News from Odisha

Boudh: In a daredevil operation that lasted for more than two hours, a team of Odisha fire fighters rescued a child stuck between rocks in a raging river in Boudh district on Wednesday. As per the reports, the 5-year-old boy from Buruguda village under Purunakatak police limits in the district got stuck in the cavity […]

Mumbai/New Delhi: Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s relations with his family members were not strained, as claimed by many, as the late actor had named his sister as a nominee in his investments in a private bank. According to the screenshot of chats shared between Sushant and his investment planner, whose name was withheld, the […]

Mumbai: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy took a jibe at filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, questioning if he has converted to Islam. “Has Cinema Dada Mahesh Bhatt converted to Islam and taken name of Ashraf Butt? If not please ask him to correct the police records,” Swamy tweeted on Wednesday. Has Cinema Dada Mahesh Bhatt converted […]

Kangana Ranaut today asked Bollywood A-listers like Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor, Ayan Mukerjee, and Vicky Kaushal to take a drug test. In her tweet, the actress by mistake wrote Vicky Kaushal as Vicky Kaushik. As a matter of fact, this caused a lot of confusion among Twitter users. On the other hand, many slammed the […]

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology today banned as many as 118 mobile apps including PUBG in view of the emergent nature of threats as they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order. The Ministry reportedly received many complaints […]

Keonjhar: As many as 12 junior teachers have been issued show cause notices for allegedly submitting fake B.Ed certificates to get teacher jobs in Odisha. Keonjhar District Programme Coordinator, Purna Chandra Sethi said, “We have identified 12 teachers across eight blocks here, who have furnished fake B.Ed certificates to get jobs. We have issued show […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after father of Aditya Dash alleged that a ‘psycho woman’ is involved in his son’s mysterious death, a friend of Aditya today revealed that the late social activist had an affair with an unknown lady. “Aditya had introduced me to a girl as his girlfriend. However, I don’t know anything about that […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Higher Education Department on Wednesday released guidelines for the conduct of the final semester exams for Under Graduate (UG) and Post Graduate (PG) exams in the State. The department has taken some decisions with regard to conduct of UG and PG examinations by the State Public Universities and Autonomous Colleges coming under the […]

Mumbai: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved the sale of IL&FS’s education business, Schoolnet India Ltd, to Lexington Equity Holdings Ltd (LEHL). As per the deal, LEHL will service the entire debt of Schoolnet and will pay equity of around Rs 7.39 crore to IL&FS, the parent company. LEHL already holds a 26.13 […]

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved ‘Mission Karmayogi’, dubbed as the biggest bureaucratic reform initiative, aimed at capacity building of government employees to make them more “creative, proactive, professional and technology-enabled”. The core guiding principles of the competency-driven programme will be to support a transition from rules based to roles based HR management […]

The Indian Government has banned PUBG Mobile game after the Chinese military breached the LAC protocol. Incidentally, the government banned both the versions of PUBG-PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map: Livik and PUBG MOBILE LITE. It is very bad news for the lovers of this most popular mobile game in the world. However, the good news is […]

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha’s capital city Bhubaneswar recorded 541 fresh COVID-19 cases, the highest spike in the number of single-day infections since the outbreak of the pandemic. As is being claimed by the health authorities, the city is now going through a peak. It has not only reported the highest daily spike […]

Bhubaneswar: Soon after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Wednesday banned PUBG along with 118 mobile apps, the decision has resulted in a flurry of memes and reactions on Twitter. While many welcomed the move by sharing memes on Twitter, many expressed disappointment over the development. Here are some of the memes on […]

New Delhi: A total of 4,21,104 people died in accidents due to various causes in the country in the year 2019, data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) revealed. During 2019, a total of 4,37,396 cases of road accidents were reported which left 4,39,262 persons injured and caused 1,54,732 deaths. 38 per cent of […]

New Delhi: Senior advocate Vikas Singh, representing the family of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, criticised the role of certain news organisations as far as their coverage was concerned, claiming that Sushant’s family believes it is to aid the image of his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty. He also warned of “necessary actions” if the campaigns […]