Mohanty said the Army had taken several steps to prevent a repetition of 1999 when India lost over 500 soldiers while evicting Pakistan-backed intruders from strategic heights in the Kargil region.
The discussion was part of a digital campaign which was launched by former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, actors Babushaan Mohanty and Rachel White last year to demand 'Bharat Ratna' for Major Dhyan Chand.
A round-up of Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
Gujarat state administration is preparing to face 'Cyclone Nilofar', which has developed in the Arabian Sea and is likely to move towards the state's coast, Gujarat meteorological department said.
In the second shortest trial in Rajasthan, the son of a top police officer was Wednesday awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment by a local court, 22 days after he raped a German tourist in Alwar.
She is understood to have told the agency that she vaguely remembered someone approaching her for party donations, CBI sources said.
This year, campuses placed most number of students in the first phase compared to past few years.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Saturday.
To further ensure employability of students, IITs are encouraging students to positively accept more number of pre-placement offers and not wait till final placement season
Pranati Mohanty from Bengaluru shares her best life lesson.
Coimbatore based reader Bibhuti Bhusan Mohanty shared his story.
The two-page booklet "Aama Bapuji: Eka Jhalaka" (Our Bapuji: A Glimpse) -- published on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi -- presents a brief account of his teachings, works and links with Odisha, while also stating that he "died due to accidental reasons in a sudden sequence of events on January 30, 1948 at Delhi's Birla House".
Goa's former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat was asked to furnish a surety of Rs 1 lakh.
A summary of Thursday's matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy limited-overs' tournament.
It said no payment has so far been made towards rental charges for the Lokpal office at 'The Ashok' hotel.
A Kerala police team, which took German woman rape case convict Bitti Mohanty to Rajasthan for gathering evidence, returned to Kannur in the wee hours of Monday with the fugitive after collecting proof to confirm his identity.
Useful tips from fitness expert Meenakshi Mohanty to ensure that you keep your health a priority during this time of decadent meals and excessive drinks.
A round-up of results from the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday.
Odisha on Monday got its first fast-track court here to deal exclusively with cases of sexual offences against women.
At least 19 students were injured when a low-intensity bomb exploded inside a classroom of a government-run school on the outskirts of Cuttack city on Monday, police said.
A round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Three days after their arrest in a dowry torture case, former Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife were granted bail by a local court on Tuesday.
Seven workers were on Monday injured after Central Industrial Security Force personnel opened fire to prevent labourers without valid passes from entering an oil refinery at Paradip in Odisha.
A Kerala police team probing the antecedents of Raghav Rajan, whom the police believe to be Bitihotra Mohanti, the rape convict son of a former Odisha Director General of police, on Friday said his certificate from a private university in Bhubaneshwar was fake.
The camps would be conducted on December 22 at Gharowa Sonapur Village in Darrang district, an official statement said.
The Kerala police on Monday formed a 20-member Special Investigation Team to investigate and collect details about rape case convict Bitti Mohanty after he jumped parole in 2006 while serving a seven-year sentence in Alwar in Rajasthan, till his arrest from Kannur last week.
Since 2015, Odisha has been embroiled in a bitter battle over the origin of the delicacy with West Bengal, which had in 2017 secured the GI tag for 'Banglar Rasogolla'.
Ashok Menaria and Kedar Jadhav hit half centuries as India 'A' scored a nail-biting two-wicket victory over New Zealand 'A' in the third and final one-dayer in Visakhapatnam on Thursday. The victory, which was achieved with four balls to spare, gave the hosts a 3-0 series triumph.
Search and seizure operations are necessary in an India that seems more dishonest.
Spinners Shahbaz Nadeem (4/31) and Sunny Gupta (3/56) wreaked havoc as Jharkhand bundled out Odisha for 152 on the first day of the last group league encounter of the Ranji Trophy in Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday.
A court in Kannur on Thursday rejected the plea by police seeking another 10 days custody of the German woman rape case convict Bitti Mohanty, now remanded to prison.
Two associations representing pilots and engineers have written to SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar proposing that they would take over the airline and can bring in up to Rs 7,000 crore.
With only 1.21 lakh completed out of a targeted 4.19 lakh, the government seems to be in a race against time to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of ensuring toilets in all schools.
The Lokpal chairperson, all of its eight members and support staff are being allocated space in the hotel premises.
Italian hostage Paolo Bosusco was released by the Maoists on Thursday, 29 days after he was abducted along with his countryman Claudio Colangelo by the Naxals in Odisha's Kandhamal district.
Deepak Behera took a six-wicket haul as Odisha bundled out Uttar Pradesh for a meagre 160 and then themselves slumped to 70 for five on the opening day of their last Ranji Trophy Group B league match, in Cuttack on Saturday.
Biplab Samantray took three wickets as pacers put Odisha on top against Vidarbha on the opening day of their Group B Ranji Trophy match at the DRIEMS Ground in Cuttack on Saturday.
Odisha closed in on an outright victory against Haryana after polishing off the top-order of the hosts in the second innings as well in their Group B Ranji Trophy match in Rohtak.
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