News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The State Congress on Sunday alleged that Odisha Commerce and Transport minister Padmanabha Behera had furnished false information regarding his educational qualification in his poll affidavits. Addressing a presser here today, Congress spokesperson Nishikanta Mishra alleged that the minister filed false information regarding his qualifications in four assembly elections he had contested from 2004 […]

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government had taken decisions on Article 370 abrogating special status for J&K and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in national interest. “These decisions had been pending for decades but we took them in national interest and we will remain firm on them,” he said while addressing […]

New Delhi: The Jamia Millia Islamia on Sunday clarified that it has not released the new video which is circulating on social media showing some men in paramilitary and police personnel uniform beating up students in the university’s library on December 15. The 48-second video, which appears to be a CCTV footage, purportedly shows some […]

Mumbai: Actress Disha Patani is currently enjoying the success of her latest film “Malang”, and is also thinking of her future. She says she loves to experiment with roles and would like to do an action movie someday. On Sunday, the “Baaghi 2” had a chat session with her fans on Twitter. She spoke about […]

New Delhi: BCCI ethics officer D K Jain on Sunday confirmed that he has rendered the conflict of interest complaint against Kapil Dev as “infructuous” after the former India captain stepped down from his multiple cricketing roles. Jain, who is into the last month of his one-year contract with the BCCI, had earlier rendered infructuous […]

Bhubaneswar: Private engineering colleges in Odisha are going bust in a big way. As many as 37 out of 90 engineering colleges functional in the State will face progressive closure in 2020-21. The colleges dot across the State ranging from Rayagada to Berhampur, Sambalpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jharsuguda and Bhubaneswar etc. As per highly placed sources […]

Guwahati: Union Human Resource Department Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishak’ on Sunday warned those who, he claimed, are working to bring down the stature of the esteemed institutes like the Jawaharlal Nehru University or Jamia Milia Islamia. “Be it JNU, Jamia or other institutions, all of them are very good. I have been saying this from […]

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan keeps his followers hooked on to his tweets with his messages, throwback photos and fan work. This time, he kept them busy with a “guess” game. “I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?,” […]

Bhubaneswar: Following allegations of massive irregularities in the selection of examination centres for the upcoming annual Plus II examination 2020, the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Sunday decided to exclude 20 allotted centres from conducting the exam. A decision regarding changing of the examination centres was taken in an emergency meeting of the […]

New York: Estrangement has become harder in the digital age and social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, can make break-ups much worse, say researchers. People who use features like unfriending, unfollowing or blocking still face troubling encounters with ex-partners online. For the study, published in the journal ‘Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer […]

Pyongyang: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un made his first public appearance in three weeks on Sunday to take part in a ceremony marking what would have been the 78th birthday of his late father Kim Jong-il. Kim paid tribute to his predecessor at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in the capital Pyongyang. After his […]

Beijing: China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Sunday said that 9,419 coronavirus patients have been cured even as the death from the virus has risen to 1,665 and the number of confirmed cases has reached 68,500. So far, 529,418 people have been identified as having had close contact with infected patients and 58,764 people are […]

Bengaluru: Just before the singles finals of the Bengaluru Open, tennis legend Leander Paes who is on his swan song and played his last ATP event on Indian soil on Saturday, was given a rousing farewell at the KSLTA Stadium with former Olympians and sports internationals felicitating the country’s tennis icon. There were athletes who […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government’s flagship skill development initiative ‘Skilled In Odisha’ seems to have failed to ensure sustained employability of trained youths and eradicate unemployment from the State. The situation is evident from the statement of State Skill Development and Technical Education minister Premananda Nayak. According to the minister’s speech in the State Assembly recently, the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Arvind Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi chief minister and extended him best wishes for a fruitful tenure. Kejriwal, along with his cabinet colleagues Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Gopal Rai, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Pal Gautam and Kailash Gahlot were administered the oath of office and secrecy […]