News from Odisha

Bengaluru: Global med-tech company Siemens Healthineers on Tuesday said it plans to invest Rs 1,300 crore over the next five years in an innovation hub in Bengaluru. The investment aims to make India a manufacturing centre for the company’s emerging market products. The innovation hub will be housed in a new campus that will combine […]

Prabhas celebrates his birthday on 23rd October. And to mark this occasion, Baahubali: The Conclusion will be re-released across 16 cities in the USA. It was the Baahubali franchise that made Prabhas a national star and gave him international recognition. The release of Baahubali 2 will be a big treat for the Rebel star fans […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Capital of Odisha on Tuesday logged 229 new cases of Covid-19 taking the total virus infections in the city to 27441. 182 are local contact cases while 47 infections have been reported from quarantine in the last 24 hours. With 307 new recoveries, the total number of recovered cases in the capital […]

Mumbai: Amrish Puri’s Chaudhary Baldev Singh letting go of his daughter’s hands with “Jaa Simran jaa” became a celebrated symbol of love’s victory over familial resistance in Hindi cinema, but many in the “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” team, including the late producer Yash Chopra, initially felt the film’s ending was a “cliche”, recalls cinematographer Manmohan […]

Ever since the news of Sanjay Dutt’s battling Lung Cancer has broke out, several reports and speculations are doing the rounds stating that the actor has only ‘a few months to live’ which has concerned the fans. Finally, the family reacted to all these rumours and revealed details about his treatment. “The news was like […]

Puri: Putting an end to the long wait which the devotees of Lord Jagannath had to endure to get their hands on the holy Abadha (Mahaprasad), the Sri Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has finally decided to resume selling of Abadha in the Srimandir, only during month of Kartik. Krushnachandra Pratihari, the Secretary of Suara-Mahasura Nijog […]

Athagarh: Unidentified miscreants looted a Grahak Seva Kendra of SBI here late night on Monday. As per the complaint registered by Suresh Acharya, a resident of Balisasan of Athagarh area, some unknown people barged into his house where he had set up a customer service kiosk of the State Bank and decamped away with property […]

New Delhi: Since the launch of the ‘National Deworming Day’ in 2015, 14 states have shown a reduction in worm infections prevalent among children while nine states showed a substantial decline, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The National Deworming Day (NDD), advised by the World Health Organization, is meant to eliminate worm infestation among […]

Patna: A massive fire broke out at the state Secretariat here, resulting in the destruction of files, records and documents of the Bihar Rural Development Department, even as the opposition RJD on Tuesday smelt a conspiracy to “destroy evidence of scams during the NDA rule”. According to fire official, the blaze broke out around 11.30 […]

Bhubaneswar: At least six persons were killed while 20 others sustained multiple injuries in separate road mishaps reported from different parts of Odisha on Tuesday. In Mayurbhanj, three persons lost their lives after being crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck. The trio was reportedly travelling in a two wheeler when a trawler hit […]

New Delhi: Patients who have recovered from Covid-19 can again get infected by the virus once the antibodies of the viral disease starts depleting, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Tuesday. “According to the Centre for Disease Control (USA), you call it a reinfection (of Covid-19) if the person is reinfected after […]

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance officials on Tuesday raided an assistant executive engineer in the capital city on charges of accumulating property disproportionate to his known sources of income. As per sources, teams of the anti-corruption wing conducted raids to detect disproportionate assets of Bhubaneswar GPH Division-II assistant executive engineer Rabindra Nath Pradhan. The procedure was initiated based […]

Bhubaneswar: A delegation of the BJP on Tuesday moved the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) alleging violation of the model code of conduct (MCC) which is now in force for the ensuing by-election in the Balasore Sadar Assembly Constituency. The five-member delegation of BJP led by Jatin Mohanty submitted a memorandum and alleged that despite guidelines, […]

Bhubaneswar: After a brief dry spell, several parts of Odisha will experience heavy to very heavy rainfall activity in the next three days, predicted India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday. As per the latest weather bulletin, a Low Pressure area has formed under the influence of a cyclonic circulation over central parts of Bay of […]

New Delhi: With the onset of the festival season, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said this is not the time to be careless as the novel coronavirus is still around and even a small negligence can dampen the festive spirit. In his seventh address to the nation following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]