National News Updates

Bhubaneswar: As many as 40 shanties in Indradhanu Market area under Nayapalli police station here were gutted in a major fire which broke out this morning. Reports reaching here said three fire tenders which were pressed into service have brought the fire under control. No loss of life is reported in the incident. “From preliminary […]

Bhubaneswar: An IndiGo flight made emergency landing at Biju Patnaik International airport here at 7.50 am on Monday after a passenger complained of severe chest pain. “It was an over flying flight which had an emergency landing at the Biju Patnaik International airport here following a passenger complained a severe chest pain”, said Sarad Kumar, […]

By Brij Khandelwal Agra: As more and more educated youngsters of Agra flee to greener pastures, the Taj city is becoming a haven for retirees, who find the slow pace of life here in tune with their ageing rhythm. “This city is strange; no one seems in any feverish hurry and people have ample time […]

Bhubaneswar: Elated over hearing her name in the radio programme “Mann Ki Baat”, Jamunamani Singh, a tribal woman of Balasore district in Odisha, today thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for recognising her fight against Malaria. “I am very, very happy. I cannot express that Modi ‘Sarkar’ will take my name in his Mann Ki Baat […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the three-day remand of Ramchandran Subhas, main accused in the series of fire incidents at Puri railway station ends today, the Government Railway Police (GRP) is most likely to seek his remand extension to conduct polygraph test on the accused. Investigating officials said though the Puri SDJM court had allowed the GRP […]

Bhubaneswar: Suspense continues over the identity of Ramachandran Subhas, the main accused in the Puri series train fire incident, and his three associates whose name he took during the interrogation by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Sunday. It is clear that Subhas belong to Tamil Nadu. But his residential proof is yet to be […]

Bhubaneswar: In an attempt to make people aware about the ‘failure’ of ruling BJD on several issues, the Congress is organizing its second leg of third phase Jagaran Yatra from Sankhemundi Block in Ganjam district today. Informing this to media, senior Congress leader Chandrasekhar Sahu said, “We will expose the BJD govt’s failure on every […]

Bhubaneswar: At least ten Odia youths have field a complaint at Jamsedpur police station after being cheated by a job consultancy firm in the city. In their FIR, the youths who hail from Berhampur stated that Jamsedpur-based Safe Sea Academy of Marine had taken abut Rs 90,000 from each of them but they are forced […]

Bhubaneswar: With the BJP central committee deciding in principle to elect the new president for the Odisha unit tentatively by the first week of January next year, speculations are rife on the prospective candidates for the top post. Among the aspirants, the name of the leader of the BJP Legislature Party Basant Panda is under […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition Congress and BJP is all set to grill Naveen Patnaik led BJD government in the forthcoming winter session of Odisha Assembly beginning December 1 making the farmer suicide and irregularities in ration card distribution as main subject of discussion. The saffron party has decided to make peasants’ issues main weapon while Congress too […]

Balangir: In a joint raid on Saturday night, the District Labour officials and the Town Police rescued 51 migrant labourers from three buses while they were taken to the neighbouring states. Acting on a tip-off, the officials of the a joint team of officials of the District Labour Office and the Town Police raided a […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP will aggressively raise the drought and farmer suicide issues during the forthcoming winter session of Odisha Assembly beginning December 1 and seek White Paper from the government on the two contentious issues. It was decided in the BJP legislature party meeting held here on Sunday at party State headquarters. “The BJP will […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised an Odia woman who prepared the people of a malaria-infested-village to fight the deadly disease. In his Mann Ki Baat radio programme ,Modi appreciated Jamunamani Singh, an ASHA worker of Balasore district for her efforts to make her locality a malaria free area. “Jamunamani Singh with […]

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) on has announced schedule for Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC) and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (ICSE). The ISC (Class XII) examinations will begin from February 8 and end on April 8 while the ICSE (Class X) examinations will start from February 29 and end […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Teachers Eligibility Test (OTET) results for the year 2015 will be announced on December 1. Candidates who have appeared for the examination can log on to www.prestigeresults.com and www.indiaresults.com to check their results and can download OMR answer copies of the test from these two websites on December 2. According to reports, […]