News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: A delegation of servitors from Puri Lord Jagannath Temple, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra met Union Culture Minister Prahalad Singh Patel and thanked him for withdrawing contentious Heritage by-laws for Puri Srimandir. The Union Ministry of Culture on Monday had directed the National Monument Authority (NMA) to withdraw the […]

Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed that the country is ready to “re-engage” with the UN Human Rights Council, following the 2018 withdrawal by the former Donald Trump administration which accused the body of being “hypocritical and self-serving”. In a series of tweet confirming the move, Blinken said: The UN Human Rights […]

Dehradun: Two more bodies of the around 170 missing in the Uttarakhand disaster were recovered from the debris in Raini village on Tuesday, while rescuers worked through tonnes of muck and slush to rescue around 30 workers trapped in a tunnel at a power project site in Tapovan. Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, who reached […]

Nabarangpur: Two days after the death of an undertrial prisoner in Puri, an inmate of Nabarangpur sub-jail died while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Ramadhara Bhotra of Dasapaiguda village under Kodinga police station. According to sources, Bhotra fell ill on Monday evening following and was admitted to […]

New Delhi: Continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 9,110 new infections and 78 deaths in the last 24 hours on Monday, the lowest in nine months so far, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data said. The overall tally mounted to 1,08,47,304 while the COVID-19 death toll reached […]

Bhubaneswar: While continuing its efforts to  establish the identity of the woman whose headless body was recovered on the outskirts of the city last Thursday, the Commissionerate Police has decided to store the DNA fingerprint of the deceased which can be used to establish link with any of her relative/claimant if they come forward in […]

Mumbai: Evicted contestant Jasmin Bhasin has opened up about her relationship with Bigg Boss 14 housemate Aly Goni. She hopes that her blossoming romance with him grows into something more beautiful and great things happen. Aly entered the ongoing season of Bigg Boss a few weeks after the show began to lend support to his […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar on Monday ordered a probe into the allegations made by the wife of a sepoy that her husband was forced to attempt suicide after…

Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra were spotted a day ago at Karan Johar’s home for the birthday bash of Yash and Roohi. Incidentally, both of them left in the same car which once again indicated that something is brewing between the two.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by ETimes (@etimes) […]

New Delhi: Twitter has reached out to Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for a formal dialogue to resolve the deadlock over the removal of bad accounts amid the ongoing farmer protests. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has sent three notices to Twitter, the latest one asking the company to block 1,178 accounts […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday got emotional while bidding farewell to senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in the Rajya Sabha. Azad, the Leader of Opposition, is one among the four members retiring from the Upper House this month. The Prime Minister, while referring to Azad’s contribution to the politics and the […]

Beijing: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has unveiled its flagship smartphone “Mi 11” in the global market through a virtual event that features Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform, making it one of the first smartphones to come with this processor. The smartphone comes in two storage variants — 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB at Euro 749 and […]

Bengaluru: NSE Nifty is up 14 times in 25 years, traversing its journey from 1,107 to 15,000 points mark in the last 25 years. For the first time in history, the Nifty has closed above the psychological mark of 15,000 on February 8, 2021. According to a report by Motilal Oswal Financial Services, the Nifty […]

Gajapati: Suspicion over practicing black magic triggered a firing in Jadingi village under Adaba police limits in Gajapati district on Monday morning. Though the victim, identified as Damburudhara Majhi, had a narrow escape as the bullets fired at him missed target, he suffered multiple injuries after the assailants attacked him with stones and sticks. According […]

Rocking Star Yash who is gearing up for the release of KGF: Chapter 2 went viral on the internet yet again as he met Indian cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal recently. Yash and his wife Rashika Pandit spent some time with Yuzvendra and Yuzi’s choreographer wife Dhanashree in Bengaluru. The picture of the celebrity couples posing together […]