News from Odisha

Hyderabad: Several workers in Telangana were injured when a major fire broke out on Saturday in a chemical factory in an industrial area of Hyderabad. Several workers in #Telangana were injured when a major fire broke out on Saturday in a chemical factory in an industrial area of #Hyderabad. pic.twitter.com/3fxwVoisL6 — IANS Tweets (@ians_india) December […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the farmers camping in the national capital are fighting with vim and vigour to, what they call, maintaining the sanctity of MSP (Minimum Support Price), a big blooper by the Odisha government with regard to MSP has come to the fore. The eye-popping revelation is Odisha government has neither provided […]

Bhubaneswar: A four-member team of doctors from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) at Puducherry is monitoring the health condition of eminent litterateur Manoj Das who has been under treatment for last three months due to old-age related ailments. Union Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Pratap Chandra Sarangi […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to impart online refresher training and orientation to professors of the State universities. The professors will receive the training from top Indian universities like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. State Higher Education department secretary Saswat Mishra has written to the top universities about the proposal. […]

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the time table for the Civil Services (Main) Examination that is scheduled to be held in the month of January next year. As per a notification issued by the Commission, the Civil Services Mains Exam will be held in two sessions – Forenoon Session and […]

New Delhi: The Centre on Saturday said that all states except Tamil Nadu have availed benefits of “Special Assistance to States for Capital Expenditure”. The scheme is aimed at boosting capital expenditure by the state governments, who are facing a difficult financial environment this year due to the shortfall in tax revenue arising from the […]

Netflix premiered Torbaaz starring Sanjay Dutt, Rahul Dev, and Nargis Fakhri on Friday and the netizens reviews are now out! The action thriller which was earlier scheduled for a theatrical release settled for an OTT release owing to the pandemic. Set in an Afghanistan refugee camp, the story revolves around an ex-army doctor who seeks […]

Bhubaneswar: Amidst nation-wide agitation by various farmers’ unions for total rollback of the contentious farm laws recently enacted by the Centre, and buzz in the political circles on the stand of Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) over the issue, the ruling party in the State has clarified its stand, saying that it has always been […]

New York: An Indian-origin man named Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh — a former engineer with Cisco — was sentenced this week to two years in prison for accessing Cisco’s network without authorisation after he left the company and then destroying servers that hosted infrastructure for the Cisco Webex Teams service. According to a report from zdnet.com, […]

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday chaired an event to mark Universal Health Coverage and emphasised that Covid-19 has greatly magnified the need for building resilient health care systems and ensuring their equitable access to all without discrimination. “We must do away with the status quo that got us here and […]

London: The Oxford University and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is set to be used for a mix and match trial with Russia’s Sputnik vaccine against the novel coronavirus. The two sets of experts are to join forces to explore if a combination of the two jabs, both using a benign virus called adenovirus, could prove effective […]

New Delhi: Various educational institutions, Central universities, state governments and Union Territories are constituting task forces at their respective levels to implement the new National Education Policy (NEP) formulated by the Central government. The Union Education Ministry has welcomed this initiative taken by the educational institutions. A task force has also been formed in Central […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has attracted new investments of over Rs 1 lakh crore across multiple sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic, informed Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday. Addressing the 93rd Annual general meeting of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) on virtual platform, the CM said, “Not only new investments, but Odisha is […]

Bhubaneswar: Speculations are doing rounds that a possible Cabinet reshuffle for the first time in the fifth term of Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha is likely to take place in the next couple of days. If things go well, the State would witness Naveen’s Cabinet in a new look in the New Year. Sources closed […]

Gurugram: Freedom fighter Jagram Yadav, the gunner of iconic revolutionary Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, died in Gurugram on Saturday morning. He was 97. Yadav died on Saturday morning at his residence in Sector 15, where he was staying with his two sons Colonel O.P. Yadav, Ashok Yadav and daughters Sushila and Omwati. The freedom fighter […]