News from Odisha

New Delhi: Vodafone Idea said on Thursday that all its postpaid products and services will be exclusively offered to customers under Vodafone RED plan. After the merger, this will be the telco’s first move to offer one plan for all postpaid customers of former Idea Cellular and Vodafone India. This new strategy will be rolled […]

New Delhi: Noted writer Manoj Das will receive the Mystic Kalinga Literary Award-Indian and Global Languages during the fourth edition of the two-day Mystic Kalinga Festival (MKF), an amalgamation of literary and cultural deliberations, poetry recitation and performances, which commences in Bhubaneswar on February 8. Das will also deliver the keynote address at the festival […]

Mumbai: Former beauty queen Tanushree Dutta turned heads in a black outfit. She is seen posing just like beauty queens – hands confidently placed on her waist and striking a pose. “Just some random clicks at a local Mumbai hotspot in Versova,” she captioned the photos posted on social media on Thursday. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8OL7xrlEER/ While one […]

New Delhi: Twitterati added mirth and sarcasm to reports that said the residents in a Kerala building recently got a “boozy surprise” as the liquor flowed from taps in their building. According to media reports, it all began six years ago when a bar named ‘Rachana’, located near the building, was charged with unlawfully storing […]

New Delhi: The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has proposed the draft amendment to the Drugs and magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements Act, 1954), with a stringent punishment of a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh for advertisements for magic remedies and drugs for fair skin, […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump said that the US had conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). “The United States conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qa’ida (al-Qaeda) in […]

Indian Army has released a vacancy notification for Short Service Commission (SSC) Technical grade. Interested and eligible candidates can submit applications for the positions by February 20, 2020. “Applications have been sought from eligible unmarried Male and unmarried Female Engineering Graduates and also from widows of defence personnel who died in harness for grant of […]

Nabarangpur: One of the two minor girls who went missing from Pakhanaguda village in Raighar block of the district a few days ago was found dead in an abandoned well near the village on Thursday. The girl identified as Panchabati (9), daughter of Mahadev Tiwary of the village had gone missing since February 4 along […]

Beijing: The Death toll in China’s novel coronavirus epidemic has climbed to 636 with 73 mortalities on Thursday, while the total number of confirmed cases crossed 31,000, Chinese health officials said on Friday. Hubei province and its provincial capital Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, reported 69 deaths on Thursday while Jilin, Henan, Guangdong […]

Athens: Greek Olympic shooting champion Anna Korakaki will be the first-ever woman to start the Olympic torch relay, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) has announced. The committee has unanimously decided that Korakaki will be the first torchbearer during the Olympic Flame Lighting ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Games on March 12 at the ancient Olympia, […]

Koraput: The district police here on Thursday suspended and arrested a police Sub Inspector on charges of accepting bribe from the kin of an accident victim, Koraput SP Mukesh Kumar Bhamoo informed at a presser. According to police sources, one Debendra Tanti of Mulasura village under Ambaguda police outpost limits was killed in an accident […]

London: Our Facebook or Instagram friends implicitly influence our eating habits as social media users are more likely to eat fruit and vegetables — or snack on junk food — if they think their friends do the same, say researchers. The research by the UK-based Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences found that […]

Puri: As many as 30 families residing in Kurupal village under Krushnaprasad block of Puri district continued their dharna in front of Krushnaprasad tehsil office today to show grievances over their social ostracization from the village for some political reasons since 2019 general polls. Though members of the ostracised families tried negotiating with the villagers […]

New Delhi: In its ninth consecutive cut in MCLR by a bank in the current fiscal, India’s top lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday announced a cut in the retail fixed deposits or FD rates effective from February 10. The reduction in MCLR by the bank comes a day after the RBI left […]

Bhubaneswar: Moderate to heavy rainfall lashed parts of Odisha on due to a low-pressure area over Bay of Bengal, disrupting normal life to much extent. Bhubaneswar Regional Meteorological Centre has predicted that the gloomy weather will persist in most places while partly cloudy sky will be seen in the other. What’s more concerning is that […]