News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Trouble seems to be mounting for the BJD leader and Kendrapara MP Anubhav Mohanty as Congress today accused the Parliamentarian of submitting false affidavit during 2014 Rajya Sabha election. Mohanty is already in soup over alleged non-payment of poster bills. Addressing a press conference at party headquarters in Bhubaneswar, Congress leader Nishikant Mishra alleged […]

New Delhi/Beijing: India’s evacuation of its nationals who were stranded in China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of novel coronavirus epidemic, was completed on Sunday with around 650 people brought back in two phases. Official sources said as of now the evacuation process is “complete” even as six Indians down with fever and other flu-like symptoms could […]

New York: Adults living with HIV were more likely to feel higher levels of emotional and physical well-being if they attended religious services regularly, prayed daily and self-identified as religious or spiritual, according to a new study. By contrast, patients living with HIV who had the lowest levels of quality of life and more mental […]

Mount Maunganui: India registered a rare 5-0 whitewash against New Zealand after notching up a seven-run win in the fifth and final T20 International at Bay Oval here on Sunday. Electing to bat, India posted 163 for three, riding on Rohit Sharma’s 60 off 41 balls and a 33-ball 45 from K L Rahul. The […]

New Delhi: A day after Union Budget proposed to tweak the rule to prevent NRIs from evading tax in India, the Finance Ministry has clarified that bona fide workers in other countries including in the Middle East who are not liable to tax in these countries will not be affected by the new provision. A […]

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled in budget 2020-21 a plan to develop five archaeological sites of eminence as iconic sites with on-site museums. The big message it holds for Odisha is the State has to put more resources in excavation of its historical sites of archaeological eminence. In this regard, the State has […]

Malkangiri: After unrest over the killing of left-wing extremists and subsequent confrontation between pro-development groups and those supporting the Maoists, now fresh tension continues to brew up in the Swabhiman area of the district in the form of a poster war between the rebels and local residents. As per reports, a number of posters claiming […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the decision not to remove Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax in the Budget was because utility of this tax so far has not been tested due to poor market conditions and therefore government has not been able to assess the returns from it. She was […]

Hyderabad: AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday hinted at the possibility of a nation-wide ‘jail bharo andolan’ as part of the ongoing protests against the CAA, the NRC and the NPR. Addressing a meeting of women, the Hyderabad MP said the country’s jail will prove insufficient to keep the protestors. “We want to tell (Prime […]

Mumbai: Actress Dia Mirza says her “Thappad” co-star Taapsee Pannu is a fierce lioness. “It is my endeavour to be a part of human stories that reflect the truth and compel us to think and possibly even bring positive change. ‘Thappad’ is one such film, a very powerful one,” said Dia. Praising Taapsee, she said: […]

Bargarh: Amid resentment over shifting of Bargarh district headquarters hospital(DHH) to its new campus at Tukurla under Bhatli block, senior BJP leader and party MP from the constituency, Suresh Pujari on Sunday shot off a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while demanding him to convert the old DHH building into a City Hospital. Raking […]

Dar es Salaam: At least 20 worshippers were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at a church service at a stadium in Tanzania, police said on Sunday. A group of worshippers packed a stadium in Moshi, a town at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, on Saturday evening and the stampede occurred as they […]

Rourkela: Tension prevailed at Kuanrmunda in Sundergarh district on Sunday after some local villagers stormed into a nearby field where a privately owned Ferro-alloys company was reportedly setting up its plant. As per the reports, Sri Mahavir Ferro Alloys, a privately owned company was provided land by the government at Kuanrmunda near Rourkela to set […]

San Francisco: Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will now fight a family battle as Michael Sanchez, brother of his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, has filed a lawsuit against him, alleging that the world’s richest man defamed him by saying that Michael leaked intimate photos and texts to the National Enquirer. In January 2019, the National […]

Rourkela: Three employees of a toll plaza in Sundergarh district were arrested on Sunday for allegedly refusing to allow the State Labour minister Sushant Singh’s car to pass through the toll gate last night. According to sources, the incident took place at around 2 am on Saturday night when Singh was on his way to […]