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Dubai: India men's team captain Shubman Gill, openers Abhishek Sharma and Shafali Verma and spinner Shree Charani are among the nominees for the men's and women's ICC Player of the Month award for September. Besides the Indian quartet, Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza and Sri Lanka...

New Delhi: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly was Tuesday appointed as Delhi Capitals' head coach ahead of the 2027 Indian Premier League (IPL) season. Ganguly's association with Delhi Capitals began in 2019 when he joined the franchise as an Advisor. Over the years, the 54-year-old...

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: An Odisha government engineer was arrested Tuesday after the state Vigilance Department unearthed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, an official statement said. Several properties, including two multi-storey buildings, a five-acre farmhouse, 23 high-value plots and Rs 10.57 lakh in cash, were...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: BJD MPs Tuesday joined the INDIA bloc MPs' protest march towards the Election Commission that was stopped at Parliament street here with the Congress Tuesday asserting that the solidarity of the Opposition to defeat the nefarious designs of the PM-HM duo will most...

Khordha: Police seized around two tonnes of suspected beef from a container near a forest along the Totapada-Jariput road under Khordha Sadar police limits Tuesday and detained one person for questioning. Police acted on information that suspected beef was allegedly being transported in a pickup...

New Delhi: India's only World Cup-winning women's cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur Tuesday stepped down from her position in all three formats, saying that she has done her duty as leader and is now "ready to play for the love of the game again." The 37-year-old's...

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: BJD said its MPs will participate in the Opposition parties' protest march in New Delhi Tuesday demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar over his alleged arbitrary actions in connection with the SIR of electoral rolls and “deletion of names of more than...

By Biplab Ranjan Dash, OP Raurkela: Despite government efforts to improve quality of education and infrastructure in schools, students of the 1970-established Kalyani Devi Government High School at Malgodown in Raurkela continue to face problems owing to a shortage of essential amenities. The condition of...

Kendujhar: Orissa High Court has issued notices to the Odisha government and district authorities in a writ petition concerning the alleged takeover of ancestral land for construction of the Bhadrasahi-Badabil-Nalda Road in Kendujhar district without due acquisition proceedings or payment of compensation. The petition was...

By Arindam Ganguly, OP Bhubaneswar: The Higher Education Department, in a notification issued Monday, announced the schedule for elections to students’ unions and other student societies in state public universities, government degree colleges, and non-government aided degree colleges for the 2026–27 academic session. OP Pic...