News from Odisha

New Delhi: The medical community from India, Asia Pacific and the USA joined the speakers here in New Delhi on Sunday at a two-day conference and workshop over fundamental doctrines of anti-ageing. As many as 300 doctors, including world-renowned clinicians and researchers in the field of integrative medicine, participated in the conference to sensitise people […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday highlighted the need of an inclusive platform that not only celebrates sports innovation and entrepreneurship but also involves sportspersons, sports startups, high-performance centres and students in a significant way. “It will encourage the participants from the sports fraternity to meet, exchange knowledge, and learn from one another,” said […]

Shirdi: Residents of Shirdi in Maharashtra will call off from Sunday midnight the day-long bandh, observed in the temple town amid a row over the birthplace of 19th century saint Saibaba. Leaders representing the Shirdi residents said that the decision to call off the shutdown was taken at a ‘gram sabha’ on Sunday evening in […]

Bhubaneswar: Soon after taking command of the State unit of BJP, senior leader of the party Samir Mohanty said his focus is to pave the way for the saffron party to serve 4.5 crore people of Odisha and make the party’s image clean by freeing it from the BJD-BJP ‘Foes Outside Friends Inside’ rhetoric. Mohanty […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to tighten traffic regulations across the State, the Odisha government introduced ‘e-check gate’ system during the concluding ceremony of 31st Road Safety Week today. The intelligent traffic system was introduced as a pilot project between Rameswar in Khurda to Chandikhol in Jajpur to control highway traffic issues. With the strict on-road […]

Bhubaneswar: The role of PCR vans meant to provide safety to people in several major cities of the State have now come under intense scrutiny of public especially after the recent brutal attack on a Sikh man in the capital city. While the services had earlier received accolades for remarkable success in controlling crimes in […]

Bhadrak: Struggle and dependency is mostly what we think of when the word “beggar” is mentioned but the story of a divyang, Kartik Nath, a resident of Ward no 30 of Bhadrak who lives by begging, is setting example for many. Amid the crackdown on power defaulters by Central Electricity Supply Utility of Orissa Limited […]

Palakkad: Nearly 50 people were injured when a temporary gallery of a football ground here collapsed on Sunday just before a match was to start, police said. Indian football legends I M Vijayan and Bhaichung Bhutia, who were present in the stadium, are safe, they said. The fundraiser match was organised to help the family […]

New Delhi: The test fire of 3,500-kilometre range ballistic missile known as K-4 from a nuclear capable submarine was successful, sources in Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said on Sunday. The missile developed by DRDO would be equipped on indigenous Indian Navy Ship Arihant, which is nuclear-powered submarine. These missiles, once inducted, will be […]

Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): Ahead of a meeting convened by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday, residents of Shirdi town, famous for its grand Saibaba Temple, called off their indefinite shutdown late on Sunday. The call for an indefinite bandh was given earlier in the day following a row over the purported birthplace of its revered […]

Bhubaneswar: A youth working at controversial self-styled Godman Sura Baba alias Surendra Mishra’s Trahi Achyuta Ashram located at Jhiniti Sasan on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar is missing for last nine years. Ajit Senapati of Lachamakona village under Erasama Police limits of Jagatsinghpur district, who was working as an accountant in Trahi Achyuta Ashram and staying […]

Jakarta: An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, authorities said on Monday, adding that no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at 11.58 p.m. on Sunday with the epicentre 64 km southwest of Bolaang Mongondow Selatan district and a depth of 95 km under the sea bed, Xinhua […]

Bareilly: Four men have been booked for allegedly raping their friend’s wife in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly city. According to reports, the incident took place on Friday night in the city’s Sirouli area but the woman lodged the complaint on Sunday. In her complaint, the victim said that the four accused, who are her neighbours, came […]

Islamabad: Pakistan has urged the US to get it off the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which monitors global money laundering and terror financing, it was reported. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said at a news briefing here on Friday night that Pakistan hoped the US would back its efforts to […]

Puri: A former engineer who was found begging on Puri Badadanda and eventually hogged the headlines, returned to his family on Sunday. Girija Shankar Mishra, who by profession is an engineer and even worked in a multinational company, but resorted to begging, suddenly became a sensation after his identity and family background was revealed on […]