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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…

After failing to contain Narendra Modi's rising popularity in the country, the Congress and some other "secular" parties in India have shown their utter desperation by writing a letter to US President Barack Obama not to grant visa to the…

After two Gram Sabhas in Rayagada district, it's the turn of another Gram Sabha in Odisha's Kalahandi district to say NO to bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri Hills by Vedanta. Another nine Gram Sabhas will be held soon in both these…