News from Odisha

The pair of Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande became a household name through their portrayal of Manav and Archana in Ekta Kapoor’s hit serial Pavitra Rishta. They fell in love during the making of this serial and even participated together as independent contestants in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 4. nazdikiyan yaa ho dooriyanbas pyaar […]

Mumbai: By now every season, it is all about evictions and surviving them — at least, that is what Bigg Boss fans used to expect. The ongoing season 14, however, has been different. The drama of elimination is yet to kick in. Instead of people leaving, contestants from past seasons as well as eliminated housemates […]

Malkangiri: Tension ran high at different mandis in Malkangiri and Sambalpur districts on Tuesday with a large number of farmers alleging massive irregularities in the paddy procurement process. Raising slogans against discrepancies in the procurement of paddy crop, hundreds of farmers at MV-72 mandi in Malkangiri demanded intervention of the district administration and State Government […]

London: A new variant of coronavirus has been found which is growing faster in some parts of England, British MPs have been told. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said at least 60 different local authorities had recorded Covid infections caused by the new variant, the BBC reported on Monday. He said the World Health Organization had […]

Understanding High Fashion is not everyone’s cup of tea but sometimes it gets too much for the public to comprehend. Recently, Luxury brand Gucci also stirred up a hullabaloo with a trend that left many saying, ‘But Why?’ It happened so that American-Iranian novelist Porochista Khakpour shared a picture of the ‘upside-down’ cat-eye trend which […]

New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi in his letter to Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury made it clear that no winter session of Parliament will be convened due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Budget Session is likely to be called in January 2021. Chowdhury, in his letter to Lok […]

The Kapil Sharma Show that aired on Sunday last weekend welcomed IPL cricketers Axar Patel, Nitish Rana, Rahul Mewatiya, and Ravi Bishnoi. It was all fun and masti as Kapil along with his colleagues Kiku Sharda and Krushna Abhishek entertained the guests as well as the audience. Kapil asked each of them about their favorite […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the ongoing protest in Bhubaneswar over demands to regularise the jobs, two Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) workers Tuesday tried to set themselves on fire by pouring kerosene on their bodies at Master Canteen square, close to the protest-site. They were however overpowered by other protesting ANM workers and safely rescued from what could […]

New Delhi: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said its partnership with Jio Platforms will help support millions of small businesses in India. Zuckerberg made the remark during a conversation with Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries at the first Facebook Fuel for India 2020 event. “At Facebook, we are in the business […]

New Delhi: Amid the pandemic, the daily time spent on smartphones has increased by 25 per cent on average in India, a new study claimed on Monday. While 66 per cent of Indians believe smartphone improves their quality of life, nearly 70 per cent of Indians feel that if their smartphone usage continues to increase, […]

Nayagarh: At a time when the State is boiling over rising cases of atrocities against minors and safety of girl children, especially in the backdrop of the alleged kidnapping and murder of Pari, another girl from Nayagarh district who had been missing for the past few days was found dead on Tuesday. As per reports, […]

Bhubaneswar: BJP State president Samir Mohanty has accused the Congress party of colluding with the State government over the Pari murder case. “Minister Arun Sahoo is protecting the prime accused in Pari murder case while the State government is shielding the Minister. It is surprising that the Congress unit in the State is shielding the […]

Washington: NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) have selected three astronauts, including Indian-American Raja Chari, to serve as crew members for SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which is expected to launch in the autumn of 2021. Raja Chari will serve as commander while NASA’s Tom Marshburn will be pilot and ESA’s […]

Bhubaneswar: Leader of Opposition Pradipta Naik has written a letter to CM Naveen Patnaik requesting him to consider the ‘genuine’ demands of the health workers who were engaged in the Covid Care Homes (CCH) in the State, and now have been disengaged from the services. The LoP urged Patnaik to reconsider the decision of the […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 300 people were tested positive for Covid-19 in Odisha in the last 24 hours, while four patients died while undergoing treatment at various hospitals during the period, as per the data revealed by the State Health department. With the fresh cases, the total coronavirus tally in the State rose to 324389 […]