News from Odisha

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 […]

New Delhi: To mark the 30th anniversary of the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra held a special screening of his upcoming movie “Shikara: The Untold Story Of Kashmiri Pandits” for Kashmiri Pandits on Sunday here. The special screening of about 30 minutes was attended by over 200 Kashmiri Pandits,including […]

Islamabad/Lahore: Succumbing to Islamists’ demands, Pakistan’s Imran Khan-led government on Tuesday decided to introduce a resolution in Parliament to expel the French ambassador and quash all criminal cases filed against…

Bengaluru: Team India captain Virat Kohli has said that using K.L. Rahul as a wicketkeeper-batsman adds to the balance of the team, thus hinting that the Karnataka batsman may be used in the same role in the five-match T20I series in New Zealand. Rahul was forced to keep wickets in the just concluded three-ODI series […]

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in the capital city of Odisha has added another feather to its hat, with the take-off of Bhubaneswar-Surat-Bhubaneswar direct flight service this morning. As per reports, the flight operations set up by the PSU Carrier Air India to connect Bhubaneswar with the textile hub of Gujarat, Surat will […]

Mumbai: Market benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened at record peaks on Monday tracking strong quarterly results by index heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank. After rallying over 300 points to hit a fresh lifetime high of 42,273.87, the 30-share BSE index pared gains to trade 31.32 points or 0.07 per cent higher at 41,976.69. Similarly, […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: The attack on a Sikh businessman in the city a few days ago in the presence of policemen manning a PCR van that had arrived following his SOS call has not done any good to the image of the men in khaki. In fact, the incident, which has since acquired a […]

Bhubaneswar: Thick patches of fog will shroud coastal and interior districts of Odisha on January 22 and 23, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) regional centre in Bhubaneswar informed on Monday. “There are chances of dense fog in some coastal and interior pockets like Deogarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Khurda, Cuttack, Puri, Nayagarh, Sundergarh, Kandhamal, […]