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Chhatrapur: Amidst the ongoing outcry over shortage and black-marketing of fertilisers, Ganjam Collector V Keerthi Vasan assessed the availability and supply of fertilisers in the district Tuesday. At a review meeting here, the Collector ordered all the private retailers not to deviate from the government-approved...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday registered a suo motu case over the lack of functional CCTV cameras in police stations across the country. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta took cognisance of a media report stating that 11 people have died...

Tianjin: The member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) have strongly condemned the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam and said that the perpetrators, organisers and sponsors of such attacks "must be brought to justice". In the Tianjin Declaration by the Council of Heads...

Keonjhar: Villagers in Odisha's Keonjhar district Friday rescued an eight-year-old girl student whose head got stuck in a window grill of a government school where she was left locked overnight, police said. The incident took place at the Government Upper Primary School at Anjar under...

Bhubaneswar: Amid heavy rainfall triggered by a low-pressure system battering various parts of Odisha over the past few days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Friday forecast the formation of a fresh low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal off the Odisha coast. “A fresh low-pressure...

Nuapada: Two labourers died of suspected asphyxiation while working in a septic tank in Odisha's Nuapada district Sunday, police said. The incident took place at Laxmi Chhak in Khariar town of Nuapada district this afternoon. The deceased were identified as Basudev Bhoi and Raghumani Hati,...

Sambalpur: In an attempt to promote uniformity, safety, and professionalism among students, the government-run Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Burla near here has introduced a mandatory uniform dress code for its first-year undergraduate students starting from the 2025-2026 academic session while prohibiting...

Berhampur: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Sunday inaugurated Odisha's first seawater desalination plant in Ganjam district. The plant, at Matikhal near Chhatarpur, will convert seawater into freshwater using reverse osmosis (RO). It has been developed by the Odisha Sands Complex (OSCOM), a unit of Indian...

New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Thursday unanimously authorised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President J P Nadda to select the coalition's candidate for the Vice Presidential election, scheduled for September 9. The decision was taken during a meeting of the NDA parliamentary...

Los Angeles: Two people were killed and six others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Los Angeles, the US state of California, local authorities said. The incident occurred around 1am (0800 GMT) Monday, near 14th Place and Griffith Avenue, where several parties were underway,...