News from Odisha

Washington: Amid ongoing tensions over the results of the US presidential election, Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg has mocked US President Donald Trump in his own words in the ultimate social media revenge. In response to Trump’s “stop the count” tweet, the 17-year-old said on the micro-blogging platform on Thursday: “So ridiculous. Donald must work […]

Bhubaneswar: Police have recovered the body of a labourer who was found dead on the premises of Utkal University campus here on Thursday night. The deceased, who was engaged in a construction work in the campus, has been identified as Budhuram Singh. According to sources, Budhuram was stabbed to death by a co-worker after a […]

San Francisco: Apple has released iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 updates with multiple new features including stunning new emoji. iOS and iPadOS 14.2 include new emoji 13 characters with options that include smiling face with tear, ninja, pinched fingers, anatomical heart, black cat, mammoth, polar bear, dodo, fly, bell pepper, tamale, bubble tea, potted plant, […]

Bhubaneswar: The coronavirus tally in Odisha has inched closer to 3 lakh-mark with the detection of 1494 new cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the overall Covid-19 infections surged to 298768 on Friday. The death toll mounted to 1393 as 15 more patients succumbed to the disease during the period, as per the […]

Bhubaneswar: Two inter-State robbers, who were involved in a major ATM loot case in Bhubaneswar, have been arrested by the Vizag police, Twin City Police Commissioner, Sudhanshu Sarangi said on Friday. While addressing a press conference, Sarangi informed that the two accused- Samarjyot Singh who hails from Punjab and Zafar Sadiq a native of Kerala […]

Abu Dhabi: Ace Indian cricketer Virat Kohli believes the length of the series amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic should be given a serious thought as staying in a bio-bubble for long periods does affect the mental health of the players. Kohli is currently leading Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 13 edition […]

New Dellhi: India Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday claimed that situation at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh remains tense and possibility of a war with China cannot be ruled out. “In the overall security calculus: border confrontations, transgressions, unprovoked tactical military actions — spiraling into a larger conflict […]

Washington: Scientists have found a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful novel coronavirus antibody fragments from llamas, which they say could be fashioned into inhalable therapeutics with the potential to prevent and treat COVID-19. These special llama antibodies, called nanobodies, are much smaller than human antibodies, according to the researchers from the University […]

Puri: It was celebration time at the Bhagat household in Bolpur, West Bengal after one of the senior members was reunited with the family on Thursday, 10 years after she went missing under mysterious circumstances. While the children were happy to find their mother back after a decade, Shankar Bhagat was speechless on seeing his […]

Berhampur: Bringing laurels for the State yet again, the government-run Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Berhampur has entered the Asia Book of Records for conceptualizing and designing the largest open-air scrap sculpture museum. The museum named ‘The Heart, Mind and Hand Show’ spreads over 10000 square metres and has been declared as the largest open-air […]

New Delhi: Around 4.39 crore ineligible/bogus ration cards have been weeded out across the country from 2013 to 2020 by state/UT governments, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said on Friday. These ration cards were cancelled as part of the technology-driven PDS reforms initiated across the country to modernise the Targeted […]

Cuttack: The on-going marital discord between BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty and his wife Varsha Priyadarshini took another turn after the Ollywood actress lodged a fresh complaint against her in-laws alleging that she has been ‘threatened’ to vacate the house. In the complaint lodged with the Purighat Police station in Cuttack on November 5, Varsha alleged […]

Malkangiri: Odisha’s Rajesh Mandal, who is an M.Tech degree holder from NIT Bhopal, left his lucrative job to follow his passion for wildlife. MV 79, a village in the remote Malkangiri district of Odisha surrounded by forest and wild animals is where Mandal was born and brought-up. Since his childhood, Mandal developed a strong affinity […]

Washington: US courts have dismissed Trump campaign’s lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia related to alleged electoral malpractice. In Michigan, the campaign had sought to stop counting of absentee ballots, while in Georgia it had alleged that even improper ballots were being counted. Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens Thursday rejected the lawsuit, arguing that […]

New York: Researchers have found that children and adults produce different types and amounts of antibodies in response to novel coronavirus infection. The differences in antibodies suggest the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection and immune response is distinct in children and most children easily clear the virus from their bodies, the study published in journal Nature […]