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Bhubaneswar, May 1: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik yesterday asked his party MLA Jhina Hikaka to “relax” and questioned why the legislator should quit, as demanded by the Maoists before his release on April 26.
“The BJD president told me that I looked depressed and asked me to relax with my family and friends and be free of tension of any kind (threat of resignation), as I have spent 34 days in the jungle,” Hikaka told reporters after a 90 minute meeting with Patnaik at the Naveen Niwas.

Gorakhpur (UP): 20 people were killed and 25 injured when two buses fell into a ditch after a head-on collision near a bridge in Chiluataal area here .

Mumbai: Commenting on the nomination of cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today said it was the “dirtiest play” of Congress.

NEW DELHI: The Tatra trucks being supplied to the Indian Army are obsolete, running on fuel-guzzling old engines with mechanical transmissions that are years behind the rest of the world, Army sources said. The details are believed to be part of Army chief General V K Singh's inputs to the CBI.

United Nations, Apr 28: After a gap of more than two decades, India's nominee Justice Dalveer Bhandari was on Friday overwhelmingly elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice, defeating his Filipino rival in the UN General Assembly as well as the Security Council.

New Delhi: The per capita income in Delhi has increased by over 16 per cent to Rs 1.75 lakh in 2011-12 compared to the previous fiscal, which is three times the national average and second highest in the country, says a Delhi government report.

New Delhi: India is expected to receive normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced here . 

New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar, who turned 39 yesterday, will now become a Parliamentarian with the government nominating him to the House of Elders, Rajya Sabha, along with actress of yesteryear Rekha and industrialist Anu Aga.

VARANASI: Though it was well past midnight when film star Aamir Khan made his promised appearance at the low profile wedding function of the son of an auto-rickshaw driver in Mahmoorganj on Wednesday, it nevertheless created some law and order problems and a lot of jostling for a glimpse of the actor.