National News Updates

New Delhi: In one of its biggest crackdown on illegal ticketing in the railways, the RPF has arrested a madrassa-educated, self-taught software developer from Jharkhand in a racket which has links to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Dubai with suspected involvement in terror financing, a senior official said on Tuesday. Ghulam Mustafa (28), who was arrested from […]

Bhubaneswar: While the Twin City Police Commissionerate claims to have filed a chargesheet against three accused in connection with the brutal attack on Parvinder Pal Singh in the capital city, the members of the Sikh community in Bhubaneswar today went to meet DGP Abhay to vent their grievances. However, as the DGP wasn’t present in […]

Bhubaneswar: BJP leader Roopa Ganguly reached Odisha on a two-day visit to participate in the party’s ongoing ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’ in Nabarangpur to create awareness on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Speaking about the CAA, the BJP leader slammed opposition parties for misleading people. ” CAA was passed as per the guidelines of the constitution, […]

Bhubaneswar:  In what could expose the network of human trafficking and prostitution which has its tentacles spread from Bangladesh to Odisha, the Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police Crime Branch on Tuesday managed to nab the mastermind Sk Ibrahim and his wife. Ibrahim and his wife, who is popularly called as Didi (Anjali) were […]

Bhadrak: It was really an emotionally charged spectacle when an elderly woman in Charampa of Bhadrak district broke down while stumbling upon her doctor, who had treated her four years back. A video, which purportedly captured the doctor-patient emotional bonding, has now gone viral on different social media platforms. In the video, the elderly woman […]

Bargarh: A cancer hospital will soon be established in Bargarh, announced Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during his one-day visit to the western Odisha district on Tuesday. Patnaik also laid foundation stone and inaugurated several welfare projects worth Rs 150 crore during his visit to Bargarh. The Chief Minister also inaugurated the new 300-bed capacity […]

New Delhi: Twenty two children – 10 girls and 12 boys – from 12 states have been selected for the ICCW National Bravery Awards 2019. One award has been given posthumously. Adithya K.,15, from Kerala will get the coveted Bharat Award for saving more than 40 lives after a bus they were travelling in caught […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Tuesday extended the screening of passengers coming in from China to four more airports — Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin — in a bid to thwart the threat of ‘novel coronavirus disease’ (nCoV). So far the screening has been underway in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata airports. The […]

Bhubaneswar: An official of the horticulture department was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of acting as a conduit for IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya who is in jail for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a private company, officials said. Police arrested Pitabas Pradhan who joined as a data entry operator […]

Berhampur: A 65-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant near a forest in Ganjam district on Tuesday. Alu Laccheya was working in a farm along with another man near Changudidei hill at Nimapalli village under Digapahandi forest range when the tusker reached the site and attacked him, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Berhampur, […]

Bhubaneswar: Since the day Odisha Cabinet passed a resolution to move Centre to conduct an enumeration of socially and educationally backward classes (SEBC) and other backward castes (OBC), the issue has heated up the State politics with the Opposition accusing the government of playing caste-based political gimmick to garner votes. As per reports, the Central […]

Bhubaneswar: With an aim to make an investigative assessment of the present state of affairs on the tiger and elephant corridors from Similipal Tiger Reserve of Mayurbhanj district to Satkosia Tiger Reserve of Angul district, an 11-day Corridor Walk covering a distance of about 400 kms ended today. Save Elephant Foundation Trust, an organisation working […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre and Hockey India to allow Hockey Odisha to participate in the upcoming senior national championships for men and women. While the men’s championship will be held in Jhansi from January 25, the women’s event will be held in Kollam from January 30, Hockey Odisha general […]

Cuttack: Even after a month since an elderly couple from Beleswar area of Cuttack was murdered, the Commissionerate Police is yet to get any clue in the case following which family of the victim has announced Rs 50,000 cash reward for information on the culprits. “My parents had no enmity with anyone so I am […]

Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of Odisha government’s announcement to make traffic rules stricter from March 1 in a bid to reduce the number of accidents, as many as eight people died today in separate road accidents across several districts of Odisha. In Sambalpur, four persons were killed while six others were injured after a […]