News from Odisha

New Delhi: For the first time, entry will be free for all women visiting monuments under the ASI across the country on International Women’s Day on Sunday, the culture ministry said. According to an order issued by the ministry, on March 8, no fee will be charged from women visitors at all the monuments under […]

Paradip: Some job aspirants have alleged irregularity during a recruitment process which was initiated by the Paradip Port Trust. As per allegations, the port authorities had invited applications for the recruitment of 96 Outdoor Clerks on February 20, 2015. However, the recruitment process was cancelled on March 19, 2016 due to unknown reasons leaving around […]

New Delhi: Three more positive cases of novel coronavirus have been reported in India taking the total number of confirmed cases to 34, Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. Of the three, two are from Ladakh with travel history to Iran while one is from Tamil Nadu who had visited Oman, the ministry said, adding […]

New Delhi: Indian doubles pair of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Gnanasekaran Sathiyan on Saturday entered Top-20 in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)s men doubles world ranking. The duo, who clinched silver medal in Hungarian Open last month, jumped 20 places to claim 17th position. Another notable progress for India is Sutirtha Mukherjee who […]

New Delhi: India’s first health minister and torchbearer of women’s rights, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, has been accorded a revered place in TIME’s magazine’s list of the 100 most influential women “who were often overshadowed”. The magazine named Rajkumari Kaur the woman of the year 1947 for “championing an independent India” and helping the country break […]

Cuttack: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Supreme Court to oversee probe in black money used during the general elections last year will submit its seventh interim report in the next two months. The information regarding submission of the report was given by SIT Vice-Chairman, Justice (retired) Arijit Pasayat today after a meeting […]

Bhubaneswar: To celebrate International Women’s Day tomorrow, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Friday ran a women’s special goods train from Khurda Road to Palasa in Andhra Pradesh. The train with all-women crew was part of a campaign of the Railway department to mark the International Women’s Day. The Khurda Road division of ECoR is […]

Beijing: Around 70 people were trapped after a hotel building housing quarantined coronavirus suspects collapsed in China’s Quanzhou city on Saturday, according to the official media here. Thirty-three people were rescued after the 80-room hotel collapsed in Fujian Province at around 7.30 pm local time. Around 70 people were trapped under the rubble, state-run Xinhua […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Director General of Police Abhay has asked all the district police heads and DCPs in the State to take strong note and act against the alleged illegal stocking of private publisher books and their sale at exorbitant rates in various private English medium schools in the State. The DGP’s directive comes in the […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asked the vice-chancellors of Odisha universities to maintain transparency in the recruitment of teachers and preserve discipline in the campus. Interacting with the VCs of 11 public universities here, Patnaik urged the varsity chiefs to elevate the academic excellence at the institutions to higher levels. “For enhancing the […]

Bhubaneswar: With the development of digitalisation in Odisha, people of the State are witnessing a rise in instances of new ways of fraudulence. While forging someone’s bank cheques to loot money is not new, report of miscreants using a certain type of pen with ‘vanishing ink’ to plunder money from the bank account of a […]

Koraput: Even as the International Women’s Day is celebrated today across the globe with the theme of #EachforEqual – means to create an equal and enabled world, here are two gritty women entrepreneurs in Odisha who scripted a silent revolution in the arena of women empowerment. Living the popular adage Khud Jiyo auron ko jeena […]

Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate arrested Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor under money laundering charges here in the early hours of Sunday, officials said. The banker was held under the provision of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) around 3 am as he was allegedly not cooperating in the probe, they said. Kapoor’s arrest at […]

Mumbai: Air India will operate over 40 flights with all-women crew, today on International Women’s Day. According to a company statement, Air India would operate more than 40 flights on domestic and international routes, with all women crew including the non-stop flight to San Francisco. “Women cockpit and cabin crew of Air India are operating […]

Bhopal: Two officials of the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education were suspended on the directives of Chief Minister Kamal Nath after a question paper for Social Science for Class 10 examination on Saturday referred the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as Azad Kashmir. An MPBSE official said the paper setter and the moderator were suspended […]