National News Updates

New Delhi: A firefighter succumbed to injuries after he got trapped under the debris for about 9 hours at a battery manufacturing factory which caught fire early on Thursday, in outer Delhi’s Mundka area. Seventeen other people, who were rescued from the building, have been admitted to a nearby private hospital. “Fire operator Amit Balayan […]

Bhubaneswar: It seems year 2020 rings in the bad days for the Casanovas on streets. Now, Roadside Romeos will pass comment or indulge in eve-teasing at their own risk. The Twin City Police Commissionerate will be serving such evil doers externment  or Tadipaar notice. A court summon will be served on to their parents also. […]

Puri: Police were caught off guard after five turban-clad Punjabi youths were spotted atop Mangu Mutt on Thursday. According to reports, the youths from Punjab had arrived in Puri after they came across some video message regarding the demolition of Mangu Mutt for the Shree Jagannath Heritage Corridor project. The incident created a flutter as […]

Bhubaneswar: Indian Railways is augmenting its resources to provide world class facilities to passengers by coming up with new initiatives time to time. Similarly, in a bid to improve response during disaster, Indian Railways is gradually replacing the existing locomotive hauled Accident Relief Medical Vans (ARMVs). As per reports, ARMVs are being replaced with Self […]

Jammu: Seven people were killed and 24 injured, some of them critically, when a bus skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Thursday, police said. The bus was on its way from Surankote to Jammu when the accident happened at Siot-Lambari in Rajouri district, […]

New Delhi: India has reached out to countries across the world on the issues of the new citizenship law and the proposed National Register of Citizens, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. “We did reach out to countries across the globe on Citizenship Amendment Act and the NRC,” MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said […]

Panaji: Four Goa Congress leaders resigned from the party on Thursday to protest against its stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act and three of them later joined the BJP, ahead of the saffron party’s rally here on Friday. Former Panaji Congress block committee president Prasad Amonkar, former block committee secretary Dinesh Kubal, former youth leader […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP General Secretary, Lekhashree Samantsinghar came down heavily again on the ruling BJD government in Odisha for not handing over the Smitarani death probe to the CBI. In a press conference today, Lekhashree reiterated her party’s demand for a CBI probe into the death of Haridaspur Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO), Smitarani Biswal. She […]

Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of Railways has reportedly decided to run special trains from and through East Coast Railway jurisdiction during this winter season. Experiencing the train traffic movements and rush in regular trains in peak time and also keeping in view popular demands from passengers, the Ministry has taken the decision. The decision has been […]

Lucknow: Senior UP Congress leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui has filed a police complaint against BJP’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra and Canada-based Pakistani author Tarek Fatah for allegedly maligning his image. Patra and Fatah shared a video on Twitter, targeting Siddiqui. In the video, a man is seen and heard saying, “First we are Muslims and then […]

Jajpur: Fly ash brick manufacturers here have threatened to stage mass protest in front of the main gate of the Jindal Stainless Limited’s (JSL) plant at Kalinga Nagar owing to lack of supply of fly ash. As per reports, when JSL was established in Kalinga Nagar of Jajpur District, it assured the brick manufacturers of […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index 2019-20 showing a dip in sex ratio at birth, the Odisha government has recently brought all 30 districts under the Modi Government’s flagship scheme Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP). As per the SDG- Index 2019-20 released recently, the sex ratio at birth in Odisha in […]

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed states, which have not enrolled with the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Yojana (PMKSY), saying that such petty politics has done great damage to the farming community. “I expect that in the new year, those states which are not associated with the Kisan Samman Yojana will at least […]

Bhubaneswar: The cables and wires dangling from electricity poles, lamp posts and advertisement boards installed ‘illegally’ on road medians in the capital city were removed during a special drive undertaken by the joint enforcement squad of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday. Reportedly, the civic body had issued a notice to all the wire operators […]

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) Young Scientist Laboratories to enable focused research in advanced technologies. Open for applicants below 35 years, these labs have been created to empower youth to achieve self-reliance in advanced niche technologies for the country, the DRDO said. “This step lays down […]