News from Odisha

Balasore: Hours after the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) formally announced its candidate for the upcoming by-elections to Balasore Sadar constituency, massive infighting and protest erupted in the area. Thousands of supporters of district BJD president and former minister Rabindra Jena staged agitation outside his office near OT Road opposing the candidature of Swarup Kumar Das […]

Berhampur: Ganjam Police busted dozens of gambling dens in different places and arrested 216 gambles in the district in last fifteen days. In this connection police has registered as many as 32 cases and sized more than Rs 15 lakh. With Durga Puja and Kumar Purnima in sight, gambling has been rampant in Ganjam and […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asked his council of ministers to apprise him of at least five important achievements made by their respective departments. Patnaik, in a letter…

Bhadrak: In what is believed to be a retributory attack, alleged members of a local coal mafia set the car of a person ablaze after suspecting him to be a police informer at Marpur village here on Monday night. The owner of the car has been identified as one Pratap Kumar Behera. According to reports, […]

Mirzapur : The Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch investigating the television rating points (TRPs) scam has arrested Vinay Tripathi, a former employee of the Hansa Research Group, from Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district. Tripathi, who was arrested on Monday evening, is the fifth person to be arrested in the case. He will be produced in the local […]

New Delhi: India’s tally on Tuesday mounted to 71,75,880 cases with a spike of 55,342 coronavirus cases, the lowest since August. India recorded around 55,000 cases on July 31 (55,078), August 4 (52,050) and August 18 (55,079). India is showing a trend of declining average daily cases over the past five weeks. After a month, […]

Dhenkanal: In another situation pointing fingers at the alleged mismanagement by the authorities, a coronavirus-infected patient Duryodhan Behera of Barada village here has reportedly gone missing from a Covid hospital, forcing the family members to run from pillar to post in search of him. According to Behera’s kin, he was admitted to the dedicated Covid […]

Bhubaneswar: The Regional Meteorological Department has predicted light to moderate rain along with thundershowers over many places in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack today. As per the forecast, the cities will witness one or two spells of intense (2-3 cm/hr) rainfall till 12.30 pm today. #Nowcast Warning for capital city area #Bhubaneswar & […]

New Delhi: Paytm on Tuesday announced the same-day settlement facility for all kinds of fund transfers on its payment gateway that will help businesses that depend upon immediate availability of funds to pay down-stream partners. The feature can be accessed from Paytm Merchant Dashboard or Paytm for Business app. The minimum amount that can be […]

Hyderabad: Die-hard Donald Trump fan Bussa Krishna, who used to worship him like a god, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday after being concerned about the US President’s health condition following his Covid-19 infection. The 38-year-old collapsed while having tea at his relative’s residence at Toopran area in Medak district of Telangana. He was taken […]

Bhubaneswar: In a declining trend, Odisha has registered 2275 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the lowest daily-cases in several weeks, pushing the virus tally to 256937 on Tuesday. Of the fresh cases, 1318 patients are from quarantine while 957 are local contact cases, informed State I&PR department. As many as seven […]

Alia Bhatt is back at the gym. And it seems she is glad to hit the gym after doing workout sessions at home during the lockdown. Her latest Instagram session shows her bestie Akansha Ranjan doing workout holding dumbbells in her hand. The Gully Boy actress captioned it, “Let’s do it.” Alia also tagged her […]

New Delhi: The prolonged closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India may cause a loss of over USD 400 billion in the country’s future earnings, besides substantial learning losses, according to a World Bank report. South Asia region stands to lose USD 622 billion from the school closures in the present scenario […]

Tokyo: Scientists have estimated that the age of an individual does not indicate how likely they are to be infected by Covid-19, however, the development of symptoms, the progression of the disease, and mortality are age-dependent. There have been a large number of deaths due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and it has been shown […]

After triggering controversy with his views on dictatorship, Vijay Deverakonda hit back once again a couple of days ago. Albeit, this time he is hitting the dart wheel. The South Indian superstar shared a video clip of himself aiming the dart perfectly in the middle with an ax. After accomplishing the task the cool actor […]