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A green solution to garbage menace
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Handling of garbage, which has become a major concern of the state, may finally get a solution if a proposal i..
UK's atomic clock 'is world's most accurate'
The world's most accurate clock would lose or gain less than a second in some 138 million years.
Essar displaced stall pipeline work
PARADIP: Hundreds of displaced families, including women, under the banner of Essar Steel Displaced and Land losers Society stall..
Literary fest from September 24
THIRVANANTHAPURAM: The registrations to the literary festival to be held in September, hosted by Indian Ruminations - Journal of ..
EPFO staffer held for taking bribe
ROURKELA: An official of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) Guman Tubid was arrested on Thursday evening for taking..
Man who threatened KV Singhdeo held
BALANGIR: A team of Balangir police on Friday evening arrested a suspected Maoist, who had allegedly been giving threat calls to P..
Hike minimum wage to Rs. 200, demands INTUC
BHUBANESWAR: Accusing the BJD Government of pursuing anti-labour policies, the INTUC has demanded hiking minimum daily wages..
Hot-air balloons to pull crowd to Beach fest
BHUBANESWAR: To draw crowd to Puri Beach Festival this year, the State Government is planning to bring in hot-air balloons as a sp..
Collector orders to probe charges of negligence
CUTTACK: Shaken by allegations of death of a woman due to alleged negligence at the City Hospital, the third within one and half m..
Government decides to amend ORV Act
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to amend the Orissa Reservation of Vacancies in Posts and Services (for SCs and Sts)..
Dinesh Reddy case hearing adjourned to September
HYDERABAD: The action of the state government in posting me as the director general of police is valid and justifiable, DGP V Dine..
A hut turned into a two-storey tuition centre
BANGALORE: M Kasi, the son of a vegetable vendor at Ambedkarnagar in Gandhinagar Assembly constituency, wanted to utilise his leis..
Woman commits suicide
BANGALORE: A techies wife, who was suffering from schizophrenia, ended her life by hanging herself at her residence at Annaiah Re..
Research on HINI deaths
BANGALORE: Researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in association with Rajiv Gandhi I..
Traffic curbs at Dhoolpet for buyers of Ganesha
The restrictions will be in force from August 28 till September 1, in view of sale and transportation of Ganesha idols...
Lokpal bill: TN Seshan for EC-like body
CHENNAI: Any arrangement on Lokpal should be made in full concurrence with the Constitution while maintaining the supremacy of Par..