National News Updates

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday rejected reports that Gurdwara Nanakana Sahib near Lahore was desecrated by certain groups. Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, also known as the Gurdwara Janam Asthan, is the site where the first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak, was born. It is regarded as one of the holiest Sikh sites. Foreign Office in a […]

Bhubaneswar: For the first time, a 10-member State Lawn Ball team from Odisha will participate in the Khelo India Youth Games to be played at Guwahati from January 10 to 22. The Odisha State Bowling Association (OSBA) on Friday announced that five women and five men players from the State will be a part of […]

New Delhi: A terrorist belonging to a Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba was arrested from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning. The 23-year-old terrorist Nissar Ahmad Dar, who hails from Wahab Parray Mohalla at Hajin, was active for the last few years and is a categorised terrorist in security establishment’s data base. He […]

New Delhi/Islamabad: The attack on the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara, the birthplace of Guru Nanak, in Pakistan has triggered protests among Sikhs in India. While several Sikh groups were to protest outside Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi on Saturday to condemn the attack, Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

Puri: In what seems to be a malafide motive to defame a police official, the woman who had accused Balanga Police station Assistant Sub-Inspector Chittaranjan Das of raping her, decided to stay mute when her statement was recorded before the Magistrate under Section 164. Speaking to media persons, Puri SP Umashankar Dash on Saturday informed […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as six residents from Odisha were killed while another person suffered injuries in a road accident near Manjusa in Andhra Pradesh today. As per reports, all the victims are from Bhubaneswar and have been identified as Trilochan Jena, Banita Jena, Ritu Jena, Adarsh Jena, Pratap Jena and another person whose identity is […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Forest officials recently arrested a man selling horseshoe crabs, an endangered marine species in Mayurbhanj district. A native of West Bengal he was caught with six live specimens of the species whose popular name is a misnomer in that they are not true crabs which are crustaceans. But these blue blooded […]

New Delhi: A day after hundreds of people attacked the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara, the birthplace of Guru Nanak, in Pakistan, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi condemned it, saying bigotry is dangerous and love is its only known antidote. Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and wrote, “The attack on Nankana Sahab is reprehensible and must be […]

Bhubaneswar: In what could bring major relief for the residents of Daruthenga village on the outskirts of the capital city, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities on Saturday informed that the disposal of waste at the contentious Bhuasuni dumping yard will be stopped once all the micro-composting (MCC) systems installed in the Smart City become operational. […]

Bhubaneswar:  Only days after pocketing the Krishi Karman Award in Agriculture, big revelation from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2018 report on Accidents and Suicides in India is, Odisha draws a neat big ‘zero’ in farmer suicides in 2018. As per NCRB report, Odisha is among the few bigger states, including Mamata-led West Bengal […]

By Srinibash Samal Samba Dashami is a unique festival in Odisha. It is celebrated on the 10th day of the Shukla Paksha of Pausha Masa as per Odia calendar and this year it will be observed across Odisha on January 5, i.e. tomorrow. The festival which is mainly observed in the coastal districts of the […]

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday forecast return of cold wave in Odisha within the next two days as many places across the state experienced rainfall and thundershower since Friday. The minimum temperature is likely to fall gradually by 4 degrees Celsius to 6 degrees Celsius across various districts in Odisha and the […]

New Delhi: With the first half of the budget session expected to begin in the last week of January, the ministries have started asking officials to gear up for response to the possible questions from members of Parliament (MPs). “As Parliament session is expected to start in the last week of this month, an advisory […]

Bhubaneswar: True to the saying that politics is the art of looking trouble, ruling party spokesperson Lenin Mohanty discovers one in the Special Police Officer concept of Commissionerate Police. The BJD spokesperson finds the Women Empowerment for Gender Sensitive (WE GS) notion of police Commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi gender- biased. He went on to charge the […]

Jaipur: The sorry state of Kota’s J.K. Lon Hospital is reflected in a government-appointed panel’s report which shows that around 105 children died in a span of over a month due to cold shivering in the hospital as it lacked everything a normal hospital should have. The committee formed by the Rajasthan government to probe […]