News from Odisha

New Delhi: Google has introduced new updates for Chromebooks that help people with disabilities make their working environment accessible and productive. Now, the visually impaired can change the colour of the cursor to improve its visibility and add a personal touch to Chromebook. This feature is designed to help people with low vision and complements […]

Puri: Intensifying its protest against the Bagala Dharmashala land row, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch a Padyatra from Puri to Bhubaneswar and meet Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday. According to sources, the padytra will begin from Srimandir in Puri to the CM’s residence in Bhubaneswar. The members of the saffron party will […]

Bhubaneswar: The special CBI court in Delhi will hear the arguments on the quantum of sentence for Dilip Ray, the then Union Minister of State for Coal and others, convicted in the coal block allocation scam, today. The case pertains to allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL) […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 72,39,389 with 63,509 infections being reported in a day, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 63 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 87.05 per cent, according to the Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The coronavirus death toll climbed to 1,10,586 with […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he felt like a “Superman” after his experimental COVID-19 treatment and boasted about his new immunity to the disease which has claimed the lives of 216,000 Americans. Trump, who tested positive for COVID-19 on October 1 and was admitted to a military hospital for three nights and […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Wednesday reported 2604 new Covid-19 case while 15 persons succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, informed the State Health and Family Welfare Department. With this, the total positive caseloads in the State rose to 259541 and the death toll mounted to 1072, added the department. Of the new cases, […]

New Delhi: Britain’s largest nature conservation charity Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has bestowed the prestigious Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Nature Conservation on Ram Jakati for saving India’s vultures from certain extinction. In the 1990’s India’s vulture population was pushed to the brink of extinction due to the use of the […]

Berhampur: Vehicular movement between Digapahandi and Shergarh disrupted after a temporary culvert washed away near Sanakhemundi area here on Wednesday due to incessant rain. Extremely heavy rainfall triggered by a deep depression on Bay of Bengal has wreaked havoc in various districts of south Odisha. Earlier yesterday, the hours of downpour had caused a landslip […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded India’s Aarogya Setu app during COVID-19 virtual media briefing at Geneva on Tuesday. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the app helped city public health departments identify clusters and expand testing in the second worst affected country. “The Aarogya Setu app from India has been […]

Amitabh Bachchan today shared a tweet in which he pledged support to any campaign that works for the benefits of workers involved in manual scavenging. In his tweet, the Big B penned, “Events of the day move you beyond words .. tonight is one such day .. manual scavenging is an unconstitutional and illegal act […]

Kangana Ranaut is now gearing up to get back to her usual, slimmer figure after gaining 20 kgs for Thalaivi. The actress shared a related tweet earlier today. In her post, the Queen actress wrote, “I had gained 20kgs for Thalaivi, now that we are very close to completing it, need to go back to […]

Delhi: The Special CBI Court in Delhi on Wednesday reserved its verdict on quantum of punishment against Dilip Ray, the former Union Minister of State for Coal and others, who were convicted in the coal block allocation case, till October 26. On October 6, the Rouse Avenue Court had convicted Ray, two senior officials of […]

Tumkuru: The Tumkuru district police on Tuesday registered a case against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for her tweet against farmers who were protesting against the farm laws passed by the Parliament. Last week, a Tumkuru court had directed the local Kyatasandra police station to book Kangana Ranaut for her tweet on farmers. The ruling came […]

Yesterday leading Kollywood star Dhanush received a bomb threat at his residence in Abhiramapuram in Chennai. Similarly, another Tamil celebrity Vijayakanth also received a bomb threat at his residence in Virugambakkam. Immediately the police officers were notified. They conducted thorough research of Dhanush and Vijyakanth’s houses with the help of sniffer dogs. Later on, the threats […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday urged a Delhi court to award life imprisonment to former Union Minister of State (MoS) for Coal Dilip Ray and other convicts in a coal block allocation case. The court will pronounce the order on their sentencing on October 26. Ray, now a hotelier, was […]