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Chief minister Sri Naveen Patnaik flagged off the 6.6 km Biju Patnaik mini-marathon (2015) from Biju Patnaik Park (Forest Park) which concluded at Kalinga Stadium today. Nearly 10,000 runners lined up for the 10th mini-marathon held in…

Kendu leaf operations in Odisha provides direct employment and supplementary livelihood to more than 8.38 lakh people at grass root level and generates additional 18 lakh man days each year. This has come to notice from the Kendu Leaf…

Bangladesh performed as a batting unit to hunt down an imposing 319-run target set by minnows Scotland in a World Cup Pool A encounter at the Saxton Oval in Nelson on Thursday. By virtue of the win, the youngest Test-playing nation…

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday moved a parliamentary motion commemorating the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER jet was carrying 239…

Film: "Coffee Bloom"; Cast: Arjun Mathur, Sugandha Garg, Mohan Kapoor; Director: Manu Warrier; Rating: ** Debutant director Manu Warrier's feature is a baffling bewildering exasperating mound of undecipherable drama, built into a…

Film: "Badmaashiyan"; Cast: Suzanna Mukherjee, Sidhant Gupta, Karan Mehra, Sharib Hashmi; Director: Amit Khanna; Rating: *** A well-intended sawach-aur-saaf-suthri comedy "Badmaashiyan" is a curiously content-driven rom-com with one of…

President Barack Obama has nominated Sunil Sabharwal, an independent Indian American investor in the payments sector, as US Alternate Executive Director at International Monetary Fund for a term of two years. The White House sent…

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip BSE Sensitive Index, BSE Sensex, was trading flat in the afternoon session on Thursday. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading flat, down 16…

Is your smartphone affecting your mental health? Yes, to a great extent, says new research. More and more people are becoming addicted to smartphones and this addiction is resulting in a host of psychological conditions. "Higher scores of…

Hitting back at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's potshot on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Wi-Fi services at the Varanasi ghats, the BJP on Thursday said his anti-technology mindset will not take him far in politics. The…