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The Narendra Modi government Wednesday appointed India's envoy in the US, S. Jaishankar, as the new foreign secretary, replacing incumbent Sujatha Singh six months before her term was to end. The sudden appointment has echoes of the sudden…

The Cabinet Wednesday approved a reserve price of Rs 3,705 crore per megahertz (MHz) for third generation (3G) spectrum auction due March 4 next, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. “In 2010 3G auction, the…

President Pranab Mukherjee has finally given his assent to Odisha Lokayukta Bill, 2014, making it an Act. The Bill was adopted by the Odisha Assembly on February 14, 2014. Odisha was the second state after Uttarakhand to pass the…

The BJP might get a majority in the upcoming Delhi assembly elections by winning 37 seats in the 70-member house, an opinion poll suggested Wednesday. The opinion poll, conducted by India TV-CVoter, said there would be no change in the…

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the digitized ration cards scheme under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) at Chakeishiani in Ward No 5 of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today. He distributed digitized ration cards to…

National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)/Orissa Regional Forum for Social Action (OROSA) demanded for proper implementation of TSP & SCSP in the state of Odisha during the coming financial year of 2015-16 during the pre-budget…

Type 2 diabetes is preventable in up to 60 percent of cases if early signs are recognised and acted upon, experts have said. "Eight percent of the Austrian population suffers from diabetes but only two-thirds know they have it," Xinhua news…

At least 92 suspected militants were killed in Pakistan's North Waziristan and Khyber Agency areas in airstrikes on their hideouts, Dawn reported Wednesday. “In a precise aerial strike in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan in the afternoon…

President Barack Obama’s visit to India has helped forge a new commercial relationship between India and the US, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday. "President Barack Obama's visit to India has helped forge a new commercial…

The country's largest mortgage lender -- State Bank of India (SBI) -- has decided to raise equity capital of Rs.15,000 crore to meet the increased capital needs for matching the anticipated growth in business, the bank said. The bank said…