National News Updates

Sambalpur: Police on Saturday raided a godown and seized 239 packets of detergent powder of a top brand from Nuapada area under Bareipali area of Sambalpur district. The raid was carried out after five packets of duplicate detergent powder were seized from a shop in Khetrajpur area. On the basis of the information from the […]

Bhubaneswar: The recent arrest of 32-year-old youth Himanshu Bhusan Nanda in Bhubaneswar is expected to unfold many vital details with regard to kidney sale and transplant fraud. The Commissionerate Police on Saturday took Nanda on a three-day remand to unravel the mystery behind so many kidney deals and trace persons involved in the scam. So […]

Malkangiri: A hardcore Maoist was shot dead during an exchange of fire with the security forces In Kutur forest area near Malkangiri border under Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Sunday. The top Maoist commander has been identified as Ranu. The Mao commander was functioning as the action team commander of the area committee. The top […]

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Saturday evening announced suspension of the COVID-19 vaccination drive in the state till Monday owing to technical glitches in the Co-Win app. The app has been created by the Centre for managing registration for the inoculation. A nationwide inoculation drive for coronavirus began on Saturday morning. “Not just in Maharashtra, […]

In a good news for the 50 lakh Central government employees and over 60 lakh pensioners, the Narendra Modi government is likely to unfreeze the Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) this month. If the government unfreezes the DA, the Central government employees will get it at the current 28 per cent rate of […]

Bhubaneswar: After a brief spell of warm weather, cold weather conditions have returned to sweep Odisha as minimum temperature dropped at many places in the interior parts of the State on Saturday. Similar conditions will prevail for the next 24 hours, said the Regional Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar. Minimum temperature will be below normal by […]

Koraput: Within 24 hours of the suspension of two Block Development Officers (BDO) in Odisha, one more BDO from the State has been sacked on charges of corruption. The State Revenue and Disaster Management Department has issued a letter regarding the dismissal of Dillip Kumar Pattnaik, BDO of Laxmipur in Koraput district. Accused of corruption, […]

Keonjhar: The Maa Tarini Temple at Ghatagaon in Keonjhar district will reopen its doors for devotees from tomorrow i.e. January 18 after a closure of more than 9 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. A series of guidelines have been issued by the Maa Tarini Thakurani Temple Trust Board to ensure devotees […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload climbed to 1,05,57,985 on Sunday with 15,144 fresh infections while recoveries surged to 1,01,96,885, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.58 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll increased to 1,52,274 with 181 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. India reports 15,144 […]

Nayagarh: In a new revelation pertaining to the alleged abduction, rape and murder of a five-year-old girl from Nayagarh, it has come to fore that the Orissa High Court had declined to accept the request of the State government to monitor the SIT probe into the case by a sitting HC judge. The disclosure was […]

Kolkata/Guwahati: Despite Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee complaining of ‘blatant’ misuse of Central forces, as many as 77.68 per cent of the voters turned out to exercise their franchise till 5…

Sambalpur: After detection of 30 odd SARS-CoV-2 positive cases from Dimirigunda Panchayat under Kuchinda block in the district, the local administration on Tuesday marked the panchayat as the Containment Zone…

Kendrapara: In a broad daylight heist, unidentified miscreants looted Rs 1 lakh from the agent of a private company at Baniamala in the district on Friday and the entire incident was caught on the CCTV camera. The victim has been identified as one Balabhadra Panda. According to reports, Panda had withdrawn the amount from a […]

Bhubaneswar: The annual headcount exercise of dolphins inhabiting in the backwaters of Chilika Lake began on Sunday. Official sources said, 18 teams comprising 109 officials from forest department, Chilika Development Authority (CDA), WWF, Motor Boat Association, representatives of several NGOs and students of Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT) have been engaged for the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off eight trains connecting major destinations in various states of the country with the Statue of Unity in Gurjarat’s Kevadiya, via video-conferencing. The eight trains will connect Kevadiya to Varanasi, Dadar, Ahmedabad, Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin, Rewa, Chennai and Pratapnagar. PM Shri @narendramodi flags off eight trains […]