News from Odisha

New Delhi: Looks like Facebook’s popularly owned online messaging app WhatsApp is currently experiencing issues in some regions around the world. #whatsappdown trended on twitter with 8,246 Tweets as a large number of reports from users stated that WhatsApp is currently down or not working. Many WhatsApp users taking to Twitter complained about facing an […]

Chennai: Mahendra Singh Dhoni “will be retained” by Chennai Super Kings in the 2021 IPL auctions irrespective of whether he plays for India again or not, asserted former BCCI president N Srinivasan. The lack of a BCCI central contract for the two-time former World Cup winning captain has sparked fresh rumours of his retirement in […]

Mumbai: “Bigg Boss 13” contestant Madhurima Tuli, who was asked to leave the reality show after brutally hitting co-contestant and former boyfriend Vishal Aditya Singh, says she was continuously provoked by Vishal and other housemates on petty issues which used to irritate her. “Bigg Boss” took strict action against the duo, putting them behind bars. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Indian men’s hockey team made a late comeback to level the scores before emerging 3-1 victorious in the shoot-out in their second FIH Pro League match against the Netherlands here on Sunday. India secured two points from the match (including the bonus point for winning the shoot-out), while the Netherlands got one point […]

Rourkela: In order to strengthen emergency response system and curb rising crimes, as many as 25 Police Control Room (PCR) vans were rolled out in Rourkela police district on Sunday. Director General of Police (DGP) Abhay flagged off the PCR vans and an all new modern integrated district police control room at Udit Nagar ground […]

The Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE), New Delhi has released the admit card for Class 10 board examinations on its official website. The admit card can be downloaded by schools from the official website cbse.nic.in. Earlier, the examination schedule for Class 10 was released by CBSE on January 17, 2020. As per the schedule, CBSE […]

Phulbani: Several Class 10 students of Sonpur High School under Daringbadi block of Kandhamal district threatened to commit suicide after they were allegedly barred from filling up forms for the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination 2020. As per reports, there are 25 Class-X students in the school of which only 11 students have been […]

The Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE), New Delhi has released the admit card for Class 12 board examinations on its official website cbse.nic.in. Schools need to download the admit card from the official website after using their affiliation number as the user ID and they should ensure that the admit cards are signed by the principal […]

Bengaluru: Senior India opener Shikhar Dhawan’s tryst with injuries continued as he did not come out to bat after hurting his left shoulder during the third ODI against Australia here on Sunday. After being taken for an X-ray, Dhawan was seen with his left arm in sling, putting under doubt his participation in the New […]

Bengaluru: A century from Rohit Sharma and a masterful 89 from captain Virat Kohli took them to a 7-wicket win over Australia in the third and final ODI between the two sides that was played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday. Rohit scored 119 while Kohli was dismissed 11 runs away from his […]

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 […]