News from Odisha

Sushil Kumar had won the jackpot prize of Rs 5 crore on the quiz show, Kaun Banega Crorepati season 5, hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan in 2011. He is still among the biggest winners of the show but says that life after winning the prize has been nothing but challenging. He took to his Facebook […]

Action has been a perennial favorite genre among lovers of mainstream cinema, especially in the Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam film industries. Many top actors are exploring the idea of…

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police on Monday booked three men in the suicide case of Telugu television actor Kondapalli Sravani, who hanged herself last week. The police announced the arrest of Sai Krishna Reddy, listed as accused number one, and Devaraj Reddy, accused number three, for abetment to suicide while the accused number two, film producer Ashok […]

Bhubaneswar: Former secretary of Odisha Olympic Association (OAA) Ashirbad Behera on Monday got a clean chit from the Centra Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with Barabati stadium land grabbing case. The central agency has reportedly filed its final report in the Supreme Court in connection with the investigation into the alleged land grab case […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the COVID-19 spread is at its peak with the State reporting highest single-day spike of over 4000 positive cases on Monday, the Odisha government has decided to close down all the temporary medical centres (TMCs) and COVID care centres. In a letter to all district collectors and municipal commissioners, the […]

Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has reportedly admitted that the names of Sara Ali Khan and Rakul Preet Singh surfaced during the investigation process. However, it informed that no summons have been issued to them yet. Times Now had earlier reported that Rhea Chakraborty took the names of Sara and Rakul during the NCB […]

Jaipur: Rajasthan has become the second state in the country to have got more than one crore people vaccinated by Monday afternoon. State medical and health minister Dr. Raghu Sharma…

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has postponed the National Eligibility Test (NET) after finding that its dates were clashing with Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) exam. The Ministry of Education’s testing agency on Monday postponed the NET and the exam has now been scheduled to be conducted from September 16 to September […]

Cuttack: Noted children’s author Nadiya Bihari Mohanty died at a private hospital here on Monday due to age-related ailments, family sources said. He was 90. He is survived by wife Arati. Mohanty had joined as a programmer at All India Radio, (AIR) Cuttack, in the 1960’s. He soon became a household name for his popular […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the unrelenting surge in COVID-19 cases, the Odisha government on Monday asked all private hospitals in major cities and towns to reserve 50 per cent of beds for coronavirus patients. A notification in this regard was issued by the state health and family welfare department during the day, and the directives came into […]

Berhampur: Two days after three leopard skins were seized from smugglers in Nabarangpur district on Sunday, another leopard skin has been seized at Baliapada area in the district on Monday evening. Acting on a tip-off on the trafficking of leopard skin, a team of forest department officials conducted a raid in Balipada area and arrested […]

Mumbai: A special court here, in its order on bail plea of actress Rhea Chakraborty, has said at present stage there are no “reasonable grounds” for not connecting her to the case that relates to drug angle in death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput three months ago. Rhea (28), her brother Showik and several other […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 29.1 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 927,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 29,182,198 and the fatalities rose to 927,015, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, while commenting on the recent gang-rape of a women by two men in front of her little kids, said on Monday that rapists should be handed down the most severe punishment to curb rising sexual violence in the country. Imran Khan went on to elaborate the punishments — public hanging […]

New York: Chinese whistleblower virologist Li-Meng Yan who was forced to flee the country after raising questions about the origin of the novel coronavirus, has once again said the Covid-19 virus was developed in a Chinese lab, a claim that has earlier been denied by both Beijing and the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a […]