News from Odisha

Bolangir: The police on Saturday detained two more persons, reportedly residents from outside the district, in connection with the gruesome massacre of six members of a family which came to light on Wednesday. With this, the number of the detainees in the case so far has gone up to four. According to sources, the police […]

Bhubaneswar: Tension gripped the Old Town area in Bhubaneswar after several devotees staged an impromptu agitation protesting the decision of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ban the rituals of ‘Paya Sraddha’ & ‘Pinda Dana’ at the Bindusagar Lake and near Lingaraj Temple in the city today. Two platoons of police force was rushed in […]

Quetta: An earthquake of 5.4 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted Balochistan province in Pakistan on Saturday, informed the country’s National Seismic Monitoring Centre. However, no damage has been reported yet. According to the centre, the quake’s epicentre was located 38 km northeast of provincial capital of Quetta and its focal depth was determined as […]

New Delhi: Addressing the Armed Forces at Longewala Post in Jaisalmer of Rajasthan on the occasion of Diwali on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sending clear message to the neighbouring countries said that India believes in the policy of understanding and making others understand. But it gives a fierce reply if anybody tries to judge […]

Samantha Akkineni recently mesmerised the audience when she turned a host for Bigg Boss Dusshera special and she is all set to take up the role with her own show. Samantha revealed the promo of the first episode of her own talk show, Sam Jam and her first guest is the South’s most eligible bachelor, […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Covid-19 death toll surged past 1500 on Saturday as 15 more patients undergoing treatment at various hospitals succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours. The total fatalities in Odisha now stand at 1,510, as per the data released by State Health And Family Welfare (H&HW) Department. With 902 fresh cases during […]

Gajapati: Despite the Odisha government’s claims about a plethora of welfare schemes aimed at providing better healthcare to the people, instances of lack of basic medical facilities for expecting mothers have become a regular affair in the State. In another such instance earlier on Saturday, a woman delivered a baby in the middle of a […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch arrested two arms smugglers following a raid near Sikharghat bridge under Niali police limits in Cuttack district on Friday. The…

New Delhi: The Union government extended the tenure of the Enforcement Directorate chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra by one year after modifying his appointment order that was issued in 2018, officials said. 60-year-old Mishra is a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Income Tax cadre and was appointed the Enforcement Directorate chief on November 19, […]

Malkangiri:  A girl from the tribal dominated Kadamguda village, under the Mathili police limits of the district, who had gone missing since childhood, returned home from Delhi after 12 long years, in a heart-warming case of lost and found. According to sources, Tulsi Bhumia went missing from Rourkela where her family members worked as migrant […]

Bigg Boss 14 contestants are now turning romantic. Be it the Karva Chauth celebration of Rubina Dilaik and Abhinav Shukla or Aly Goni and Jasmin Bhasin’s lovey-dovey vibes, love certainly is in the air for the inmates. The heartfelt proposal from Rahul Vaidya for his girlfriend Disha Parmar on her birthday recently left the viewers […]

Washington: Scientists have found a key factor which may explain why the novel coronavirus predominantly affects adults and older people while seeming to spare younger children, an advance that may lead to the development of new treatment strategies for COVID-19. According to the researchers, including those from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in the […]

New Delhi: Following a resounding victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Manipur by-elections, party national vice-president Baijayant Jay Panda has turned his attention to Delhi and Assam where he has been appointed as the party’s State in-charge. Speaking to OTV on the new responsibility the party has bestowed on him, […]

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released applications for recruitment against 35 vacancies for various posts including public health specialist Grade- III, assistant professor, tutor, medical officer, staff nurse, and assistant director on its official website. As per the notification released by UPSC, the last date to apply is December 3, 2020. Interested and eligible […]

Bhubaneswar: Amidst the rising Covid-19 cases and imposition of restrictions in several parts of the country, the Indian Railways on Friday said that there is no plan to curtail or…