News from Odisha

Washington: A wildfire raging in the US state of Wyoming has scorched over 17,606 acres, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said. According to the latest information updated by the local BLM office on Friday, the blaze dubbed “Neiber Fire” started on Tuesday south of Worland, a rural small city with 5,000 residents, and the […]

The Mumbai police today interrogated the head of Yash Raj Films Aditya Chopra in context with the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. According to reports, the Kedarnath actor was depressed after YRF decided to close his movie Paani to be directed by Shekhar Kapur. As is known, Sushant opted out of many big movies including 2 to […]

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 graph of Bhubaneswar continued its upward trend with 87 more persons testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. Among the latest cases, 41 are detected from various quarantine centres while remaining 46 cases are local contacts, as per the information shared by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Update on […]

New Delhi: In a bid to prevent suppression of information by taxpayers, the income tax department will provide full details of their financial transactions such as sale and purchase of stocks, real estate transactions, payment details of credit card bills in the form of a statement in the new Form 26AS. #BREAKING New form 26AS […]

Mumbai: Comedian Kapil Sharma has resumed shooting for his popular comedy show after spending 125 days at home owing to the lockdown. Taking to Instagram Stories, Kapil posted a few videos of his co-stars arriving at the sets od “The Kapil Sharma Show”, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “Taking all precautions. #Staysafe #Staysanitised, “Kapil captioned one […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 607 coronavirus patients recovered in Odisha on Saturday, taking the State’s total recoveries to 11937. After today’s recoveries, the number of active cases in the State now stand at 4,652, according to the State Health and Family Welfare Department. The maximum number of recovered patients were from Ganjam district (279) followed […]

London: Researchers have found that patient’s eyes can reveal if they suffered a traumatic experience in the past. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur when a person has experienced a traumatic event such as a car crash, combat stress, or abuse. “The findings allow us to understand that people with PTSD are automatically primed for […]

Parineeti Chopra recently shared a lot of paintings of her artist mother on Twitter account requesting fans to encourage her as she believes that her mother is as good as any professional painter. In her tweet, the Shuddh Desi Romance actress says, “My mom is not a professional artist. But she loves to paint because […]

New Delhi: The Central government has laid out the modalities for contributions and grants from any person or institution to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF), for the first time after 15 years of its establishment. Announcing this on Saturday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the contributions to the NDRF have been allowed […]

Ayodhya: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya either on August 3 or 5, both auspicious dates, a spokesperson said on Saturday. The prime minister had announced the formation of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust […]

Guwahati: Flood-related incidents claimed three more lives in Assam, where the deluge has hit 27.64 lakh people in 26 of the 33 districts and destroyed houses, crops, roads and bridges at several places. Two persons died in Barpeta and one person in South Salmara district, taking the death toll to 105, including 26 in landslides, […]

Bhubaneswar: When the results of the annual Plus II examination are going to be declared this year is a question that is keeping 3.5 lakh students in Odisha anxious. With lockdown and weekend shutdown interrupting the ongoing evaluation of annual Plus II examination answer scripts, uncertainty continues to cloud the visibility regarding the publication of […]

Manchester: Play was not possible on the third day of the second Test between England and West Indies due to persistent rains at Old Trafford, Manchester on Thursday. There was no change in the overnight scoreboard as West Indies still trail by 437 runs in the first innings. The visitors had lost the wicket of […]

New Delhi: In a major development, AIIMS Delhi will begin human trials of India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, from next week on 100 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 55. The volunteers will be kept under observation for a period of nearly 150 days. Covaxin is developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the […]

Bengaluru/Bhubaneswar: Popular video-sharing app, Chingari continues to see immense growth in popularity with total downloads crossing 23 million within a short span of time. With the ban on TikTok providing additional tailwind, Chingari App is upping the ante to garner as many subscribers as possible. In view of the same, Chingari App, developed by Biswatma […]