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A team of senior administrative and health officials on Tuesday visited the Pardevanpurwa in Pokharpur in the district, where the state's first Zika case was reported on Saturday and reviewed the steps taken for the prevention and treatment of the infection.

The elephant menace has continued to wreak havoc on farmers in the Subrahmanya and Panja Reserve Forest areas of the Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka.

The Karnataka government has slashed the price of RT-PCR test, capping it at Rs 500 per test in private labs, down from Rs 800.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced establishment of child-friendly police stations one each in the 34 police districts in Odisha. Broader objective of the initiative is to make minors more comfortable while lodging complaints with the police without fear.

An infant boy that was abducted last week from Navinagri in Waghodia taluka was found in possession of a couple in Bihar that had paid Rs 2 lakh for it.

Amid torrential rains, the state of Uttarakhand has witnessed flooded roads, landslides, and overflowing rivers leaving people stranded in various places.

Heroin worth Rs 8 crore was seized in Assam's Nagaon and Karbi Anglong districts with one of the suspected drug peddlers injured in exchange of fire with the police, officials said on Tuesday.

Seventeen years ago, the discovery of a burial urn with human skeletons and potsherds created a buzz around Adhichanallur, 24km from Tirunelveli. But over the years the spotlight moved away.

Ignoring the opposition clamour for his ouster from the state council of ministers, Dibya Shankar Mishra addressed an event organised by state PSU Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha (IPICOL) to woo investors in the textiles sector.

For decades, the convent-educated have had an edge over others in higher education, especially in engineering colleges, owing to their good command over the English language. But for those from vernacular-medium schools, studying in a language they were not conversant with was a struggle.

The Punjab BJP has trashed Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s accusations that BJP and RSS helped the Congress in 2017 to make Captain Amarinder Singh Punjab chief minister. The allegation is result of frustration and desperation, BJP said, while advising the former alliance partner to introspect in place of passing the buck.

Election Commission of India has issued a notice to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seeking explanation for violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during campaigning in the five assembly constituencies in the state.

As if hike in fuel costs was not enough, the prices of staple food like rice, pulses, soybean, meat, fish and egg are skyrocketing, leaving the poor and the middle class households in the lurch amid the ongoing pandemic.

The state government on Monday started the process for delimitation of wards and ward-wise reservations for elections in 108 of the 115 urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state.

Three Odia filmmakers received the prestigious National Award on Monday.

Kashmiri students of an engineering college in Sangrur in Punjab landed in a scuffle with boys from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar inside their hostel on Sunday night for cheering Pakistan’s victory against India in the T20 World Cup cricket match. There was reportedly a similar incident in Mohali too.

After the detection of a new and reportedly more contagious mutation of the Covid-causing Delta variant (Delta AY 4.2) in MP's Indore, the Institute of Life Sciences here has swung into action to gauge its infectivity and possible presence in Odisha, which has largely two variants of the Delta virus (Delta AY 4 and Delta AY 12).

With the improvement of the pandemic situation in Assam, the state govt eased the Covid-19 related restrictions on Tuesday, limiting the night curfew from 11pm to 5am.

With temples across the state now open on all days, the Hindu religious and charitable endowments (HR and CE) and tourism departments will collaborate to launch spiritual tourism packages. The Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) will operate the tours and the HR and CE department will facilitate darshan on priority, unlike now.

Normal life was paralysed in Sambalpur district on Tuesday due to the dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Sambalpur district BJP.

The role of the excise department has come under the scanner for allegedly turning a blind eye to dance bars being run illegally in the city.

A lawyer was shot dead allegedly by an unidentified assailant in Uttar Pradesh's Noida, police officials said on Tuesday.