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Naba Kishore Das
Odisha Readies Road Map For Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Drive

Bhubaneswar: With the Central government expecting to roll out Covid-19 vaccine anytime soon, Odisha has come up with a slew of measures to ensure smooth implementation of the mass vaccination programme against Coronavirus. The Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das on Wednesday said that Odisha will follow the Central government’s guidelines to roll […]

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New COVID Strain: Karnataka Imposes Night Curfew, Many States Focus On Tracing Passengers Returning From UK

Bengaluru/New Delhi:  Karnataka decided to impose night curfew from Thrusday night till January 2 across the state in the wake of a new coronavirus strain discovered in the UK. With this, Karnataka is the second state after Maharashtra to announce a new set of restrictions amid global fears over the new strain of coronavirus discovered […]

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Odisha: Wild Bear Sneaks Into Village Temple, Watch Video

Bhawanipatna: A wild bear sneaked into  human habitation triggering panic among locals at Amapani near Dharmagarh here in Kalahandi district on Wednesday night. A video of the animal roaming around the Budharaja temple at Amapani is doing rounds on  social media. Locals who have sighted the animal said that it visited the temple on Wednesday […]

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IN PICS: Cold Wave Intensifies, Yellow Warning Issued For Several Odisha Districts

Bhubaneswar: As Odisha slowly moves towards the peak winter, cold wave conditions have intensified too with the mercury plummeting to below 10 degrees Celsius in the interior regions of the State. Light frost is expected at some areas of Phulbani district in next few days where night temperature has seen a significant drop over the […]

Maharashtra Govt
Vaze Opens Pandora's Box For Maha Govt, Accuses Deshmukh of Asking Him To Extort Money

Mumbai, April 7 (IANS) Spelling fresh trouble for the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) in Maharashtra, arrested Mumbai Police crime branch officer Sachin Vaze has opened up a Pandora’s Box…

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Odisha: Farmer Trampled To Death By Elephant, Close Shave For Son

Kamakhyanagar: A farmer was killed after being trampled by a wild elephant while his son had a close shave at Kandarasinga village under Mahaveer Road forest range here in Dhenkanal district on Thursday. The incident occurred when Niranjan Swain and his son was returning from his land on cycle after harvesting paddy. The wild tusker, […]

DA Case: Vigilance Raid On Two Odisha Government Officials
DA Case: Vigilance Raid On Two Odisha Government Officials

Berhampur/Sonepur: Continuing its tirade against the corrupt officials in the State, the Odisha Vigilance on Thursday raided the houses and offices two government officials- an assistant executive engineer engaged in Rayagada Works Division and a panchayat executive office (PEO) of Sonepur- in connection with accumulation of disproportionate assets. The officials have been identified as Uddhab […]

Rahul-Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi's March To Prez House Armed With 2Cr Signatures Against Farm Laws

New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi launched a demonstration on Thursday from Vijay Chowk to Rashtrapati Bhavan with party MPs to meet President Ram Nath Kovind and submit a memorandum containing two crore signatures against the farm laws enacted in September, despite police restrictions. Rahul Gandhi along with his sister and party General Secretary […]

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Odisha: HC Blow To Chit Fund Scam Convict Pradeep Sethy

Cuttack: The prime convict in the multi-crore Artha Tatwa chit fund scam, Pradeep Sethy, has to remain in jail for some more time as the Orissa High Court on Thursday rejected a writ petition filed by him claiming ‘double jeopardy’ for his release from jail. ‘Double jeopardy’ is a universally accepted principle that bars a […]

Covid-19 India Update
Odisha: Is The UK Returnee Carrying New Mutant COVID-19 Strain?

Bhubaneswar: The swab samples a 34-year-old man, who tested positive for COVID-19 following his return from the United Kingdom (UK) on December 18, has been sent to a laboratory in Pune for genome sequencing. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner, Prem Chandra Chaudhary on Thursday said that genome sequencing becomes imperative to ascertain if the […]

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Odisha: HC Allows Fraud Accused MLA Pradeep Panigrahi To Access Lawyer In Jail

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday allowed Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi to meet his lawyer in jail. Panigrahi has been lodged in a special cell at the Jharpada Jail following his arrest by the State Crime Branch on charges of forgery, fraud and criminal conspiracy, on December 3. The High Court’s interim order came […]

Nayagarh Minor Girl Murder Case: Orissa HC Directs SIT To File Charge-Sheet

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the sexual assault and murder of a 5-year-old girl at Jadupur village in Nayagarh district, to file the charge-sheet in the case at the earliest. The court observed that the probe agency should file the charge-sheet at the earliest as many […]

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India’s Biggest Hockey Stadium To Come Up In Rourkela City: CM Naveen Patnaik

Bhubaneswar: In what could redefine the sports landscape in Odisha, the country’s biggest hockey stadiums will come up in the city of Rourkela. Announcing this, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the new world class hockey stadium in Rourkela will have a sitting capacity for 20,000 spectators. “The stadium along with the allied […]

Assam Elections
BJP Will Form Govt In Assam: Party's National VP Baijayant Panda

New Delhi: A day after polling for the 126-member Assam Assembly ended on Tuesday, BJP’s National Vice President and state in-charge Baijayant Jay Panda asserted on Wednesday that the saffron…

SIT Chief Arun Bothra
Nayagarh Minor Girl Murder Case: No Bones Missing, Says SIT Chief Arun Bothra

Nayagarh: Amidst questions pouring in from all sides on the veracity of the SIT version in the ‘rape and murder’ of the five-year-old girl at Jadupur in Nayagarh district, senior IPS officer Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the case, today clarified on the missing-bones claims and the doubts raised […]

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