Bhubaneswar: Acting on a tip-off, the economic offences wing (EOW) of the state crime branch on Wednesday arrested a gold appraiser of a leading public sector bank for allegedly misappropriating Rs 5.21 crore by fraudulently sanctioning and disbursing 105 loans without proper documentation and using fake ornaments as collateral.“Accused Prashanta Kumar Mallick, who served as…
An elephant overpass between Adenigarh and Charichhak stations. Odisha, on an average, reports 85 elephant deaths annually, according to govt data Khurda Road-Balangir new railway line – a 301km-long project conceived even before India became independent, is finally nearing full completion by early next year. One of the country’s oldest pending railway projects, it passes…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Thursday ruled out imposing restrictions on sale of petrol and diesel, asserting there was no shortage of oil and gas and that refiners were tying up additional imports.Calling India an “oasis of energy security” that supplies refined fuel to over 150 countries, govt said domestic petrol and diesel availability is structurally…
Aviation giant Air India group on Tuesday revised its fuel surcharge across domestic and international routes, as Middle East tensions continued to weigh oil supplies across the globe. The move follows the decision by the ministry of petroleum & natural gas and the ministry of civil aviation to cap the increase in domestic aviation turbine…
NEW DELHI: A suspected bomb was reported on railway tracks about 1.5 kilometres from Sainthia railway station in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Wednesday, triggering a swift response from security agencies and leading to a temporary halt in train movement on one track.As per news agency ANI, Personnel from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress on Friday moved Supreme Court, challenging the additional chief electoral officer’s decision mandating “at least one among the counting supervisor and counting assistant at each counting table shall be a central govt/central PSU employee” for counting of votes for the recently concluded assembly elections.The party sought an urgent hearing, as the…
Gold, which is often considered the safe haven asset, has also failed to rise to the occasion for investors. (AI image) Stock markets are in deep red and in all likelihood so is your investment portfolio since the start of the US-Israel-Iran war. The conflict has been a perfect storm for stock markets globally, and…
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Cuttack: Orissa high court has directed the Orissa High Court Bar Association to submit a fresh list of advocates to represent all 59 wards under Cuttack Municipal Corporation in connection with an ongoing PIL on civic issues affecting the city.A special bench comprising Justices K R Mohapatra and V Narasingh issued the direction while taking…
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India said the outlook for prices has shifted due to upside risks, even as data shows sustained resilience of the Indian economy, and warned that a prolonged war would be detrimental to the broader global outlook.According to the State of the Economy report, there was a “drastic deterioration” in the global…
