News from Odisha

New Delhi: In yet another 2020 surprise, NASA data has predicted that a small asteroid heading towards the Earth has a 0.41 per cent chance of hitting the planet one day before the US presidential election that is scheduled for November 3. NASA scientists have predicted that the asteroid “2018VP1” with a diameter of 0.002 […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has declared that the massive wildfires wreaking havoc across California, which have already burnt over 1 million acres of land and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents, were a major disaster and has released federal aid. Currently, more than 14,000 firefighters were battling to contain the blazes […]

Dhenkanal: Around 40 socially backward families were allegedly subjected to social boycott for over a fortnight after a 15-year-old girl plucked flowers from the garden of an ‘upper-caste’ man in Kantio Kateni village under Tumusinga police station in Dhenkanal district. Their ordeal however ended following the intervention of police and administration, an official informed. “Two […]

Dubai: Legendary South African all-rounder Jaques Kallis, Pakistan batting great Zaheer Abbas and Pune-born former Australian captain Lisa Sthalekar were on Sunday inducted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame in a virtual ceremony. Among the finest all-rounders to play the game, Kallis represented South Africa in 166 Tests, 328 ODIs and 25 T20s […]

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration on Tuesday clamped strict restrictions as part of its strategy to contain the spread of Covid-19. As per a notification, all religious institutions in the…

Has there been a fallout between Karan Johar and Hrithik Roshan? The latest developments indicate that the Krrish actor is not very happy with the head of Dharma Productions. It all started when Hrithik denied gracing the couch of ‘Koffee with Karan’ Season 5. And he had a genuine reason to do it. Actually, at […]

Mumbai: A Mumbai locksmith – who helped open the door of the room where actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead on June 14 – has now broken his silence after two months. Rafique Shaikh said he was not permitted inside the room and left the flat soon after breaking open the complicated lock and […]

Chennai: With senior commanders holding to their positions and signing peace treaties, the junior jawans of Indian chess made strategic moves to down China to enter the quarter-finals of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Sunday. India thrashed China 4-2 with young chess masters R.Praggnanandhaa and Divya Deshmukh winning their respective games. On the other […]

Dehradun: Flooded ‘nallahs’, broken routes, landslide-prone areas, 40 kms and 15 hours on a stretcher, the ‘Himveers’ of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) rescued an injured woman from a remote village in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district and saved her life by providing her crucial medication at a hospital. A group of 25 ITBP men took the initiative […]

Bhadrak: Sheer determination and hard work always yield results no matter how hard the objective is. Noor Mohammed Khan from Bhadrak, who finished at the top in the Alim Final Degree Plus-III examinations-2020 in Odisha this year is a perfect example of such a success. Noor, who hails from a small village named Sabarpur under […]

New Delhi: After exploding in most populous cities like Delhi and Mumbai, Covid-19 is now rearing up in large and small cities, which experienced migration from these megapolises. The concern rises, as the concentration of health personnel and infrastructure is only limited to large urban centres, and this is apparent in Delhi’s next-door neighbour Uttar […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Special Relief Commissioner has asked collectors of all the districts to remain prepared to meet any water logging, localized flood & other exigencies in view of a fresh low pressure area likely to be formed over the Bay-of-Bengal between August 24 and 26. A letter in this connection was issued to the commissioner-cum-secretary […]

A few days ago Kangana Ranaut slammed Aamir Khan tweeting an old interview of the famous Bollywood actor. In this interview, the Lagaan superstar is allegedly saying that even though his wife is a Hindu, his children will follow Islam. The interview presents Aamir as an extremist who seems to be dead against either of […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered its highest ever single-day COVID-19 recovery on Sunday with 2129 more patients recuperating from the disease. The total number of recoveries in the State has jumped to 54405 in the state. As per the information provided by the Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department, the highest 276 number of recovered cases were […]

New Delhi: The 2020 National Sports Awards curved a milestone moment for Indian badminton as it received as many as record six awards which also included its first-ever Dhyanchand Award for lifetime achievement. The prestigious Dhyanchand Award was conferred to former star shuttlers Pradeep Gandhe, Trupti Murgunde and Satyaprakash Tiwari (para) for their contribution to […]