National News Updates

New Delhi: Aadhaar will be required for getting benefits under a central government scheme for providing financial assistance to family members of victims of violence perpetrated by terrorists or Naxals, and communal riots. In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said an eligible beneficiary desirous of receiving the benefit under the ‘Central Scheme for Assistance […]

New Delhi: The Nirbhaya convicts will now be hanged to death at Delhi’s Tihar Jail at 6 a.m. on February 1. Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora on Friday issued fresh death warrants against the four convicts in the case after being informed by Tihar Jail authorities that the mercy plea of convict Mukesh has […]

New Delhi: A senior official of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi was summoned by the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday to lodge a strong protest and share serious concerns about the recent cases of abduction of minor girls belonging to the minority Hindu community of Pakistan. Sources in Islamabad said that two […]

New Delhi: Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday posted a note on the company’s e-commerce website Amazon India, saying “he falls in love with India every time he returns here”, a day after Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal snubbed him during a public event. “I fall in love with India every time […]

Cuttack: The district administration sprang into action after a report on illegal brick kilns mushrooming near the famous Brahmanabana shrine at Salepur in the district was telecast on OTV. As per the reports, the Revenue Inspector (RI) has issued notices to 14 brick kiln mafias after the Tehsildar ordered an investigation into the matter. If […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh Friday said Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik does not get the proper feedback on governance as he completely depends on an IAS officer and is not accessible to MLAs and MPs of his own party. He ridiculed Patnaik for his party BJDs support the BJP government at the Centre […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when unemployment in the country is at a 45-year high and highly educated youths are underemployed, vocational training seems indispensable. At least the Union Human Resource Development ministry seemed to have that in their mind when they had started a skill development programme under which all the states were directed to […]

Bhubaneswar: Tushima Mishra, wife of suspended IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyay who was arrested on charges of accepting bribe, opened up on the arrest of her husband on Friday. At a press conference, Mishra raised questions on Bijay Ketan’s midnight arrest and public prosecutor’s statement that granting her husband bail would send a wrong message. […]

Bolangir: Barely three days after Odisha government announced a new livelihood package to curb labour migration, 41 bonded labourers were rescued while they were being allegedly trafficked from Kantabanji area in Bolangir district. According to reports, Kantabanji police rescued the 41 labourers including 10 minors when they were being taken to Berhampur by a middleman […]

Bhubaneswar: Saurabh Soumyakant Das is the topper from Odisha in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main, the results of which were announced by the HRD Ministry’s National Testing Agency on Friday night. Das scored 99.99 percentile score in the exam. According to reports, nine candidates have topped the exam with 100 percentile score in the […]

Balasore: A bus carrying around 70 pilgrims from West Bengal met with an accident on Seragada-Khantapada Road in Balasore in the wee hours of Saturday, injuring around two dozen passengers including women and children. As per reports, the bus was en route to Puri from Hoogly when it dashed into a stationary truck from behind. […]

Bhubaneswar: IMD’s regional centre in Bhubaneswar today issued dense fog alert for 11 districts in Odisha for the next 24 hours. Duty officer Charan Behera informed that the dense fog alert has been issued for Sundergarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Khurda, Puri, Nayagarh, Bhadrak, Kalahandi, Kandhamal and Sonepur district. According to Behera, several parts of the […]

Khurda/Angul: At least two persons were killed while another sustained critical injuries in an elephant attack in Haja panchayat of Khurda district late last night. The deceased have been identified as Bansidhar Chhualsingh of Haja village and Sanatan Pradhan of Kalarajhara village in the district. Injured, Brajakishore Sahoo is currently undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar […]

Shirdi: Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, the administrative body of Shirdi Sai Baba’s Samadhi has called for an indefinite closure of the Shirdi from January 19, following Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray’s recent statement describing Pathri as the birthplace of Sai Baba. “We have announced to close Shirdi against rumours from January 19,” reported ANI quoting B […]

Puri: Bizarre it may sound, but an engineering graduate has been found begging on Badadanda, the Grand Road, in the pilgrim town of Puri. The identity of the man was revealed after he lodged an FIR, written in English, against a rickshaw-puller at Puri Town Police Station on Friday. In the FIR copy, he mentioned […]