Bhubaneswar: The police Thursday arrested five persons, including two women, in connection with the recent murder of a middle-aged man in Bhubaneswar. The man was allegedly hacked to death by miscreants Wednesday in the state capital. The deceased, identified as Sahadev Nayak, was a trade union leader and engaged as a supervisor of sanitation workers. Speaking to...

Chennai: Two late goals helped Odisha FC play out a 2-2 draw with Chennaiyin FC in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2024-25 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai Thursday. The Marina Machans had secured a two-goal lead with Wilmar Jordan Gil striking twice within a short interval in the second half. But the Juggernauts came back...

New Delhi: The length of India’s National Highway network has surged by 60 per cent in the last 10 years from 91,287 km in 2014 to 146,195 km in 2024, making it the second largest road network in the world, according to the year-end review of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways released Thursday. In a...

Mumbai: Superstar Deepika Padukone, who was last seen in ‘Singham Again’, is expressing her concern over Larsen & Toubro's chairman SN Subrahmanyan’s recent statement. SN Subrahmanyan recently made a shocking statement as he urged his employees to work for 90 hours a week, and even report to work on Sundays. Deepika, who is also a mental health...

New Delhi: In a big setback to the petitioners demanding marriage equality rights in India, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court Thursday rejected the batch of pleas seeking review of its October 2023 verdict, which had refused to grant any legal recognition to same-sex and queer couples in the country. Apart from dismissing the application for...

New Delhi: The CBI has registered a fresh case of corruption against former finance minister P Chidambaram's son and Congress MP, Karti Chidambaram, for allegedly giving relief to alcoholic beverage company Diageo Scotland over a ban on the duty-free sale of its whisky, officials said Thursday. The case pertains to an alleged suspicious payment made to Advantage...

Rourkela: A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable shot himself dead while on duty inside the Rourkela Steel Plant here in the early hours of Thursday, police said. The deceased constable has been identified as Abhinandan PK (23), a native of Kerala. Around 2.30 am, when his colleagues heard a loud noise, they rushed to the spot...

Vibrant cultural evening light up Bhubaneswar on second day of 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas   Grace in motion: Odissi dancers mesmerise on stage at International Odissi Dance Festival, Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar   Indian diaspora members welcomed at Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar

New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday asked its Delhi chief electoral officer to probe the Aam Aadmi Party's complaints against BJP leader Parvesh Verma and allegations of additions and deletions in the electoral roll of the New Delhi Assembly seat. Hours after Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Atishi led a delegation to the poll authority, the...

Bhubaneswar: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Thursday said that the hydrogen fuel-run train engine developed by Indian Railways has the maximum horsepower in the world. Vaishnaw, who is also the Union Minister in charge of Information and Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology, said this while speaking at a plenary session titled “Green Connections: Diaspora's Contribution to Sustainable...