News from Odisha

New Delhi: Mohammed Shami has drawn flack after he posted an image of his daughter celebrating Saraswati Puja on his Instagram account. Shami, who is in New Zealand with the rest of the Indian team, posted the picture with a caption that said: “Looking so sweet beta love you so much. god bless you beta […]

Puri: Tension erupted in the pilgrim city on Tuesday after two unidentified bike-borne miscreants allegedly opened fire at a student of Gopabandhu Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya here during a loot bid. Injured Janmajeya Mantry, a second year student of the college, was rushed to hospital for treatment. While Mantry was heading towards Heragohari Street in the evening, […]

Beijing: The death toll in China’s coronavirus outbreak rose to 490 on Tuesday while the total number of confirmed cases mounted to 24324, Chinese health officials announced on Wednesday. By the end of Tuesday, a total of 490 people had died after being infected and 24,324 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection had been reported […]

Sambalpur: Renewing their demand for the establishment of a permanent Orissa High Court bench in western Odisha, the lawyers’ associations are observing a dawn-to-dusk bandh today. The associations are also protesting the move of the State Bar Council, which recently sought disciplinary action against the protesting lawyers. Members of political parties like the BJD and the […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Ridding Chilika, Asia’s largest brackish water lake, of illegal prawn gherries ( enclosures) is a Herculean task. The gherries re-appear within days of demolition by the administrations of Puri, Ganjam and Khurda, the districts straddled by the huge water body which was declared a Ramsar site long ago. The Puri district […]

San Francisco: In yet another bid to take action against the circulation of synthetic and manipulating media on its platform, Twitter on Wednesday announced a new policy where it would begin labelling such content from March 5. Twitter said the people may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm. […]

In the upcoming episode of “Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai,” the focus will be more on the boys Luv and Kush and their negative impact on Kairav. As the fans of the show are aware that Luv and Kush have the video of Abhishek in which he is molesting Trisha. Abhishek wants that video badly […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced in the Lok Sabha that the government has given approval to a proposal for “Shri Ramjanmabhoomi Tirtha Kshetra” trust to take care of the construction of grand Ram temple in Ayodhya and other related issues. Modi said that the historic decision was taken on Wednesday morning […]

India Post recently released a few recruitment notifications giving an opportunity to government job aspirants to become a part of the premier organisation. Here, we have come up with the vacancies, application submissions of which are going to end this month. The Department of Posts released a recruitment advertisement on January 4 inviting applications for […]

Sambalpur: While the State Government is yet to take up the land acquisition process for the expansion of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) in Burla, several acres of government land in the area have been allegedly encroached by land mafia. It may be noted that Odisha Health and Family Welfare […]

New Delhi: Public Cloud deployments in India have the potential to contribute approximately $100 billion in GDP cumulatively from 2019 to 2023, a new Google-Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report said on Wednesday. When annualised, this is equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the GDP, 15 per cent of the GDP impact of the IT industry […]

Auckland: Striker Navneet Kaur scored a brace to guide the Indian women’s hockey team to a convincing 3-0 win over New Zealand in the last game of its five-match tour here on Wednesday. Navneet found the net in the 45th and 58th minutes, while Sharmila scored a field goal in the 54th minute as India […]

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said there is no proposal to link social media profiles of users with their Aadhaar numbers and asserted that steps are being taken to curb spreading of fake news and pornography through social media platforms. Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also said that pornography, particularly child […]

Amitabh Bachchan is very proud of both his children Shweta and Abhishek Bachchan and appreciates them on social media. From family functions to throwback, nostalgic moments, the photographs and pictures are all about his bonding with his children. Recently, the Bachchan’s were a part of the Armaan Jain and Anissa Malhotra wedding function which was […]

New Delhi: Amid the chaos over the Citizenship Amendment Act in the country, official statistics revealed that in the last one decade more than 21,000 foreigners obtained Indian citizenship. These people became Indians under the government of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as the current Modi government. The details were provided by the […]