Bhubaneswar: The water level in river Subarnarekha receded and flowed below the danger level Friday, though several villages in Odisha's Balasore district remained inundated in the flood waters, officials said. According to the water resources department, the water level of Subarnarekha at Rajghat was 9.63 metres against the danger level of 10.36 metres. Though the water level...

Beirut: The Israeli military announced that its airstrike Friday on a neighbourhood of Beirut killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official. There was no immediate confirmation of his death from Hezbollah. The Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 60 others, according to Lebanese health officials,...

Srinagar: Over a dozen BSF troopers were injured when a bus carrying the forces' personnel for election duty met with an accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district Friday, officials said. A hired bus carrying BSF jawans for election duty for the second phase of assembly polls fell into a gorge near Brel of Watarhaal in Budgam...

Sonbhadra (UP): A speeding private bus overturned in the Robertsganj area here Friday, leaving one passenger dead and 43 injured, police said. The accident happened around 4.30 pm in Markundi valley here when it was going to Bihar's Gaya from Chhattisgarh, Additional Superintendent of Police Kalu Singh said. "Due to high speed, the driver lost control of...

New Delhi: The swearing-in ceremony of AAP leader Atishi as Delhi chief minister is expected to take place at Raj Niwas Saturday evening, officials said. The official details of the timing of the oath ceremony are awaited as the process for gazette notification for resignation of outgoing chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, formation of the new government and...

Bhubaneswar: Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida, also the Mission Shakti Minister, inaugurated a Mission Shakti auditorium and Mission Shakti call centre on the premises of Mission Shakti Bhawan at Pokhariput here, Friday. The auditorium, a state-of-the-art facility with a seating capacity of 400, was constructed by IDCO with an expenditure of Rs 7.59 crore. The auditorium is...

Baripada: At least three persons, including a minor boy, died and 21 others were taken ill due to diarrhoea in Albandh village in Mayurbhanj district, officials said. The sick villagers are undergoing treatment at PRM Medical College and Hospital, Baripada, sources in the medical facility said. A team of doctors has been sent to the village, said...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress Friday alleged that women are not feeling safe in the state as the law and order has collapsed under the BJP rule and more incidents of rape are taking place. Addressing a press conference here, Congress' women's wing leader Sonali Sahu alleged that crime against women, especially rape and gang rape, has increased...

Bhubaneswar: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, former Army chief VK Singh and several others Friday reacted angrily to the alleged torture of an army man and "sexual assault" of his fiancée inside a police station in Odisha. They slammed the state's BJP government over the incident, while Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said his...

Bhubaneswar: The alleged sexual assault of an army officer's fiancee at a police station here sparked outrage Friday with former chief minister Naveen Patnaik condemning the incident as "shocking" and demanding a judicial probe while state chief minister Mohan Majhi vowing to take stringent action against the guilty. Also on Friday, the Odisha Police Crime Branch registered...