News from Odisha

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police on Wednesday busted an illegal factory allegedly engaged in manufacturing adulterated chili and turmeric powder. The unit was unearthed following a raid at Malgodown area in the city, police said. As per reports, huge quantities of articles used for the adulteration were seized during the raid. It is pertinent to mention […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is planning to provide small fish to children under the age of six, pregnant and nursing women, and adolescent girls as part of the supplementary nutrition programme, officials said on Wednesday. The Odisha government has signed an agreement with non-profit WorldFish for piloting the project at 50 anganwadi centres in the […]

Rourkela: In yet another instance of GST fraud in the Steel City of Rourkela, a delivery agent working with a private company received a summon notice for alleged tax fraud worth a whopping Rs 10 lakh. Preliminary investigations reveal that a fake company, Manorama Trading, was set up in the name of the delivery agent […]

New Delhi: In a major development, the Supreme Court has ordered the release of Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on bail. A vacation bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee also granted interim bail to two others, Nitish Sarda and Parveen Rajesh Singh, on personal bond of Rs 50,000 each. Justice Chandrachud said […]

‘Arnab Is Back’ trends on Twitter after the Supreme Court’s ordered to release Republic TV Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami today. Ever since the order of his release, people across the country have started celebrations. Netizens took no time to trend #ArnabIsBack. While some are taking to social media to express their happiness over the ruling, some […]

PM Modi Inaugurates New Office-cum-residential Complex of Cuttack Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Cuttack: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated a new state-of-the-art office-cum-residential complex of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) bench in Cuttack via video conferencing. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, also known as ITAT, is an important statutory body in the field […]

Bhubaneswar: In view of rising Covid-19 cases, the Commissionerate Police on Friday issued fresh guidelines for marriage and funeral related functions. The CP has made it mandatory for people to…

Bhubaneswar: A government official sustained critical injuries after the car he was travelling fell into a trench dug for the construction of a drain in Bhubaneswar. The incident occurred between the stretch of Capital Hospital and AG square chhak in the afternoon. Though the exact reason behind the accident is still unclear, the injured man […]

New Delhi: Indian vaccines offer a lot of hope, due to various factors including a good safety signal, display of immunogenicity and capability of using the current storage infrastructure, said AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in an exclusive interview with IANS. Recently, drug company Pfizer announced that its vaccine candidate for Covid-19 is more than 90 […]

Puri: Construction of attires for the much-awaited Nagarjuna Besha of Lord Jagannath is undergoing at full speed. Sculptors and artisans are preparing various weapons of the Lord including dagger, shield and sword for the special avatar in the pilgrim city. “The initiation ceremony for the rare ritual of the Lords commenced from Dusshera and a […]

Sambalpur: The Cyber Police here arrested two youths including an engineering graduate on charges of running a fake website and duping job seekers by publishing fake recruitment notification in the name of WESCO. One of the accused, Sunil Mishra, had passed electrical engineering from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla in 2018 while […]

A hilarious video of a man putting his mask on a friend’s face, who was talking to a reporter, is going viral. The viral video which took place amidst the seriousness of the Bihar elections is leaving netizens in splits. In Lallantop’s video, a man is talking about elections when the reporter asks if he […]

Moscow: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has shown 92 per cent efficacy in preventing COVID-19, according to interim trial results announced by the country’s health ministry on Wednesday. The announcement follows results unveiled earlier this week by vaccine developers Pfizer and BioNTech, who said their vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective at preventing COVID-19. […]

Bhubaneswar: Men, women, children and even elderly people have been living under house arrest like conditions for the last 11 days at the OTV and Tarang studio complex at Sarua in Khordha district. Some contractual labourers have been staging dharna in front of the studio’s gate and locked the front and the back gates of […]

New Delhi: In a scathing remark to the Maharashtra government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked “..is this is what our state governments will do to those who have to be nailed…? While granting bail to Arnab Goswami, the Editor-In-Chief of Republic TV, Justice DY Chandrachud said, “Don’t watch the channel of you don’t like. […]