National News Updates

New Delhi: The government has been granted time till April 9 by Lok Sabha and July 9 by Rajya Sabha to frame rules under the citizenship law. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) was notified on December 12, 2019 and came into […]

Malkangiri: Amid reports of surge in Covid-19 cases in Odisha, the district administration of Malkangiri on Tuesday ordered seven-day mandatory home isolation for people coming to the district. “All persons, who are coming to this district from other states, have to undergo a compulsory home isolation for 7 days,” said district collector, Yeddula Vijay. Anganwadi […]

Bhubaneswar: If health department officials in Odisha are to be believed, it is the Maharashtra impact that is triggering a rise in the count of the new confirmed coronavirus cases in Odisha. Be it quarantine or local contact cases, the source of transmission is mostly from Maharashtra. “As per our analysis, the source state of […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday issued guidelines for effective control of COVID-19, which will be effective from April 1, 2021, and remain in force upto April 30, 2021. Keeping in view a fresh surge in COVID-19 cases, which is being witnessed in some parts of the country, the guidelines mandated […]

Bhubaneswar: How acute has been the rural unemployment in Odisha is evident from the epochal demand for unskilled jobs under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the current year of 2020-21. The State had witnessed a massive 72 per cent rise in demand for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme […]

London: The University of Oxford on Tuesday said a probe is underway and that it investigates thoroughly every complaint related to harassment or equality, following allegations of cyber bullying surrounding Rashmi Samant, the first Indian woman to be elected President of the Oxford Student Union (SU) who was forced to resign amidst controversy over some […]

Kadernar (Chhattisgarh): Five personnel of the Chhattisgarh Police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) were killed in an IED explosion triggered by Maoists in Narayanpur district on Tuesday, officials said. Five DRG personnel were critically injured and 10 suffered “curable” injuries in the powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast, which hit a bus in which 27 DRG […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday emphasised on awareness, enhanced surveillance and testing while reviewing Covid-19 situation in the State. Holding the review meeting with Collectors of all districts, superintendents of police (SPs) and other stakeholders via video conferencing, Patnaik asked the State police to give special attention for enforcing Covid appropriate behaviour […]

Election campaigns in Bengal are in full swing. BJP is trying hard to turn Bengal into Saffron. All BJP veterans including Prime Minister Narendra Modi are in an attacking mode. Since the last couple of months many heavy weights and well known faces of TMC like Suvendu Adhikari, Mukul Roy, Sisir Adhikari, Dinesh Trivedi, Rajiv […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday reduced the number of persons allowed to attend marriage functions to 200 from the earlier 500 while slashing funeral gatherings to 50. The organisers of these occasions will have to provide masks to guests not wearing the same. The order will come into effect from March 26, 2021, said […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday raised the limit for tax exemption on interest earned on provident fund contribution by employees to Rs 5 lakh per annum in specified cases as against Rs 2.5 lakh proposed in the Budget. However, the minister in her reply to discussion on Finance Bill 2021 in the […]

Bhadrak: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA from Chandbali Assembly constituency, Byomakesh Ray stoked a controversy by allegedly threatening a police officer over phone, an audio clip of which has gone viral. The audio clip containing the purported telephonic conversation of Ray with the assistant sub-inspector of Bansada Police Station, Gurucharan Behera, is now being widely […]

New Delhi: The Railways announced on Tuesday a slew of initiatives against smoking and carrying inflammable items, which were apparently the cause behind some of the recent fires on board trains. The national transporter has instructed zonal railways to initiate intensive awareness drive of seven days to educate all the stakeholders, including railway users and […]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to introduce MEMU train between Bhubaneswar-Keonjhar and Angul-Puri. While the service between Bhubaneswar-Keonjhar will commence on March 30, Angul-Puri MEMU train will start running from April 5. Besides, the ECoR has decided to extend Visakhapatnam-Jagadalpur-Visakhapatnam special train up to Kirandul from April 1, 2021. As per the […]

Sambalpur: Jumbo menace continued to haunt residents in several parts of Odisha as two labourers were trampled to death in their sleep by a wild elephant at Kundernisha village under Sadar forest range in the district on Tuesday night. The deceased have been identified as Jaylal Mirdha and Telenga Oram from Tangaropali village of Bargarh […]