News from India

New York: In the most damning study so far, a US research team has found that e-cigarettes, often targeted at youth and pregnant women, damage brain stem cells. Even short-term exposure of e-cigarettes (ECs) produces a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain, said the researchers from University of […]

Mumbai: Tennis star Sania Mirza will join broadcasters Star Sports as an expert to analyse the day-to-day action of the ongoing Wimbledon for fans across the country. Sania, a six-time grand slam winner and former Wimbledon double’s champion, brings her wealth of knowledge having played the singles, doubles and mixed doubles formats and will join […]

London: Right-handed batsman Mayank Agarwal, who has been named as replacement for Vijay Shankar for the ongoing World Cup, will join Team India in Leeds on Wednesday, BCCI confirmed this development in a statement on Tuesday. Shankar was on Monday ruled out of the World Cup as he sustained a toe injury in the nets […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: With employment scenario in the state remaining bleak the focus has once again turned to the annual phenomenon of migration of labourers from the hunger zones of what has come to be known as the KBK belt. The argument that people from this region migrate to other states in search of […]

New Delhi: Hundreds of Congress activists staged a protest at the party headquarters here on Tuesday demanding that Rahul Gandhi should not give up the presidency of the Congress. The protesters included many who have resigned from their party posts in a show of solidarity with Gandhi. Joining the protest were Delhi party leaders Rajesh […]

Bhubaneswar: The School and Mass Education department today published the first phase cut-off list for admission into Plus-II courses in different institutions across Odisha. In Science stream, Ravenshaw Higher Secondary School in Cuttack has the highest cut-off of 90 percent followed by BJB Higher Secondary School in Bhubaneswar with 88.67 percent. Saraswati Vidya Mandir at […]

Birmingham: India opener Rohit Sharma added another feather to his illustrious career on Tuesday as he equalled former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakara’s record of most centuries in a single edition of the World Cup. Rohit, who is in exceptional form, took 90 deliveries to notch up his fourth ODI century – and his 26th […]

Hyderabad: Two forest officers were injured in yet another attack on forest department personnel in Telangana early on Tuesday, police said. The incident occurred near Gundalapadu in Bhadradri Kothagudem district when the forest officials tried to stop a group of villagers from illegally cultivating forest land. Forest Section Officer Neelamaiah and Beat Officer Bhaskar Rao […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Centre seeking its stand on a plea filed by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh challenging the amendments made to the anti-money laundering law (PMLA) since 2015. Ramesh has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court after the Delhi High Court in February dismissed his plea […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a PIL challenging a law which makes it mandatory for Indian visitors to certain northeastern states like Nagaland to have an Inner Line Permit (ILP). A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that it is not willing to look into this matter. The […]

Chennai: An additional fuel tank of Tejas, a light combat aircraft (LCA) which was on a regular sortie, fell down on a farm land near Sulur Air Base near Coimbatore on Tuesday morning, said an official. The fall of the fuel tank at about 8.40 a.m. resulted in a small crater in the land but […]

New Delhi: Samsung India on Tuesday said that after generating 2,000 new jobs in the past one year, the south Korean giant would hire more talent across verticals throughout the year as it “continuously realigns resources” as per business priorities. Reacting to a media report that said Samsung is slashing 1,000 jobs in India in […]

New Delhi: Four out of the five terrorists involved in the Pulwama terror attack were killed, while one was arrested by security forces, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said on Tuesday. He said in Lok Sabha that probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed the links of terrorist module […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s ex-police chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were arrested on Tuesday following instructions issued by the Attorney General to charge them for their failure to prevent the Easter Sunday terror bombings which killed over 250 people and injured hundreds. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara told Xinhua news agency that Fernando […]

Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a contract with a Russian company for selection support, medical examination and space training of Indian astronauts for the country’s proposed maiden manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’. The contract was signed by Glavkosmos’ first Deputy Director General Natalia Lokteva and Director of Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) of […]