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Bengaluru: The IPL 2022 auction had to be stopped mid-way after the auctioneer Hugh Edmeades collapsed during the mega auction here on Saturday. Edmeades collapsed on stage while the bidding was on for Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga. He…

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 Auction officially began in Bengaluru at 12 pm on Saturday. Two cricketers from Odisha are among the 590, who will go under the hammer on these two days - February 12 and 13. The 15th…

New Delhi: India witnessed 50,407 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours on Saturday. The figure is 13 per cent lower than Friday. There was also a marginal dip in daily positivity rate to 3.48 per cent. India’s active cases currently stand…

Ahmedabad: Virat Kohli’s lean patch continued, but that didn’t deter Team India from completing a 3-0 sweep of their ODI series against the West Indies on Friday. The home team posted 265 off 50 overs on a pitch which assisted bowlers.…

Bhubaneswar: The Centre on Friday clarified that the proposal for an amendment to the IAS Cadre Rules would not affect the interest or authority of the states. In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for…

Jaipur: The hijab controversy, which originated in Karnataka, is spreading in different parts of the country. Pro-hijab protests and agitations were reported from a number of states including Rajasthan, where Muslim girls of a private…

Bengaluru: Five faculty members of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) have written to National Commission for Women (NCW) urging it to urgently take suo motu cognisance of reports of Muslim women students’ intimidation based…

New Delhi: Airtel users across the country faced a brief outage on Friday due to a technical glitch, affecting both broadband and cellular users. Users took to social media to flag the outage, which was soon fixed, with Airtel sending…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha legislative council issue took a new turn on Friday as the state Assembly Speaker countered the Centre's contention that it had not received any resolution in this regard. Speaking to the media persons, here,…

New Delhi: India reported 58,077 fresh COVID-19 infections that took the case tally to 4,25,36,137 in the last 24 hours on Friday. The active caseload has declined to 6,97,802, according to the data released by the Union health ministry on…