National News Updates

Kendrapara: As a gesture of love and gratitude for Bollywood actor, Sonu Sood, who helped around 170 girls stranded in Kerala return to Odisha, a social organisation launched a postcard drive today. As part of the drive, 11,000 postcards with ‘Thank You’ will be sent to Sonu Sood who has been tirelessly helping stranded migrants […]

New Delhi: After conducting the successful trial run of double-decker freight trains on the newly-built Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district in December last year, the Indian Railways on Thursday created a world record by commissioning the first high rise Over Head Equipment (OHE) and successfully running double stack containers in […]

Bhubaneswar: While the coronavirus-induced lockdown is unleashing miseries for thousands of migrant workers, for some it has come as an opportunity to dupe innocent people especially the migrants. Such an instance has come to fore where a conman tried to defraud an Odia migrant stranded in Coimbatore (now Koyampuththoor) using the name of Ollywood actor […]

New Delhi: Director of the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) has said there is no need for panic over the recent seismic activities in the Delhi-NCR region. Director B.K. Bansal said: “However, it is important to undertake preparedness and mitigation measures to reduce the earthquake risk.” Bansal was speaking at a meeting convened by the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Odisha with detection of 112 more cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and one death from 18 districts across the State, informed the State I & PR Department. With this, the total number of coronavirus cases in the State rose to 3498 on Friday. Of the fresh 112 Covid-19 […]

Bhubaneswar: Construction of an anicut (check dam) by the Chhattisgarh government on Ib River near Samdama in Sundergarh district has sparked concerns among the local people especially farmers who now worry that the project might throw their livelihood into uncertainty. The check dam project being commissioned at a cost of Rs 17 crore has 40 […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha witnessed a significant reduction in the number of road accidents and fatalities since the implementation of amended Motor Vehicles (MV) Act across the country from September 1, 2019, informed State transport Minister Padmanabha Behera. According to data given by Behera, the number of road accidents have gone down by 355 (a reduction of […]

New Delhi: Hearing a PIL on alleged non-payment of salary to doctors during the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court said on Friday that “it is a kind of war, and you do not keep soldiers unhappy during war.” A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.R. Shah said, “It is kind of […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Skill Development and Technical Education department on Friday announced to conduct the eighth semester examination of all engineering colleges across the State through online mode between the first and second week of July. Informing about decision, Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Premananda Nayak said those students who will not appear for online […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 120 persons recuperated from COVID-19 in Odisha, taking the total recoveries to 2474 on Friday. A highest of 30 persons recovered from district, followed by 19 from Khurda and 14 from Balasore district. 1 each from Deogarh, Kendrapara and Jharsuguda. The total recovered cases of #Odisha now stand at 2474. (2/2) […]

Patna/New Delhi: A man was killed and two others were injured on Friday after Nepal border police troops fired at them “deep inside Nepalese territory” adjoining Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, officials said. An Indian national, Laagan Yadav (45), has been taken into custody by the Nepal border police, they said. Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Director General […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after sealing several prominent shops, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials on Friday sealed the city’s major commercial complex – The Market Building at Unit-2, in a crackdown against COVID-19 norm violation. As per official sources, the decision to seal the market building was taken following a huge turnout of shoppers ahead of […]

Bhubaneswar/Bengaluru: With a quick dash to 100,000 downloads, Indian social app, Chingari is now being touted to be a promising challenger to the popular video-sharing app TikTok. Chingari, an audio and video sharing platform was developed in 2019 by Biswatma Nayak, who is from Cuttack district of Odisha and Siddharth Gautam, both of whom are […]

Bhubaneswar: Whopping Rs 1.25 crore was collected as fine by Odisha Police from people for not wearing mask which is being recommended as an effective defence against COVID-19 infection. While briefing Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik about the measures taken by the police administration during COVID-19 lockdown, Odisha Police DG Abhay informed that several people were […]

New Delhi: The Home Ministry wrote to different states and Union Territories on Friday to clarify its order on implementation of night curfew between 9 pm and 5 am and advised against restricting the movement of buses, trucks carrying goods, and other essential services. “I would like to clarify that the purpose of restricting the […]