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Rourkela: President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday will be on a day-long maiden visit to steel city Rourkela in Odisha's Sundargarh district, where she will inaugurate a planetarium and a tribal museum, an official statement said. She will also inaugurate Nirmal Munda Parivesh Path, named after a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Electoral Officer R S Gopalan Monday said he has asked EROs to undertake a proper verification before names of about 9.8 lakh voters are deleted from the electoral rolls. The CEO has specifically asked them to put on hold the scrutiny of...

Dubai: The US Navy's forcible seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship threw doubt on an announcement from President Donald Trump that US negotiators will head to Pakistan Monday for another round of talks with Iran. Trump's announcement Sunday had raised hopes of extending a fragile...

Washington: Iran's military vowed a swift response to the US seizure of an Iranian-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported Sunday. The military headquarters said the attack and subsequent boarding of the ship by US forces was a violation of the ceasefire...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said that American negotiators will be in Pakistan Monday for talks with Iran. Trump, in a post on social media Sunday, didn't detail which officials the US would send to a second round of in-person talks with Iran in Islamabad....

Tehran: Iran has indicated that there has been "progress" in its ongoing discussions with the United States, though it stressed that a final agreement is still a long way off, with the current two-week ceasefire due to expire on April 22, according to local media...

Cairo: The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports. The strait is closed...

New Delhi: A convoy of 14 India-bound ships carrying crude oil and gas were stopped by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by firing at two of them while they were transiting the Strait of Hormuz, leading to 13 of the vessels returning to different...

Cairo: Iran swiftly reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, reimposing restrictions on the critical waterway Saturday after the US said the move would not end its blockade. The country's joint military command said Saturday that control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned...

Beirut: Iran said it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but questions lingered Saturday about how much freedom ships actually had to transit the waterway as Tehran maintained its grip on who got through and threatened to close it again if the...