National News Updates

Cuttack: The gloomy times of the Coronavirus pandemic seem to be coming back to haunt Odisha after a lull. The Cuttack district administration has declared Nuasahi village under Niali block as a containment zone. As per an official order, the containment order came into effect Saturday morning at 6 AM and will remain in force […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The centre on Wednesday informed that it will soon allow vaccination sessions to be organised at workplaces (public and private offices) to ramp up the Covid-19 vaccination drive…

Bhubaneswar: Vaccination against Covid-19 could not be carried out at little less than 400 centres in different districts across Odisha due to shortage of vaccines, informed director of health and…

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated a re-imagining of how access to justice, a key pillar in all democracies, can be ensured in the backdrop of an unprecedented health crisis. The virus pushed a serious Supreme Court into revolutionary changes to meet the persistent demands of justice. The Supreme Court departed from its history and […]

Bhubaneswar: True to his penchant for delivering one-liners to the party rank and file on every foundation day since 2015, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik’s 2020 one-liner is ‘Fight for Women Reservation (or say empowerment)’. With the urban polls round the corner, he exhorted the BJD cadres to make this fight of BJD […]

London: As the world grapples with the pandemic amid the origin of newer and potentially lethal strains, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has said that the deadly virus is going to stay with us for the next decade at least. In a virtual press conference this week, Sahin spoke about the potential virus deadline when asked […]

Dhenkanal: The new Farm Laws envisage increase in the income of farmers and is meant to make them self reliant under Prime Minister Modi’s flagship programme ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’, said Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday. Addressing a mega ‘Krushak Samabesh’ rally in Dhenkanal, the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas said the Prime […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Forensic Laboratory, Bhubaneswar could not determine the group of the semen found on the frock of the five-year-old girl in Nayagarh district who was allegedly raped and murdered. The Forensic Lab authorities, who conducted the chemical examination of the frock and a jute sack, in a letter to the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday talked about the need of women’s empowerment in the political realm of the country and State, and, for which he betted big on the contentious topic of reservation for women in State Assemblies and Parliament, a reality check of the 2019 Odisha assembly polls, […]

Bhubaneswar: A day before the reopening of the famous Lingaraj Temple, the precincts of famous 11th century shrine here has been sanitised by the Fire Services personnel on Saturday. The ancient temple which has remained shut for devotees for last nine months due to Covid-19 pandemic will reopen from tomorrow in a phased manner. As […]

Cuttack: As a first of the visionary reformations to change the face of the cricket in the State, the Odisha Cricket Association will kick off the much-awaited Odisha Cricket League-T20 at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack from tomorrow (December 27). The OCA is hosting the tournament by forming teams without any franchise. A total of […]

Cuttack: Intensifying its crackdown on gangster brothers- Sushil and Sushant Dhalasamanta, the Commissionerate Police on Saturday recovered cash worth Rs 16.5 lakh from their residence in CDA Sector 6. Besides, three 9mm pistols, 175 rounds of bullets were seized from the secret chambers of the gangster siblings in the last two days. After taking Sushil […]

New Delhi: It is going to get very cold in north India, and drinking alcohol at home or year-end parties won’t be a good idea, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). In its latest impact-based advisory, the IMD said “severe” cold wave is expected over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and northern Rajasthan from […]

New Delhi: The protesting farmer unions on Saturday decided to resume their dialogue with the Centre, and proposed December 29 for the next round of talks to end the deadlock over the three newly enacted farm laws, but made it clear that the modalities for its repeal and guarantee for MSP should be part of […]

Jajpur: Even as the district police are yet to make any headway in the missing case of ‘Pihu’, the two-year-old girl of Madhusudanpur, a similar incident reported from the same district has put the scanner on police administration again. A four-year-old boy named ‘Chintu’ went missing for last three days while he was playing near […]