Bhubaneswar: A day after the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) challenged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a debate alleging gross negligence to Odisha in the Union Railway Budget 2021-22, the saffron party on Tuesday threw an open challenge at Naveen Patnaik-led government for a discussion over the same. Speaking to the reporters during a press […]
Washington: NASA has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk’s private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for an astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light. The planned two-year mission is called SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer. The near-infrared light, which, though […]
Kathmandu: China will provide 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal on a grant basis, officials here said on Saturday, supplying the first batch of vaccine aid for the Himalayan nation. During a telephonic conversation with his Nepali counterpart Pradeep Gyawali on Friday evening, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured that China would accord priority […]
Chandigarh: Farmers on Saturday parked their tractor-trailers in middle of roads and raised slogans against the Centre during a three-hour-long “chakka jam” agitation in Punjab and Haryana. Women took part in the stir in sizeable number at several places. The call for the nationwide “chakka jam” was given by the farmer unions protesting the Centre’s […]
Chennai: Skipper Joe Root scored his fifth double century — the first by a batsman playing his 100th Test — to lead England to 555 for eight wickets at stumps on the second day of the first Test against India at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Saturday. Root (218, 19x4s, 2x6s), whose double ton […]
Cuttack: The death of Prafulla Biswal, the suspected main accused in the sensational Mahanga double murder case has triggered a fresh controversy with the BJP terming it a well-panned murder. The body of Prafulla was found near Nua Bandal Chhak in Tangi area of Cuttack last night. Tangi police who recovered the body claimed that […]
Jammu: The J&K police on Saturday arrested the self-styled chief of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LeM) from Jammu, officials said. He has been identified as Hidayatullah Malik, the chief of LeM which is a front organisation of proscribed terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). “Malik, a categorised terrorist from Shopian district has been arrested in a joint operation […]
Koraput: Furious and anguished family members of a man, who died during treatment at the Laxman Nayak Medical College in Koraput, sat with the body in front of the hospital on Friday night alleging serious negligence by doctors that led to his death. The family members have also lodged an FIR alleging criminal negligence on […]
Beijing: China’s space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released the image of Mars captured by Tianwen-1, Xinhua reported on Friday. The probe conducted its fourth orbital correction on Friday […]
Bhubaneswar: Even as the political pot in Odisha over MSP has attained the boiling point on Friday when BJD RS MP Sasmit Patra took pot-shots at BJP for not implementing the Swaminathan Commission report recommendations in Toto, Patra hit the rhetoric crescendo on the floor of the Upper House. Speaking loud and clear he claimed […]
Chennai: A great strokemaker himself, star all-rounder Ben Stokes is in awe of Joe Root’s ability to play spin bowling, saying on Saturday that half of England team’s batsmen can’t tackle the tweakers like their captain does. Playing in his 100th Test, Root compiled his fifth double century on the second day of the opening […]
Bhubaneswar: Distressed for a prolonged period over reasons best known to them, many people succumb to the mental duress and finally end their miseries by ending their lives. With as many as five cases of self-immolation bids in Odisha in less than three months, the Opposition has come down heavily on the police and administration […]
Bhubaneswar: Even though the Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal will turn three next month, the panel has failed to resolve the long-standing water sharing dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh, alleged Mahanadi Bachao Andolan on Saturday. Expressing resentment over the tribunal’s tardy response to the dispute, Sudarsan Das, the convenor of Mahanadi Bacho Andolan said, “The tribunal […]
Bhubaneswar: When it comes to Minimum Support Price (MSP) in Odisha, the ruling BJD goes with guns blazing at the Centre (be it UPA or NDA), but turns coy when it comes to biting the bullet. For which, nearly 48 per cent of the farmers in State are deprived of MSP benefit in the State. […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Bollywood actor Sunny Leone was questioned by the Kerala Police at a private resort in Thiruvananthapuram. The interrogation was conducted on a complaint filed by an event manager in Kochi in an alleged cheating case. R. Shiyas who conducts events in and around Kochi had filed a complaint with the Kerala DGP that Sunny […]
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