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Bhubaneswar: A nine-member delegation from the Rajasthan Urban Drinking Water Sewerage and Infrastructure Corporation Ltd (RUIDP), Jaipur, praised Odisha’s achievements in urban service delivery during a visit to Bhubaneswar and Puri under an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-supported exposure programme to study the state’s best practices...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Thursday announced free bus travel for NEET-UG candidates appearing for the re-examination. The Commerce and Transport Department has issued a notification in this regard. Candidates will be allowed to travel free of cost on OSRTC buses by showing their admit cards. The...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Cyber police have registered a case against stand-up comedian Pranit More, web developer Himanshu Jangra, and others for allegedly disseminating "obscene and objectionable" content on social media, and summoned them for an inquiry, an official said Thursday. More and Jangra are at...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, had arrived at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police Thursday to face questioning in connection with the legislators' signature mismatch case. Earlier in the day,...

Shimla: Family members of seafarer Aditya Sharma (23), who was killed in a US strike on an oil tanker near Strait of Hormuz, Thursday urged the Himachal government and the Centre to get the body back to the native Galore village in Hamirpur so that...

New Delhi: Observing that homemakers should be recognised as “nation builders”, the Supreme Court Thursday held that loss of wife’s domestic care should be monetised at a minimum of Rs 30,000 per month. A bench of Justices Sanjoy Karol and NK Singh passed the order...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to hear tomorrow a plea filed by Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha election from Madhya Pradesh. A vacation Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Atul S. Chandurkar Thursday...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has refused to grant regular bail to the former Chief Financial Officer of Reliance Power Limited in a money laundering case linked to the issuance of an alleged fake bank guarantee of Rs 68 crore. Justice Madhu Jain dismissed...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik resigned from the Upper House as well as the party on Thursday, saying he took the decision in view of the mandate given to the BJP by the people of West Bengal. Baraik is the...

Sofia: Emphasising the long-standing ties between India and Bulgaria, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar Thursday said that the relationship should be reshaped into a more contemporary and forward-looking partnership, with both sides sharing similar political outlooks. Addressing a press conference following his meeting with...