News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar/ New Delhi: Yash Mishra from Odisha received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar from President Ram Nath Kovind at a special function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi today. As many as 22 children including 10 girls and 12 boys received the awards on the occasion. A resident of Sailashree Vihar in Bhubaneswar, […]

New Delhi: Lawyer Aparna Bhat has filed a contempt petition in Delhi High Court against makers of the film ‘Chhapaak’ and actress Deepika Padukone for not giving due credit to her in spite of the court order. The plea has sought initiation of contempt proceedings against the makers of the film for non-compliance of the […]

London: Researchers have developed a predictive tool that can recognise adolescents who are at high or low risk of depression in young adulthood. Published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the study also evaluated the performance of the tool in samples of adolescents from New Zealand and the UK, demonstrating […]

New Delhi: Hours after Android users reported glitches while logging into Twitter after it crashed on Wednesday, the microblogging site rolled out an update on the Google Play Store. Earlier in the day, the firm had acknowledged the issue and said it had started fixing it. “We are investigating a problem with the latest version of […]

Melbourne: India’s Divij Sharan on Wednesday advanced to the second round of men’s doubles event at the Australian Open after beating Pablo Carreno Busta and Joao Sousa along with his New Zealand partner Artem Sitak. Divij and Sitak needed an hour and 28 minutes to win the first-round match 6-4, 7-5 against their lower-ranked opponents. The […]

New Delhi: India Ratings and Research on Wednesday said that it expects gross domestic product (GDP) to grow at 5.5 per cent in FY21. The agency’s forecast is marginal higher than the GDP growth of 5 per cent estimated by National Statistical Office for FY20. The current slowdown in economic activity, according to the agency is […]

Cosmetics are an integral part of every woman’s lifestyle. From foundation, lipstick, nail polish to facial kits, hair products and more, there are a lot of products that are used by almost everyone. Off late, the awareness about using natural and organic products has increased as the chemical-stuffed things are toxic and cause harmful effects […]

Bengaluru: Ahead of the launch of India’s maiden human spaceflight venture ‘Gaganyaan’ in December 2021, the Indian Space Research Organisation will undertake two unmanned missions in December 2020 and June 2021, ISRO chairman K Sivan said on Wednesday. Addressing the inaugural session of a symposium on “Human Spaceflight and Exploration – Present Challenges and Future Trends,” […]

Rourkela: Five women engaged in road construction works lost their lives while as many as eight others sustained critical injuries in a tragic road mishap at Ramabahal chhak in Rajgangpur area of Sundergarh district on Wednesday. According to reports, a speeding car jumped the divider and hit the women workers before ramming into an SUV […]

New Delhi: It’s the year of the World T20 and it isn’t just Virat Kohli and the Indian boys who are looking to take every opportunity to prepare for the showpiece event slated to be held later in the year. Run-machine Steve Smith is already excited at the prospect of playing another ICC event at […]

Bhubaneswar:  With the clocking in of new year 2020, all room Air Conditioners (ACs) covered under the ambit of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) star-labelling programme will be mandatorily having a 24 degree C default temperature. The Union Power Ministry has already issued a notification in this regard. The moot point then is does this […]

Bhubaneswar: Budget carrier IndiGo will commence operations from Bhubaneswar to Prayagraj with the launch of direct flight services from 1st July, 2020, informed Odisha Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy following a high-level meeting of Airlines CEO and Odisha government on enhancing air connectivity for the State here today. The meeting chaired by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik […]

The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) had released a recruitment notification seeking applications for Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) positions. While the applications for the positions had begun earlier, the last date to apply for the same is tomorrow- January 23, 2020. “DRDO invites online applications from the desirous and eligible candidates to fill up the […]

New Delhi: Of the total new cases reported in the last 24 hours, 78 per cent were reported from 10 states while 62 per cent of the active cases are…

Mumbai: Varun Dhawan’s video of shaking a leg with TikTok star Yuvraj Singh Parihar, popularly known as Baba Jackson, on the neats of the “Muqabala” song, has gone viral. The video begins with Yuvraj showing a few signature steps of late pop singer Michael Jackson. He also does the popular hook step of “Muqabala” with […]