Sano (Japan): Seasoned spinner Axar Patel choked the inexperienced Japanese batters just in time as India survived a scare to win the rain-curtailed one-off T20 International between the two mis-matched sides by a mere two runs here on Tuesday. With the match being reduced to...
Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four pilgrims, including seven women and some children, were injured, ten of them critically, when a bus carrying devotees from Hooghly in West Bengal rammed into another pilgrim bus on NH-16 near Dhamra Railway Overbridge in Bhadrak district early Sunday, police said. The accident...
Bhubaneswar: Heavy rain due to a depression lashed coastal and southern Odisha Tuesday, forcing the government to close schools, cancel employees' leaves and deploy teams in vulnerable areas to prepare for a possible calamity. With the weather department forecasting that the inclement weather would continue,...
Chhatrapur: Ganjam district administration has reportedly declared holidays for all anganwadi centres and schools in the district until September 24, in view of the extremely heavy rainfall expected under the influence of an impending deep depression over the Bay of Bengal. Heavy rainfall has already...
Nisshin (Japan): Defending champions India won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the women's T20 gold medal match at the Asian Games in Japan’s Nisshin Tuesday. The fixture is not only a rematch of last edition's final but also the Asia...
By Banchhanidhi Dey, OP Baleshwar: Students at a government high school in Baleshwar district are attending classes in a dilapidated brick-and-asbestos structure, as the school grapples with a shortage of classrooms and other infrastructure gaps, parents and local residents said. The Government Nodal High School,...
Mahakalapada: More than 30 tribal fishing families from villages in Mahakalapada block of Kendrapada district are living in makeshift polythene shelters on small islands within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. With the possibility of a cyclone forming over Bay of Bengal, concerns have been raised over...
Bhabanipatana: A Class IX student of Vikas Residential School in Bhabanipatana has built a two-seat solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) using scrap materials salvaged from a garage. Combining lessons in energy, engineering and hands-on learning, Swaraj Satapathy completed the vehicle in about three months and named...
ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: The seventh session of the 17th Odisha Legislative Assembly (Monsoon Session) begins Tuesday, with the Opposition gearing up to corner the government over the MMDR Amendment Act, flood management, school textbook errors, law and order, agrarian distress, and the trafficking of...
RABINARAYAN JENA, OP Bhubaneswar: Around 78 private hospitals and nursing homes in the state capital are facing the threat of losing their empanelment under the Ayushman Bharat scheme over alleged land-use and building plan violations. The State Health Assurance Society (SHAS) issued showcause notices to...
By Aakar Patel Corruption and bribery are two words that are interchangeable. Or are they? Bribery, in the way that...
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By Dilip Cherian The next big change in India’s babudom may not come through another cadre reform or a new...
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The alleged suicide by a second-year B. Tech student of the prestigious IIT Bombay, one of India’s most premier institutes,...
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Political satire, which in the present social media age also assumes the form of memes, is a healthy process of...
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