News from Odisha

Rayagada: Despite having no majority in the 21-member council, the BJD today captured the Rayagada Zilla Parishad (ZP) President post in the by-poll by snatching it from the Congress. Gangadhar Puala of the BJD became the new ZP president of Rayagada. The BJD snatched the seat from Congress by getting 13 votes despite having only […]

The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is going to result of Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) and Junior Hindi Translator (JHT) soon. As per latest reports, the SSC CHSL 2018 tier 2 exam result will be declared on February 25, 2020. Similarly, Junior Hindi Translator (JHT), junior translator, senior Hindi translator and Hindi Pradhyapak examination 2018 exam result […]

Bhadohi (UP): An FIR has been lodged against BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi and six others in Bhadohi on Wednesday for allegedly raping a woman repeatedly for a month in 2017. The woman, 40, had lodged a complaint on February 10. The complainant had alleged that in 2017, Tripathi and his six accomplices kept her […]

New Delhi: Former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nripendra Mishra has been appointed chief of temple construction committee while Mahant Nritya Gopal Das was named Chairman of Ram Mandir Trust at the first meeting of Ram Janmabhoomi Tritha Kshetra Trust held here on Wednesday. Champat Rai, the international Vice President of the Vishwa […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government introduced the centralised token system to ease the process of paddy procurement but it seems it is in no way benefiting the farmers. While allegations continue to pour in from various market yards (mandi) regarding delay in procurement, Congress members expressed concerns over problems being faced by farmers in the State. During […]

London: Healthy young adults who have previously contracted Covid-19 will be recruited to take part in a new human challenge trial to study how the body’s immune system reacts to…

Hyderabad: BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday described the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as the ‘biggest madness’ of 21st century and called for radical reforms like abolishing income tax to achieve 10 per cent growth rate to make the country an economic superpower by 2030. He said the country has […]

Bhubaneswar: Tension ran high near Kalinga Hospital in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday after hundreds of residents of Salia Sahi slum congregated to oppose an eviction drive by the administration. According to reports, a team of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) along with police reached the spot to evict the slum dwellers to […]

Guwahati: PAN card, land and bank documents do not prove one’s Indian citizenship, the Gauhati High Court has observed while dismissing a woman’s plea against a tribunal order that rejected her citizenship claim. A division bench comprising justices Manojit Bhuyan and P J Saikia dismissed Jabeda Begum’s plea as the documents submitted by her could […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has as many as 10,210 sex workers in 22 of the 30 districts of the state, Health and Family Welfare minister Naba Kishore Das told the Assembly on Wednesday. Das said this while replying to a question in the Assembly. The minister said the state government identified the sex workers during a survey […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday said that it has no plan to merge its own farmers welfare scheme, KALIA, with the PM Kisan Yojana. Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment minister Arun Kumar Sahoo made this statement while replying to a question in the Assembly. He said the eligible farmers will get Rs 10,000 per annum […]

New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Wednesday decided to make the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) voluntary for farmers, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said. Addressing an event here, Tomar said that the decision was taken in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting following some complaints regarding the scheme launched in April 2016. PMFBY is compulsory for […]

Bhubaneswar: The father of a Class X student of Kapileswar High School in Puri has filed a police complaint against the school authorities as his child was not allowed to appear in the annual HSC examinations which began today across Odisha. As per the complaint lodged at Ramchandi police station, on February 15 Soumyaranjan along […]

New Delhi: Faridabad resident Prabhjeet, an oral cancer survivor, lost the right half of his jaw bone seven years back. In all those years he lived on a liquid diet, until 3D printing came to his rescue. Doctors at Fortis Hospital in the capital performed a first-of-its-kind jaw reconstruction surgery on Prabhjeet with a 3D-printed […]

Washington: The largest planet in our solar system may not be as dry as earlier shown by a NASA probe, according to the first science results revealed by the US space agency’s Juno mission on the amount of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere. At the equator, water makes up about 0.25 per cent of the molecules […]