National News Updates

Bhubaneswar:  In Prime Minister Modi’s LED revolution, it’s Odisha which has seemingly ‘led’ the country in LED revolution. The State topped the country in LED bulbs distribution. The State remained light years ahead of its big counterparts like UP, Bihar, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All) scheme, which was […]

Bolangir: Despite the fact that government has laws to punish people involved in evil practices, interior areas of the State continue to remain in the grip of superstition. A 12-year-old girl, who went missing from Sindhekela of Bolangir district last month on 24th, was allegedly sacrificed by her own brother. Such a shocking revelation was […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress today extended support to the all-India strike called by Central trade unions to be observed on January 8. Earlier, various Left parties and Central trade unions had extended their support to the strike against the anti-labour policies of the Narendra Modi-government. It is pertinent to mention here that the Left parties are […]

Cuttack: As part of its nationwide campaign to clear misconceptions about Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today organised a massive rally to create awareness among the people in Cuttack, Odisha. Participating in the mega awareness rally, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today hit out at the opposition, particularly the Congress and accused it […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has announced the Civil Services result 2018. Debasis Panda has topped the exam followed by Rituparna Mohapatra. “On the basis of the Personality Test of Odisha Civil Services Examination, 2018 held from December 12, 2019 to December 28, 2019, the Commission has provisionally selected 218 candidates for appointment to […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when decks are being cleared for the proposed merger of Central government’s Ayushman Bharat (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) scheme and State government’s Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY), the plan seems to have now hit fresh hurdles after Odisha set a few conditions for the merger. Odisha Health and Family Welfare […]

Bhubaneswar: Revealing his target to see India finish among the top 10 medal winners in 2028 Olympics, Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju today said that all the players participating in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics are best prepared. Rijiju, who was in Bhubaneswar today for the launch of Khelo India University Games 2020’s schedule, logo, […]

New Delhi: As the Jawaharlal Nehru University limps backs to normalcy after Sunday’s brutal violence, the Delhi Police on Monday started its probe and have registered four FIRs. Police said that an FIR was registered on January 4 on the complaint of the JNU administration regarding obstruction in the registration process. The students had to […]

Sundergarh: What comes to your mind when someone says library? For most of us it will be a huge hall with columns of books. But defying the conventional idea of a library, Sundergarh collector Nikhil Pawan Kalyan has opened a ‘Bahi Bagicha (book garden)’, a library set up in a garden on the premises of […]

Bhubaneswar: Activists of Left parties and members of students’ outfits hit the streets in the state capital on Monday to protest against the violence at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, which left at least 34 injured. With placards and banners — which read ‘stop hooliganism in JNU’ and ‘save democracy’ — the demonstrators took out rallies […]

Bengaluru: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will start a Farmers’ Innovation Fund (FIF), said Director General Trilochan Mohapatra at the first-ever Farmers’ Science Congress, a part of the ongoing 107th Indian Science Congres. “We will start in a small way to see how successful it is and then move in a big way. […]

New Delhi: Three employees of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) were abducted by unknown armed militants from a rig site in Assam on Wednesday, the company said. The…

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against 48 companies, three individuals and some unidentified officials of three public sector banks for transferring Rs 1,038 crore black money to Hong Kong in 2014-15, officials said on Monday. The individuals — identified as Mohammad Ibramsa Johny, Zinta Midhar and Nizamuddin — […]

Mumbai: People protesting against the JNU violence were evicted from Gateway of India in south Mumbai on Tuesday morning as roads were getting blocked and tourists and common people were facing problems, a police official said. Police had appealed to protesters to shift but they didn’t listen, so they were “relocated” to Azad Maidan near […]

Rourkela: A palpable tension prevailed in IDC area of Rourkela in Sundergarh district on Monday following the death of two labourers due to a gas leakage at a sponge iron factory. As per reports, the victims Ajay Samad and Pankaj Kerketta were taken ill when gas started to leak while they were cleaning gas furnace […]