News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: A joint team of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) on Monday sealed as many as 10 Kalyan Mandaps, hotels and community centres in the capital city for allegedly violating various norms. Among the sealed mandaps, one was reportedly operating from the premises of Pandit Nilakantha College of Library and […]

New Delhi: Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar shared a hilarious behind-the-scenes video from the sets of ‘Sooryavanshi’ where he introduced Katrina Kaif as the new ambassador of Swachh Bharat mission. The Bollywood actor shared the clip on his Twitter handle with the caption, “Spotted: The newest #SwachhBharat brand ambassador on the sets of #Sooryavanshi.” In the […]

New Delhi: Former India international and member of BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), Madan Lal, on Monday called for 10-15 days rest between each series of the Indian team, asking the BCCI to plan better while scheduling India’s yearly calendar. “When BCCI schedules India’s yearly calendar, it must see to it that players have 10-15 […]

Washington: US senators are hearing closing arguments by House managers and President Donald Trump’s defence team on Monday as the impeachment trial is scheduled to end later this week. Congressman Jason Crow, a Democrat from Colorado, speaking on behalf of the House managers, called impeachment an “extraordinary remedy” and “a tool only to be used […]

New Delhi: A Group of Ministers (GoM) has been formed to look after the work related to the preparation, management, review and evaluation of the prevention of coronavirus in India on the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Foreign Minister S.S. Jaishankar, Minister of State […]

Bhubaneswar: Giving is the greatest act of grace. It soothes the benevolent soul to see others make the best use of the donations, just like Satya Sutar who has declared to donate Rs 1 lakh as scholarship to the toppers of annual Matric examination under the Board of Secondary Education each year. Satya Sutar, a […]

Geneva: World Health Organisation (WHO) spoke highly of China’s effective control measures to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak, and called on all countries to invest in preparedness, not panic to manage the epidemic. Addressing the 146th session of the WHO Executive Board meeting that kicked off here on Monday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said China […]

Mumbai: The Indian national selectors have named the squad for the two-Test series against New Zealand and Prithvi Shaw finds a place in the team which also has Ishant Sharma named in it, but subject to passing a fitness test. The pacer injured his ankle in a Ranji Trophy game for Delhi. With Rohit Sharma […]

Beijing: The death toll in China’s coronavirus rose sharply to 425 with 64 deaths on Monday alone while 3,235 new confirmed cases were reported, taking the number of those infected with the deadly disease to 20,438, Chinese health authorities said on Tuesday. The 64 people who died on Monday were all from the Hubei province, […]

Hong Kong: Hong Kong on Tuesday reported the first death due to the novel coronavirus, becoming the third country after China and Philippines to confirm fatalities from the fast-spreading virus. The 39-year-old victim, a Hong Kong resident with underlying illness, was confirmed on January 31 as the city’s 13th coronavirus case, and was admitted to […]

New Delhi: The JD Centre of Art, in partnership with Department of Tourism & Culture of the Odisha government, will organise the 13th International Film Festival on Art & Artists from February 7 to 9 in Bhubaneswar. To be inaugurated by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the festival will showcase fiction, documentary, and animation films […]

“Munna Bhai MBBS” was the movie that gave Sanjay Dutt’s dying career a new life. It also brought into the limelight the struggling actor Arshad Warsi who could not make quite an impact through his earlier ventures. After coming out with two movies, the team of Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani turned their attention […]

New Delhi: Google on Tuesday introduced a new feature to help Indian users discover, compare, and recharge prepaid mobile plans using its ‘Google search.’ Starting this Tuesday, Google Search will enable users to browse plans across several mobile carriers, compare discounts and offers, and recharge these plans using the payment. This search experience is currently […]

Bhopal: Actress Jacqueline Fernandez has worked in a number of films with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. She has now revealed a secret about her former “Kick” co-star. “I don’t think there is anything that I specifically know. But one thing is that since I have worked so closely with him, he doesn’t get any time […]

New York: The benefits of yoga have been widely documented by scientific research and now researchers have found doing yoga is linked to decreased depressive symptoms. The study, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, proposes that yoga can increase levels of Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the short-term and completing one yoga class […]