National News Updates

Rayagada: Amidst the claims that the Odisha government is providing better and timely healthcare services, a cancer-stricken Ganesh Choudhury of Kampamaligam village in Rayagada district has been struggling to get medicines for his treatment. Ganesh, who is suffering from Bone Marrow Cancer, first approached Rayagada Hospital for the drugs but reportedly failed to get the […]

Bhubaneswar: The annual headcount exercise of dolphins inhabiting along brackish water bodies of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary and Chilika lake began on Sunday. Official sources said, 18 teams comprising 133 officials have been engaged for the enumeration of Irrawaddy dolphins at Chilika, Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon. The teams began the annual census at 6 […]

Sambalpur (Odisha): Two engineering students have drowned in the plunge pool of a waterfall in Odisha’s Sambalpur district, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred when the duo, part of a group of 45 students from the Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) Burla, visited popular tourist destination Debjharan for picnicking on Saturday, a […]

Rayagada: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) received appreciation after its alert personnel helped a businessman recover a bag containing Rs 4.5 lakh which the latter had forgotten inside a coach of Samata Express today. According to reports, SK Yajdani had reportedly left behind the bag in B-4 coach of the Express train which he had […]

Chennai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday dubbed the proposal of some states to not implement the Citizenship Amendment Act as ‘unconstitutional’ and said it was the responsibility of all states to ensure that the law passed in Parliament is executed. “A state assembly has passed a resolution against CAA. It is like making […]

Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday that when RSS workers say that this country belongs to Hindus, they imply that 130 crore people in the country are Hindus. “By saying that all are Hindus, we do not want to change anyone’s religion, language or caste… We do not […]

Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Tuesday declared one-week lockdown starting from April 22 to check the spread of coronavirus cases, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said. Jharkhand government announces lockdown from…

Berhampur: A total of five child marriages have been foiled across Ganjam district following swift action by the administration, officials said on Sunday. While three attempts to marry off three minor girls were thwarted in Hinjili block, two such attempts were foiled in Sanakhemundi and Bhanjanagara blocks on Saturday, they said. All the girls were […]

Chennai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) is a law to confer Indian citizenship to a person and not a law to cancel citizenship. Sitharaman said during the past six years 2,838 persons from Pakistan, 914 persons from Afghanistan and 172 persons from Bangladesh have been conferred Indian […]

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 […]