National News Updates

New Delhi: BJP MP Ashwani Vaishnav on Monday raised the issue of racial discrimination in the UK — the latest being about an incident at the Oxford University. The issue concerns Rashmi Samant, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka’s Udupi. She contested the elections for Presidency of Student Union and won. However, following some of her […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health Minister Naba Das on Monday informed the State Assembly that Rs 344.55 crore has been released to privately operated COVID hospitals in the State for treatment of patients. Replying to a question posed by BJP MLA from Jashipur, Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia in the Assembly, Das said a total of 33 private […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader and MP Aparajita Sarangi today met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and apprised her about the problems being faced by the Odisha EPF pensioners. Informing about her meeting with the Finance Minister, Sarangi said that she ‘discussed about the grievances of Odisha EPF Pensioners Association, Bank Retirees Federation and Ex-servicemen who […]

https://youtu.be/Ibv7JJgsXNg Amid rising cases of COVID-19, a week-long lockdown began in Nagpur on Monday. Strict curbs came into force in Nagpur to contain the rise in COVID-19 cases.

Ollywood actress Bidusmita Mantri made some shocking revelations into the brutal of murder Ollywood music director Sumanta Mohanty in 2008. Her revelations came after Bikramaditya Jena, the last and fifth accused in the murder case was arrested by the Commissionerate Police on Sunday

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2019 moved by Agriculture & Food Processing Minister Narendra Singh Tomars. The Bill declares two food technology institutes at Kundli in Haryana and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu as national institutes. Talking about the food processing industry in […]

Bhubaneswar: A youth in Bhubaneswar was allegedly duped of Rs 1 lakh by a cyber fraudster while trying to sell his cow online. The complainant, Debasis Sahu had put up an advertisement on the online marketplace app when the scamster posing as a potential buyer duped him. As per reports, Sahu had put up the […]

New Delhi: Thirteen years after the Batla House encounter, a Delhi Court on Monday sentenced Ariz Khan, who was convicted of the murder of inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and other offences, to death. Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav called it a ‘rarest of rare case’ while awarding the death penalty. The prosecution had sought death […]

Puri: At least three buses were gutted in a massive fire that broke out at Puri bus stand here on Monday. As per reports, the bus were parked at the bus terminal when the fire broke out. Though the cause of fire is yet to be ascertained, short circuit is suspected to be the reason […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha government inaugurated the birth of Biju Yuva Vahini in a grand way just 3-years ago, the home-truth to the fore now is the pet child of the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government has become the victim of U-5 child mortality in the State recently. The Youth and Sports Services Minister Tusharkanti […]

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Railways on Monday issued a clarification on media reports regarding the cancellation of special train services in the country. As per an official release, the Railways said, “Some news report in social media are being circulated that Railways is going to cancel its trains which are currently operational from 31st March,2021.” However, […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha claims of drawing actual private investment to the tune Rs 47,434 crore in 2019, the blooper for the State is the amount spent under CSR in the same period had been the lowest ever since inception. As per the data available with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the amount spent under […]

Balasore: Amid the allegations of massive corruption in the State during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling-BJD MLA from Remuna Sudhanshu Sekhar Parida has been accused of swindling subsidy amount meant for the purchase of farm equipment. A complaint has been filed before Odisha Lokayukta against the Remuna MLA. The complainant Tanmaya Mohanty alleged that Nigamananda […]

Bhubaneswar: Make in Odisha programme seems to have failed to achieve its desired objective as the flag ship scheme couldn’t generate the interest among investors that it should have, believe experts. Recently, Industries Minister Dibya Sankar Mishra informed Odisha Assembly that a total of 84 proposals or investment intentions were received during the Make in […]

New Delhi: The government fell short by 7 per cent in achieving coverage of full immunisation of children between April 2019 and March 2020. The information was shared in the Parliament by Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, on Monday. “The full immunisation coverage stands at 92.8 per cent as […]