Washington: Three NASA astronauts, including Anil Menon, Tuesday cast their ballots in the US midterm elections from the International Space Station orbiting over 400 kms above Earth. Menon and two other astronauts – Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins filled out an electronic ballot and sent it securely to election officials. "Yes, you can even vote from space,"...

Puri: Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal Tuesday announced the development of an international cruise terminal in Puri at an estimated cost of Rs 1,500 crore. The Paradip Port Authority (PPA), in partnership with the Odisha government, will develop the proposed terminal, he said while chairing a meeting of his ministry's consultative committee on strengthening coastal and cruise shipping....

Puri: The expansion of National Highway-316 connecting Puri with the state capital Bhubaneswar has begun, with the aim of making travel between the two cities faster, smoother and more convenient. As part of the initial phase, soil testing and technical surveys are currently underway to upgrade the existing highway into a six-lane road. The testing is being...

New Delhi: An Indian sailor was killed in an attack on a commercial vessel near Limah in Oman last evening, triggering a strong condemnation of the strike by India, which renewed its call for immediate de-escalation of tensions in West Asia. The death of the Indian took the number of Indian nationals killed since the conflict began...

Kyiv: The death toll from a Russian attack in southern Ukraine on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid rose to 31 Tuesday, with dozens of people still missing, as a wave of overnight strikes targeted power plants across the country, damaged hospitals and wounded scores of people. Teams of rescuers and volunteers continued...

Pottangi: Tension continued to escalate along the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border in Kotia panchayat of Pottangi block in Koraput district over the Andhra Pradesh panchayat elections, with police personnel from the two states having a face-off Tuesday. Villagers in Neridibalsa op posed the deployment of Odisha Police, raising slogans of “Odisha go back”. They also removed a police...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked a traders’ body to make INDIA bloc parties respondents in its plea seeking to halt protests at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan during the festive season affecting their businesses, saying such sites cannot be occupied for “all times to come”. The SC also asked the Congress and its leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and...

London: Collins Dictionary has named “mogging” - a slang word meaning to outshine someone or something - as its word of the year 2026. Dictionary experts said Tuesday that the word, most often used by young people “in a playful and ironic way when someone is upstaged”, has entered mainstream language and saw a 210% increase in...

Barcelona: Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel has died after he suffered cardiac arrest from an on-field collision in a Spanish second-division match, his club said Tuesday. He was 30. De Miguel was challenging for the ball near midfield Monday when he was struck in the chest by the onrushing Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono during added time. Owono...

Rayagada: A local court Tuesday sentenced nine individuals, including notorious criminal Hadaapa Shiva, to life imprisonment for abduction, unnatural sexual assault, and attempted murder. Additional District and Sessions Judge Alpana Swain convicted the accused—Hadaapa Shiva, G Bangaru, Shunthi Suraj, Shunthi Prakash, Majhi Raja, Majhi Joseph, G Venu, G Teja, and G Surendra—following testimonies from 36 witnesses. The...