc meeting on ‘vote chori’ protests, November 1 rally
New Delhi: An online meeting of the INDIA bloc will be held Thursday evening to discuss the roadmap for protests regarding the vote chori issue and to press for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, sources said. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will chair the meeting, which will also review the preparations for the INDIA bloc's rally in...
Mom-to-be Kiara Advani conceals baby bump in baggy shirt
Mumbai: Mommy-to-be Kiara Advani seems to be living her best phase. The actor was seen embracing a fresh look. The actress, who is expecting her second child with husband Sidharth Malhotra, recently flaunted her new hairstyle in a mirror selfie, sporting a baggy and loose brown shirt paired with grey trousers. Kiara took to her social media...
Donald Trump recounts Pichai’s response to Atlantic Ocean renaming proposal
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he spoke to Indian-American Google CEO Sundar Pichai about renaming the Atlantic Ocean on Google Maps, but was told that oceans were different because they “cover a lot of countries”, as he riffed at a midterm rally in South Carolina about renaming the Gulf of Mexico and the Strait of...
One killed, eight injured in attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd airport
Riyadh: One Saudi resident was killed in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf near Bahrain and Qatar, the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority announced early Thursday. The aviation authority also said eight people were injured in the late Wednesday attack and the airport suffered some material damage....
EC sets November 12 date for Rajya Sabha bypoll after Murugan’s resignation
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India Thursday announced a by-election to fill a vacancy in the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh. The vacancy arose due to the resignation of L. Murugan, whose term was originally scheduled to continue until April 2, 2030. According to a press note, the vacancy became effective October 14, following Murugan’s resignation....
BJP worker’s murder sparks tension in Bengal’s Malda, one detained
Kolkata: Police said Thursday that a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was first brutally hacked and then shot dead by a group of miscreants in a minority-dominated Malda district in West Bengal. The incident occurred on Wednesday night. The deceased has been identified as Samir Ghosh. “As per information available so far, a group of assassins first...
Jaishankar meets Polish PM Donald Tusk ahead of Modi’s bilateral talks
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar Thursday called on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and discussed cooperation between the two countries across various sectors. Taking to X, EAM Jaishankar said, "Pleased to call on Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland." "Appreciated his sharing thoughts on deepening India - Poland cooperation across a wide range of...
