Keonjhar/Cuttack: Five people were killed in two road accidents in Odisha during Holi celebrations Saturday, police said. In the first incident, three members of a family were mowed down by a speeding truck in Keonjhar district. The accident occurred near Dolita Chhak, close to Champua Police Station, in the morning hours when the truck hit them, a...

New Delhi: Describing the 21st century as the ‘Century of Asia’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid his emphasis on the pivotal role the continent will play in shaping global progress. PM Modi said the 21st century is the century of Asia and good relations between India and China are not just beneficial but also important for...

Bhubaneswar/Angul: The body of a five-year-old girl was found in a pool of blood at a stone's throw from her house in Angul district, with police suspecting that she was raped and murdered. The girl had gone missing Thursday afternoon and her family had filed a police complaint Friday. The girl's body was found in her village...

New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament will resume Monday after a brief holiday on account of Holi. Key reports and Bills will be presented in both Houses -- Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. According to the list of business in the Lok Sabha, BJP MP Radha Mohan Singh and Samjawadi Party MP Virendra Singh will present...

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Sanaa: The Houthi-run Health Ministry has said that the overnight US strikes killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and wounded more than 100 people in Yemeni state capital Sanaa, media reported. The US has escalated its strikes against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, with President Donald Trump vowing Saturday to use 'overwhelming lethal force'...

Rourkela: In a major breakthrough, researchers at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NITR) have found ways to remove pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater. The path-breaking process has been developed by a team, led by Prof Angana Sarkar, Associate Professor at the department of Biotechnology & Medical Engineering of the top technical institute. The two-stage process combines adsorption...

New Delhi: State owned SAIL has plans to more than double the capacity of its Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) to around 9 million tonne per annum at an investment of Rs 30,000 crore, a move which will boost supplies to sectors like defence, oil & gas, automobiles among others. Post expansion, which will come up over an...

Cape Canaveral: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth later Tuesday evening after spending nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard...

Berhampur: Following the imposition of a total ban on waste dumping in the areas surrounding the Chandania Hill following complaints from various quarters, and with the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) stepping up efforts to resume bio-mining the accumulated garbage, hopes for making the scenic spot on the outskirts of the City waste free has ignited once again....