Briefs

Sonepur: The Vigilance sleuths arrested Tarabha Tehsildar Subrat Behera in Odisha’s Sonepur district on Monday. He was caught red-handed while accepting Rs 20,000 bribe for land registration at his official...

Bhubaneswar: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel seized 12.2 kg ganja at Bhubaneswar railway station and arrested one person on Monday evening. According to sources, the arrested, identified as Rabibur...

Bhubaneswar: Two unidentified bikers allegedly robbed an employee of a private finance firm of Rs 52,000 at gunpoint, on the outskirts of the Odisha capital. According to sources, the loot...

Patna: Nitish Kumar was on Monday sworn in as Bihar Chief Minister for a fourth straight term, but this time with two deputies – BJP’s Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi....

Kanpur: A clash between two communities left a  25-year-old youth dead and several injured. It reportedly started over water being splashed on one of them and soon snowballed into stone...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday unveiled the ‘Statue of Peace’ in Pali, Rajasthan to mark the 151st birth anniversary celebrations of Jain Acharya Shree Vijay Vallabh Surishwer...

London: The number of COVID-19 cases reported globally in the last 24 hours was 6.57 lakh. This is the highest number recorded since the outbreak of the global pandemic in...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, after meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday, announced that there will be over 1 lakh COVID-19 tests every day. "There's a...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who had contracted COVID-19 in the first week of October, has now been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon,...

Puri: A youth, identified as Vijendra Barik of Jagatpur area in Cuttack, drowned in the sea in Odisha’s Puri on Sunday. According to sources, Vijendra along with some friends had...