Odishatv Bureau

Chennai: A hardcore fan of former India skipper M.S.Dhoni in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district has painted his house in yellow — the Chennai Super Kings colour in the Indian Premier League. Not only the outer...

Bhubaneswar: Some shocking facts have emerged from the revelations obtained through an RTI application pertaining to Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik’s aerial survey of flood-hit areas, recently. On August 31, CM Naveen Patnaik had conducted an...

Hyderabad: Torrential rains lashing various parts of Telangana since Tuesday have claimed 30 lives, including 19 in Greater Hyderabad. The rains, under the impact of a deep depression that crossed the Andhra coast on Tuesday,...

Bhubaneswar: Considering the intensity and frequency of natural disasters in the state, the Odisha government has decided to strengthen its disaster-fighting arms with hi-tech equipment and innovative training, said an official on Wednesday. In a...

Berhampur: Seven wild boars were found dead under mysterious circumstances near the Berhampur University campus in this south Odisha city, triggering panic among the locals, officials said on Wednesday. Post-mortem examinations of the carcasses of...

Bhubaneswar: Cautioning against complacence, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday asked officials to refer to Kerala and the European countries where there has been a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, while tackling the pandemic in...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced that the country has registered the second Covid-19 vaccine, according to media reports. Russia became the first country to give regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine in...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 38.4 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,091,240, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of...

Bhubaneswar: Former speaker of Odisha Legislative Assembly and writer, Sarat Kar, who passed away on Monday here at a private hospital, was not given his due right of a State farewell posthumously. Kar’s family, several...

Washington: India’s priorities should be to protect the most vulnerable people, well targeted support and protecting small and medium sized enterprises so that they do not collapse as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic, Managing...

Washington: The world is experiencing one of the deepest recessions since the Great Depression in the 1930s owing to the novel coronavirus, World Bank President David Malpass has said, terming the COVID-19 pandemic a “catastrophic...

New Delhi: Winter could be colder this season due to the prevailing La Nina conditions, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra said on Wednesday. He said there should not be an impression that...

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 73.07 lakh with 67,735 new cases in a day, while 63,83,441 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 87.35 per cent on...

Geneva: Despite a steady progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) across the world, global targets for its prevention and treatment will likely be missed due to insufficient funding and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to a...

Bhubaneswar: The Khordha district administration on Wednesday began demolishing boundary wall of OTV’s Sarua CSR project without notice without issuing any prior notice. According to Begunia Tehsildar Prithviraj Mandal, the demolition is being carried out...

New Delhi: For many stars, the new normal is green. Many Bollywood celebrities used the lockdown period to ditch a non-vegetarian diet and go vegan. While some have taken to the habit owing to climate...

New Delhi: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, an IIT alumnus from Odisha, Piyush Agrawal has successfully designed a new mask claiming it to be better in functionality with protection against the novel-Coronavirus and pollutants in the...

Thiruvananthapuram: Three weeks after eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri was conferred with the Jnanpith award, the hugely popular writer often referred to as Akkitham, passed away at a hospital in Thrissur on Thursday morning,...

New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday, during the hearing of Republic TV plea against the summons issued by the Mumbai Police to the news channel in connection with the alleged Television Rating Point (TRP) scam,...

Riyadh: G20 Finance Ministers and central bankers have agreed to extend the debt relief for poor countries by six more months until June 2021 in an effort to help the nations weather the coronavirus-induced impact...