National News Updates

Bhubaneswar: It will be like a dream come true for as many as 44 underprivileged children from across the State when they get an opportunity to take a joyride aboard a special flight from Bhubaneswar on January 22. Air India’s subsidiary, Alliance Air will welcome aboard the children mostly hailing from urban poor localities of […]

Patna: More than five crore people came out of their homes in Bihar on Sunday and formed an unbroken “maanav shrinkhla” (human chain), claimed to be over 18,000 kilometres long, responding to the call of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to support his government’s efforts towards environment conservation and eradication of social evils. The human chain […]

New Delhi: The BJP is set to get its new national president in place of Amit Shah on Monday, with its working president J P Nadda expected to be elected to the post unopposed. Top party leaders, including those from states, are likely to arrive at the BJP headquarters to file nominations in support of […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with students, teachers and parents on Monday and share “valuable tips” with them to ensure they take the upcoming board and entrance exams in a relaxed manner. The third edition of Pariksha Pe Charcha is being organised at Talkatora Indoor Stadium in Delhi. A total of 2,000 […]

Balasore: Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel and Sahadevkhunta Police in Balasore district on Sunday recovered the body of a woman from railway tracks near Arad Bazar. The deceased, identified as Swarupa Mohanty, hailed from Singla village. While her husband works as a marine engineer in Mumbai, she was staying in the village with her 6-year-old […]

Abuja: Nineteen Indians, kidnapped by pirates from a commercial vessel from the high seas off the western coast of Africa last month, have been released while one died in their captivity, according to the Indian mission here. Twenty Indian crew members were kidnapped from the vessel MT Duke in the high seas off the western […]

Cuttack: In the wake of rising Covid-19 cases, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Tuesday imposed restrictions on the entry of devotees in all religious institutions under its jurisdiction. As…

Rourkela: In order to strengthen emergency response system and curb rising crimes, as many as 25 Police Control Room (PCR) vans were rolled out in Rourkela police district on Sunday. Director General of Police (DGP) Abhay flagged off the PCR vans and an all new modern integrated district police control room at Udit Nagar ground […]

Phulbani: Several Class 10 students of Sonpur High School under Daringbadi block of Kandhamal district threatened to commit suicide after they were allegedly barred from filling up forms for the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination 2020. As per reports, there are 25 Class-X students in the school of which only 11 students have been […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday highlighted the need of an inclusive platform that not only celebrates sports innovation and entrepreneurship but also involves sportspersons, sports startups, high-performance centres and students in a significant way. “It will encourage the participants from the sports fraternity to meet, exchange knowledge, and learn from one another,” said […]

Shirdi: Residents of Shirdi in Maharashtra will call off from Sunday midnight the day-long bandh, observed in the temple town amid a row over the birthplace of 19th century saint Saibaba. Leaders representing the Shirdi residents said that the decision to call off the shutdown was taken at a ‘gram sabha’ on Sunday evening in […]

Bhubaneswar: Soon after taking command of the State unit of BJP, senior leader of the party Samir Mohanty said his focus is to pave the way for the saffron party to serve 4.5 crore people of Odisha and make the party’s image clean by freeing it from the BJD-BJP ‘Foes Outside Friends Inside’ rhetoric. Mohanty […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to tighten traffic regulations across the State, the Odisha government introduced ‘e-check gate’ system during the concluding ceremony of 31st Road Safety Week today. The intelligent traffic system was introduced as a pilot project between Rameswar in Khurda to Chandikhol in Jajpur to control highway traffic issues. With the strict on-road […]

Bhubaneswar: The role of PCR vans meant to provide safety to people in several major cities of the State have now come under intense scrutiny of public especially after the recent brutal attack on a Sikh man in the capital city. While the services had earlier received accolades for remarkable success in controlling crimes in […]

Bhadrak: Struggle and dependency is mostly what we think of when the word “beggar” is mentioned but the story of a divyang, Kartik Nath, a resident of Ward no 30 of Bhadrak who lives by begging, is setting example for many. Amid the crackdown on power defaulters by Central Electricity Supply Utility of Orissa Limited […]