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Bhubaneswar: Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, who trained in Bhubaneswar before the Tokyo Olympics, is all praise for the environment and infrastructure the Odisha government has created to promote sports. Speaking to an Odia news…

New Delhi: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is set to promote “vegetarian-friendly travel” by having some trains “sattvik certified”. The trains running on routes connecting religious sites will be especially…

Bhubaneswar: Army officers who worked with Colonel Viplav Tripathi, the Commanding Officer (CO) of 46 Assam Rifles who was killed in an ambush in Manipur, described him as a “josh machine” and “always smiling”, according to media reports.…

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Saturday that cows, their dung and urine, can play a crucial role in strengthening India’s economy. “A lot of work cannot progress without cows or ox. Therefore, they are…

New Delhi: The Centre flagged concerns over the use of cryptocurrency for money laundering and terror financing. The matter was taken up for discussion during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said government sources. “The…

New Delhi: Countries at the Glasgow climate change meeting struck a deal aimed at keeping hopes alive for meeting the 1.5 degree Celsius temperature goal and averting a climate catastrophe. But the pact came only after India and China were…

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of fall in COVID infections in the country, the Ministry of Railways has decided to change the Mail/Express/Passenger and Holiday Special train services to regular train services with immediate effect and revert to…

Nagpur: In one of the longest encounters, lasting almost 10 hours, at least 26 Maoists were killed in a fierce battle with security forces in a dense forest in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on Saturday. According to police, four…

Mumbai: The country’s financial capital on Saturday achieved 100% COVID-19 vaccine coverage of its population. Mumbai’s milestone was completed more than three months after Odisha capital Bhubaneswar became the first major urban city in…

New Delhi: Hours after Supreme Court termed the pollution situation in Delhi-NCR as ‘emergency’ and suggested a lockdown be clamped in the national capital, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday evening announced measures to tackle the…