Acharya will head the governing body for all technical institutions for a period of three years.
Yoga guru Swami Ramdev has criticised religious conversion by inducement and said he would work to build a healthy and stronger India by taking the benefits of yoga and ayurveda to more than six lakh villages in two years.
India's harsh lockdown has left companies grappling with temporary closure, chaotic supply chains and depressed demand. Consequently, business plans have been modified.
Two armed ultras stormed the Topadihi railway station and asked the assistant station manager not to allow any goods train pass through the route
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with a service revolver in Baripada on Friday evening, police said.
Some people stand out just by being unassuming. Sanak Mishra, chief executive officer (CEO), Mittal Steel India, is one of them.
Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has accorded its in-principle approval to the expansion plan of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) at a cost of Rs 9,869 crore (Rs 98.69 bn), the sources said.
India's hockey captain Dilip Tirkey married Rourkela girl Meera at a Catholic church on Monday.
2 killed, 9 injured as goods train derails
The girl had hit the headlines after the Budhia saga, when she completed a 60-km run in five hours and 23 minutes in the presence of Congress legislator Gregory Minz, himself a former state hockey player.
The second edition of the Premier Hockey League will also have a best-of-three final.
The incident occurred when about 50 persons from a village in Jharsuguda district were on their way to Sambalpur by the Rourkela-Sambalpur DMU train in connection with a marriage.
One-and-half-year-old Arpit Diwan, who was kidnapped in Delhi on January 31, was rescued on Saturday in Sundergarh district of Orissa.
Cutting across party lines, chief ministers and others leaders urged the people to follow the self-imposed curfew from 7 am to 9 pm, noting that "social distancing" was key to breaking the chain of infection, as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 283 after 60 new cases were detected on Saturday, the highest so far in a day, and states like Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar imposed partial lockdown till month end.
The 1986 batch Odisha cadre IPS officer has been described as a competent officer and is known for his acumen in handling disasters.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
An unspecified number of people were evacuated from coastal areas of Odisha where Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore were likely to experience heavy rainfall accompanied by high-velocity winds, particularly on May 19 and 20, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
The prices of tomato are continuously moving up with the onset of monsoon due to strained supplies and higher wholesale prices in key producing states.
Proceeds will be utilised to expand company's hyperlocal shopping services to over 50 cities
ShopClues does 1.5 million transactions a month and claims to have 40 million monthly visitors.
Rickshaw pullers and construction workers are the worst hit.
The Congress's new treasurer Ahmed Patel has been meeting industrialists and businessmen. He met one of the biggest industrialists of the country last week, but the assurance of any significant donation was half-hearted from the other end. Business houses aren't exactly queuing up to offer donations, reports Archis Mohan.
Achin and Sarthak Narula join the list of KBC's crorepatis.
Decoding the JEE Main Paper 2.
In the third infrastructure sharing agreement between firms run by brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani, Reliance Industries' telecom arm has agreed to use Reliance Communication Ltd's intra-city fibre network to roll out 4G services.
The statement said the food inflation stood at 7.56 per cent in February, 2014, against 8.94 per cent of the previous month and 14.98 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year.
Designer Bibhu Mohapatra launches a new line of diamond jewellery inspired by his childhood memories.
Investigators were on Sunday looking into what caused one of the deadliest train accidents in recent times as rescue operations continued
There would be a marginal 3% increase in freight rates.
Organiser, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's organ, has alleged that prestigious institutes like Indian Institute of Technology were being turned into places for "anti-India and anti-Hindu" activities.
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale on Wednesday night jolted Delhi, National Capital Region, Chennai and parts of eastern and northern India including West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to properties.
His compensation in FY17 was more than the combined salaries of the entire boards of TCS, Wipro and Infosys. 'I am a self-made man from a very modest background,' Tech Mahindra's CEO C P Gurnani tells Shyamal Majumdar.
The company aims to make Lanjigarh refinery the first zero-based refinery in the world.
A day after the Supreme Court ruled that it was up to the prime minister to not induct those with criminal record into his Cabinet, Rediff.com examines how serious are the charges against some of Narendra Modi's ministers.
Some of the 19 NIT scholars who spent a week at the Rashtrapati Bhawan as part of an 'in-Residence Programme' share their learnings with Upasna Pandey
Hamid Anasari's was not talking of reservation for the whole religious community to which he too happens to belong. Yet, sections of media chose to put words into his mouth and then subject him to the criticism he never deserved. This does not augur well for our media or democracy, says Mohammad Sajjad.
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