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A week after 23 school children died after consuming mid-day-meal in Bihar, police arrested the principal of the Dharmasati Gandaman primary school in Chhapra, Meena Devi. Her husband Arjun Prasad Yadav, a co-accused, is still at large.…

Senior BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha, who recently raised the banner of revolt by criticising the party's functioning in the media and even raised questions on Narendra Modi's leadership while batting for LK Advani, is moving closer to the JD…

Captain Virat Kohli scored his 15th ODI hundred, as India defeated Zimbabwe in the first ODI to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Debutant Ambati Rayudu made his presence felt with an unbeaten fifty, while Amit Mishra took three…

Senior Congress leader and former president of Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress (OPMC) Ashima Mahananda died of cancer on Wednesday. She was undergoing treatment at Hemalata Hospital in Bhubaneswar for past few months. Mahananda passed away…

By Srikant Mohanty: First television and subsequently a change in life-style leading to hectic schedules gradually did away with the passion for reading the favorite authors in detective novels. Few in the present generation even know that…

Apple’s quarterly iPhone sales in India have dropped this year. As per the Research firm ‘Strategy Analytics’, nearly 10 million smartphones were sold in India during this quarter. Immediately following the launch of iPhone 5 last year,…

In a surprising development, which comes as a huge setback for the Congress, JD(U) and many other "secular" parties in India, Pakistan has shown interest in working with Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, who is also considered as the BJP's Prime…

Odia, the first language of Odisha will soon get classical language status. Once achieved, Odia will be the sixth in India to get this status after Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit and Tamil. . The State has been making the demand ever…

A Sessions Court in Mumbai has framed charges against Bollywood Actor Salman Khan in the 11-year-old hit & run case. Salman is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. If found guilty,  he could get a sentence up to 10…

Call it a "rude joke" on the poor of the country or a political gimmick, the Planning Commission has come up with sensational statistics that poverty in India has declined to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 in 2004-05. The data aimed at…