Will focus on ‘Odisha Vision 2036-2047’: New Chief Secretary Anu Garg

Will focus on ‘Odisha Vision 2036-2047’: New Chief Secretary Anu Garg

Anu Garg assumed charge as Odisha’s first woman Chief Secretary, pledging to advance ‘Odisha Vision 2036-2047’ through governance reforms, ease of doing business, youth empowerment and inclusive development. Odisha’s first woman Chief Secretary Anu Garg Photograph: (OTV (File)) Anu Garg assumed office as Odisha’s first woman Chief Secretary, taking over the charge from outgoing Chief

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Russia Deploys Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Oreshnik Missiles in Belarus

Russia Deploys Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Oreshnik Missiles in Belarus

Updated 30 December 2025 at 19:01 IST Russia releases video showing deployment of its nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile system in Belarus, raising tensions as Moscow boosts its strike capability across Europe amid the Ukraine war. Russia Deploys Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Oreshnik Missiles in Belarus | Image: AP New Delhi: Russia released video on Tuesday of what

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Travis Head Reveals His Post-Ashes Plans: ‘Looking Forward to Having a Drink With Ben Duckett’

Travis Head Reveals His Post-Ashes Plans: ‘Looking Forward to Having a Drink With Ben Duckett’

Updated 31 December 2025 at 11:44 IST Ashes 2025-26: Australian opener Travis Head has revealed his post-Ashes plan and it is quite an interesting one. Australia’s Travis Head celebrates his century in Adelaide against England | Image: AP Ashes 2025-26: Australia have been unstoppable in the ongoing Ashes series. The hosts won the first three

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The U.S. tariff shock, India’s pharma future

The U.S. tariff shock, India’s pharma future

In September 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping announcement imposing a 100% tariff on branded and patented pharmaceutical imports from October 1, 2025, saw India’s pharmaceutical industry, which has long been hailed as the “pharmacy of the world”, standing at a crossroads. The U.S.’s move, ostensibly aimed at bolstering domestic manufacturing, threatens to disrupt supply

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India test-launches indigenously built solid-propellant quasi-ballistic missile

India test-launches indigenously built solid-propellant quasi-ballistic missile

ISTANBUL India said Wednesday it successfully conducted a salvo launch of two indigenously built, surface-to-surface short-range Pralay missiles during user evaluation trials, according to a statement by the Defense Ministry. The ministry said the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) carried out the launch in quick succession from the same launcher off the coast of

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Ease of Voting: India’s next democratic reform agenda for migrants, NRIs, and PwDs

Ease of Voting: India’s next democratic reform agenda for migrants, NRIs, and PwDs

India has framed national reform agendas around ‘ease of living’ and ‘ease of doing business’, recognising that administrative convenience is not a luxury but a democratic obligation. It’s time to extend the same reformist lens to voting. ‘Ease of voting’ must now define the next phase of India’s democratic reform agenda. Migrants Census 2011 recorded

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