News from Odisha

New Delhi: With some of the 100 selected Smart Cities lagging behind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi will guide Amritsar and Ahmedabad will help Chandigarh in implementing projects under the mission. The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has paired up 20 best performing cities with the 20 bottom cities and they will […]

Bolangir: Three persons including a woman were killed and seven other labourers injured after an SUV rammed into a stationary truck near Bairasar village under Puintala block on Sonepur-Bolangir main road in the district today. Reports said two persons died on the spot and another person succumbed to injuries while being taken to hospital. One […]

Mumbai: TV actress Shivangi Joshi, who is currently seen in “Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai”, has made her music video debut with Nikhil D’Souza’s song “Aadatein”. It is composed by Gaurav Dagaonkar, and written by Anurag Bhomia. “Music videos have been quite a rage these days and the reason perhaps why I have been selective […]

New Delhi: With the Election Commission yet to come out with the final voting percentage of Delhi assembly elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the delay was “absolutely shocking” and wondered why the poll panel was not releasing the figure several hours after polling got over. “Absolutely shocking. What is EC doing? Why […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to Chinese President Xi Jinping, offering India’s assistance to China to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. In his letter, the prime minister expressed solidarity with the president and the people of China over the outbreak of the virus in the country, official sources said. Modi offered India’s […]

New Delhi: The first meeting of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirth Kshetra Trust is going to be held on February 19 at the Delhi residence of K. Parasaran, the head of the trust, said a source here on Sunday. The construction of the grand Ram temple will start either from April 2 (Ramnavami) or April […]

Potchefstroom (South Africa): Sharp bowling from the fiery Bangladesh pacers and good fielding coupled with some slack running between the wickets led to India folding for 177 in the ICC U19 World Cup final on Sunday in Potchefstroom. India are looking to win their fifth title while this is the first time that Bangladesh have […]

Mumbai: A 12-year old Mumbai student, Kaamya Karthikeyan has set a record of becoming the youngest in the world to summit Mt. Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, South America, an official said here on Sunday. Kaamya is a Class VII student of Navy Children School, achieved the feat atop the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) on Sunday targeted the Odisha government over delay in preparing the list of beneficiaries for Biju Pucca Ghar housing scheme and alleged that the list is being prepared on party basis. Addressing a presser today, BJP general secretary Prithviraj Harichandan said, “The State government had initially prepared a list of […]

Bhubaneswar: In the recent memory, electrocution of a bus at Golanthra, near Berhampur, on Sunday that took a human toll of around 10 is second such 4-wheeler electrocution case in Odisha. The State had such a tragic 4-wheeler electrocution incident in year 2016, when at least six persons electrocuted to death and over 20 injured […]

London: As the worst storm in seven years set its eyes on the UK and Europe, a British Airways (BA) flight utilised the strong tail winds and reached Heathrow airport from New York in a record four hours and 56 minutes — at a subsonic speed of over 1,290 km per hour. According to the […]

New Delhi: After a row over the delay in announcing total voter turnout for Delhi Assembly elections on Saturday, Chief Election Officer Ranbir Singh on Sunday evening blamed the delay on collation of data. Singh informed media that the final voter turnout was 62.59 per cent, which he termed “satisfactory”. He said that the Delhi […]

Bolangir: One is an ardent devotee of Ram and the other a follower of Rahim but their hearts knew that while their faith was man-made and would last till their existence, their love for each other was destined by the almighty and would last long to inspire generations to come. Much like the story of […]

Balasore: While the novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in China, miles away in Odisha the fear of the deadly disease is clearly evident from the case of two families who were refused to cremate their kin who died in a gas leakage in Japan. Sheikh Mantaz of Kasaba Kamarda area in Balasore and Sheikh […]

A new test kit to detect coronavirus, that takes just 15 minutes, has been developed at Tianjin University of China. It will help save time in screening out potential patients. According to Global Times, Tianjin University developed the kit in collaboration with Beijing Biotech company. The kit is undergoing clinical trials and will be sent […]