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BJP youth wing on Thursday staged a massive rally near the state assembly protesting against the increased rate of unemployment in Odisha. Police detained several protestors at the lower PMG and released later.

Housing and urban development minister Pratap Jena on Thursday clarified that the state will not extend deadline of amnesty scheme (Sarbakshama Yojana) further to regularize unauthorized constructions in nine development authorities including Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear on February 24 the plea against the Allahabad high court order granting bail to former BJP lawmaker Swami Chinmayanand in an alleged rape case lodged by a law student.

A special court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, cases on Tuesday sentenced a 28-year-old man to eight years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his minor cousin.

Upcoming Odia film, Bajiba Lo Shahanai, that has Sambit Acharya, Amlan Das and Jhillik Bhattacharya in lead roles, is in the post-production stage.

Mahurat of upcoming Odia film, Mama weds Papa, was held in a city temple recently. The movie that’s set to be directed by Apu Kanungo has a new pair of actors playing the lead roles.

Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey and social activist Medha Patkar accused the All Assam Student's Union (Aasu) of having an understanding with the the BJP-led state government and "guiding the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) movement as per their wishes".

The Xavier University has recorded a 100 per cent placement of students this season in its three schools - Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier School of Human Resource Management and Xavier School of Rural Management.

An undergraduate student has been booked for abusing a lady teacher and thrashing principal of a college in Jamnagar. The agitated student had allegedly hurled abuses towards other teachers as well and threatened to kill the principal.

With coronavirus claiming more than 2,000 lives across the world, with a vast majority of these deaths reported in China, till Wednesday, effects of the epidemic can now be seen in Jharkhand as well.

In view of the Maha Shivaratri festival, train No 56605 Coimbatore- Thrissur passenger will be extended to Aluva of February 21.

Unidentified criminals allegedly shot dead a former hockey player and another person outside an eatery in Patiala's Pratap Nagar area on Wednesday night. The deceased have been identified as Amrik Singh, son of Gurjant Singh, and Simranjit Singh Happy, son of Darshan Singh.

Fearing a three-year ban after being expelled for cheating during the Class X board examination, a girl student from Assam's Barpeta district has committed suicide by consuming pesticides.

At least 19 people including four women were killed while several others sustained serious injuries when a Kochi-bound Kerala roadways bus collided with a lorry in Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu early on Thursday. There were 48 passengers inside the bus. The accident occurred in Avinashi area. Rescue operations are under way.

Father of 30-year-old Harinder Kumar, one of the three Punjabi men killed in a gruesome triple murder in Seven Kings, east London, on January 19, had a heart attack in London and was in hospital on Wednesday when one of the accused in the case, also a Punjabi man, appeared in the court. His trial will commence on June 29, 2020.

It was 12 years back when the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) – the marketers of brand Amul – earned the prestigious tag of becoming India’s first billion-dollar milk cooperative with its turnover touching Rs 5,255 crore.