News from Odisha

Mumbai: It seems the grand finale of “Bigg Boss 13” will offer a lot of surprise elements. A promo video of rivals Sidharth Shukla and Rashami Desai’s dance performance on the “Ang laga de” song from the Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone-starrer “Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela” is proof of the fact. The video is doing […]

Bhubaneswar: While Odisha School and Mass Education department is all geared up to ensure zero failure rate (Zero F) in the annual HSC Examinations this year, in a shocking development, free books meant for class-10 SC/ST students were distributed today – just 3 days before the commencement of the Matric exams. On one hand, while […]

Hamilton: India pacer Mohammed Shami was the star of the show on the second day of the warm-up game between India and New Zealand XI at Seddon Park on Saturday. He picked three wickets to ensure that the hosts fell short of India’s score of 263 by 28 runs. Speaking to reporters at the end […]

Berhampur: A Class-I girl student of a private school in Berhampur of Ganjam district was allegedly forced to strip by a lady teacher for not wearing proper school uniform. After the incident came to fore, the father of the girl lodged a police complaint based on which Baidyanathpur Police detained the lady teacher. According to […]

Chandigarh: Four children were killed on Saturday after an LPG-fuelled modified but discarded van being run illegally by a private school with 12 students on board caught fire at Longowal town in Sangrur district in Punjab, officials said. School authorities purchased the discarded van a day earlier and were running illegally. The dead included two […]

Washington: NASA is funding studies that aim to understand more about Venus, Jupiter’s moon Io and a unique and highly active icy moon of Neptune, Triton. These selected studies will develop concept studies for new missions. Although they are not official missions yet and some ultimately may not be chosen to move forward, the selections […]

San Francisco: A hacker named “EvanConnect” has developed a device which helps users break into any luxury car that uses a wireless key fob system. He named the device “keyless repeater” which he sells for $9,000 and demonstrated how it works in a video which he released recently. The video shows him approaching an unattended […]

Puri: A secret tunnel discovered inside the 500-year-old Gangamata Mutt in Puri is now at the centre of a controversy with tourists, particularly foreigners, flocking the site after being allowed entry into the tunnel. According to sources, foreign tourists in large numbers are visiting the tunnel which reportedly connects to the Ratnabedi of Srimandir. Similarly, […]

Beijing: China has applied Traditional Chinese Medicine in treating more than half of the confirmed patients of novel coronavirus infection in the country’s Hubei province, which is the epicentre of the epidemic, a senior health official said on Saturday. The death toll in China’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has climbed to 1,523 with 143 new […]

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has dared former Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia to follow his threat of taking to streets over unfulfilled party manifesto by saying “let him do”. Speaking to the media, Scindia had said, “If the Congress makes a promise, it meets it. If Congress has promised something then it’s […]

Rourkela: A minor girl allegedly kidnapped by some miscreants from the Steel City was rescued by family members after a year. Acording to sources, the minor girl who belongs to a slum in sector E area of Bondamunda near Rourkela was reportedly abducted by some unidentified miscreants a year back. The miscreants reportedly kept the […]

Mumbai: After spending almost five months in the “Bigg Boss 13” house, actor Sidharth Shukla has been declared winner of the show. He has defeated co-contestant and model Asim Riaz. Sidharth won the “Bigg Boss 13” trophy and a cash prize of Rs 40 lakh. After announcing Sidharth as the winner, host Salman Khan congratulated […]

Mumbai: “Bigg Boss 13” contestant Paras Chhabra is out of the finale race, as he quit the show by taking Rs 10 lakh cash prize. All six finalists — Paras, Rashami Desai, Sidharth Shukla, Asim Riaz, Arti Singh and Shehnaz Gill — were offered the amount to quit the game before the announcement of the […]

Bhubaneswar: After a series of adjournments on Saturday due to protests by opposition members over Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro’s ban on media from reporting ruckus in well of the Odisha Assembly, normalcy was restored in the House following an all-party meeting. The opposition BJP and Congress demanded the withdrawal of Speakers ruling on the media […]

New Delhi: Defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) will take on Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in a repeat of last year’s final in the opening match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Season 13 on March 29 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The schedule for the league phase, which was accessed by IANS, was sent […]