Briefs

Sambalpur: The mutilated body of a youth was found at Khairapalli in Dhanupalli police station limits of Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Friday morning. The dead youth was identified as Rustom...

Cuttack: Three persons including a four-year-old kid were injured after an LPG cylinder exploded in their house at Damana under Baranga police limits in Cuttack on Friday morning. Sources said...

New Delhi: The United Nations Security Council comprising 15 nations, including China this time, on Thursday condemned the “heinous and cowardly” Pulwama terror attack and also named the Masood Azhar-led...

In the wake of growing international pressure, Pakistan on Thursday banned 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa and its charity wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation. The decision was taken at a...

Koraput: Sachidananda Mohanty had resigned from the post of Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Central University of Orissa (CUO) in Koraput. A press note issued by the varsity on Thursday said that he had...

DMS alumni are holding their third alumni meet, “Back To School -3” on the school campus at Unit-9 in Bhubaneswar, on February 23. Alumni and Reserve Bank of India governor...

Rayagada: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel busted a Maoist camp inside Tuluba forest in the foothills of Niyamgiri under Kalyansinghpur block in Rayagada on Thursday. Explosives including 15...

Bhadrak: The district administration sealed nine liquor shops at Basudevpur area in Bhadrak district under pressure from women activists on Wednesday. According to sources, the women activists had been opposing...

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has hiked interest rate on employees' provident fund to 8.65% from 8.55% for the 2018-19 fiscal year.  The move will...

A day after the Union Cabinet ratified it, President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday approved the ordinance which makes triple talaq a criminal offence. The Modi government re-promulgated the triple...