News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Despite an estimated drop in State’s share in Central taxes, Odisha on Tuesday presented a budget of Rs 1.50 lakh crore for the financial year 2020-21 as compared Rs 1.35 lakh crore for the year 2019-20. While presenting the first paperless budget in Odisha Assembly, State Finance minister Niranjan Pujari informed that Odisha’s total […]

New Delhi: Sunil Kumar on Tuesday overpowered Azat Salidinov of Kyrgyzstan 5-0 in the 87kg summit bout to win India’s first Greco-Roman gold medal in Asian Wrestling Championships in 27 years. Entering the gold medal bout after a come-from-behind victory in the semifinal, Kumar comprehensively defeated his opponent in the final of 87kg category at […]

Bolangir: In yet another incident of sheer ‘medical negligence’ in Odisha, a three-year-old girl was allegedly prescribed medicines meant for a 55-year-old person at Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital in Bolangir. As per sources, the pathology report of the minor girl got exchanged in the hospital following which the doctor prescribed medicines for the […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has made elaborate security arrangements to thwart malpractice, question paper leak and prevent any other lapses during the Class X Matric examination which will begin from tomorrow. To avoid question paper leak, the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha (BSE) has reportedly adopted a multi-tier protection system for question-cum-answer papers which will be […]

Bhubaneswar: Agriculture continues to remain the focus area of Odisha government as it proposed an outlay of Rs.19,408 crore for the sector in the 2020-21 State budget which was presented by Finance minister Niranjan Pujari in Odisha Assembly on Tuesday. The outlay is an addition to the existing Rs.12,000 crore which is invested through extra […]

Attention candidates, the last date to apply for the Short Service Commission (SSC) Technical grade is here. Interested and eligible candidates must submit applications for the positions in Indian Army today as February 20 is the deadline to apply. “Applications have been sought from eligible unmarried Male and unmarried Female Engineering Graduates and also from […]

Mumbai: The 2008 Mumbai terror strikes that took place on 26/11 were originally planned for September 27 that year and the Lashkar-e-Taiba wanted terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, who was the only one to be nabbed alive, was supposed to have a Hindu identity. Moreover, the absconder Indian mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar had plans to […]

Bhubaneswar: Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday started probe to ascertain more information from the travel records of arrested ex-MLA Anup Sai as multiple police teams from the neighbouring State are now on the job to collect more evidence in the sensational 2016 double murder case. According to police, Sai along with his driver Burdhan Toppo were […]

Bhubaneswar: While presenting the State budget 2020-21 in Odisha Assembly on Tuesday, Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari also introduced the Climate Budget which aims to keep track of the government expenditure made for climate change or to support mitigation and adaption actions to address climate change. The Finance minister said, “We propose to introduce a document […]

New Delhi: Women in entrepreneurship can generate transformational employment in India and generate 150-170 million jobs, which is more than 25 per cent of the new jobs required for the entire working-age population by 2030, a new report said on Tuesday. A joint report by Bain & Company and Google titled “Women Entrepreneurship in India […]

New Delhi: A new survey report on Tuesday said that India will see the lowest salary increase in a decade this year and even the real estate and transport sector — the top national job generators — will witness lowest pay hikes in 2020. The sharpest drop in pay hikes was projected in the auto […]

The Reserve Bank of India has released an advertisement for Engagement of Medical Consultant (MC) in the Bank on Contract Basis with ‘Fixed Hourly Remuneration’. “Applications are invited from eligible candidates for preparing a panel of 14 posts of Part-time Bank’s Medical Consultant (MC) on purely contract basis, with fixed hourly remuneration for the dispensaries […]

Bengaluru: A second Kambala racer has emerged faster than Srinivas Gowda, the jockey hogging limelight across the country for ‘eclipsing’ Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt’s 100m record. “Nishant Shetty hailing from Bajagoli Jogibettu village broke Gowda’s record at Venoor Kambala (buffalo race). He covered 100m in just 9.51 seconds,” said a Kambala organiser. Bolt currently […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the novel coronavirus scare across the globe, a microbiology report of a patient admitted to AMRI Hospitals in Bhubaneswar has caused a lot of chaos in the capital city. Reason, the report shows the patient is having coronavirus traces in his body. As soon as the report set social media platforms ablaze, the […]

Puri: Ahead of the world famous Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath this year, the second batch of timber, which will be used for the construction of gigantic chariots, reached the…