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 […]
Washington: The Biden administration has announced the re-establishment of the Homeland Security Dialogue with India that was discontinued by the previous Trump dispensation. This comes a day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Monday and expressed his desire to further strengthen the partnership between […]
Bhadrak: Three cow vigilantes were seriously injured in a fight with the cattle smugglers at National Highway No 16 near Ranital in the district on Wednesday. The injured have been admitted to the Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital in critical conditions. According to reports, a team of cow vigilantes under the banner of Go Surakhya Samiti […]
Jagatsinghpur: The Vigilance sleuths have arrested a sub-inspector of Jagatsinghpur Sadar Police Station on bribery charges. According to reports, the vigilance team caught Biswajit Gadnayak red-handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from Pritam Mohanty. Biswajit had demanded bribe from Pritam for a mutual settlement of a case. However, Pritam informed the […]
Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 single-day spike in Odisha continued to breach 100 mark for the fifth time in last 6 days when 170 people tested positive for the virus on Wednesday. Importantly, Nuapada, which had reported 4 positive cases on Tuesday, witnessed the maximum surge with 27 people testing positive in the last 24 hours. However, the […]
New Delhi: Chief Justice S.A. Bobde has recommended to the Centre to appoint Justice N.V. Ramana as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Bobde will retire on April 23. Justice Ramana was appointed to the Supreme Court on February 17, 2014. Justice Ramana will take over as the Chief Justice on […]
Bhubaneswar: The body of a youth was recovered from a hotel room under mysterious circumstances in Sailashree Vihar area of Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. As per reports, the police broke open the room of the hotel and found the body of the youth. The deceased, identified as Abhishek Kumar Nayak, hailed from Urali area under Sadar […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Pratap Sarangi has demanded allocation of special funds from the Centre for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Bhubaneswar in order to augment the infrastructure and facilities at the super specialty hospital in the State capital. Sarangi, who represents the Balasore Parliamentary constituency, called on Health Minister Harsh Vardhan […]
New Delhi: The Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) Delhi incubated startup, Geliose Mobility, has launched an electric scooter ‘HOPE’. The running cost of this scooter is only 20 paise per kilometre. ‘HOPE’ is a cost-effective scooter for delivery and local commuting. It gives a top speed of 25 km. Along with this, it also falls […]
New Delhi: As the assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry inch closer, Twitter on Wednesday said it is implementing the significant product, policy, and enforcement updates to keep the service safe from attempts to manipulate the platform. While a global cross-functional team with local, cultural, and language expertise will run […]
New Delhi: Consumers can heave a sign of relief as oil marketing companies (OMCs) have finally relented and reduced the retail price of petrol and diesel after keeping them steady for past 24 days. This is first reduction in petrol and diesel prices in 2021. Petrol price fell by 18 paise per litre and diesel […]
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