News from Odisha

Adelaide: India skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat against Australia in the first Test of the four-match series beginning Thursday at the Adelaide Oval. “We are going to have a bat. It looks a nice wicket, nice and hard. Runs on the board is priceless, more so away from home. Hopefully, […]

Baripada: Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a fake currency racket with arrest of two persons allegedly involved in the crime here in Mayurbhanj district. The accused identified as Rasbihari Rana and Rakhyahari Rana are two brothers. They belong to Bahadagoda of Jharkhand, police said. Police were tipped off about the transaction of Fake […]

New Delhi: Twitter is ending its experiment that encouraged users to quote tweet rather than retweet as the new feature did not go well with the users, the company announced on Thrusday. The micro-blogging platform will no longer automatically show the quote tweet (QT) prompt when users try to retweet on its platform. “Our goal with […]

Bhubaneswar: Sleepless nights, endless tears and the memories of their missing children. Who knows what these families are going through! Seems the only thing that has kept them alive is a rare hope to see their kids back home. Recalling the past horrors that still haunt many, two incidents from Bolangir district have rubbed salt […]

Gajapati: At a time when missing and subsequent deaths of children have triggered a debate on the alleged degrading law and order situation in Odisha, yet another eight-year-old boy has gone missing while he was playing near his house at Kumuti Sahi under Kashinagar NAC of Gajapati district since Wednesday evening. A complaint about the […]

It is John Abraham’s birthday today. Starting as a model and then venturing into Bollywood with Jism, the superhot hunk has come a long way. Incidentally, he came into movies at a time when models were not very successful as actors. From Dino Morea to Deepak Chopra many tried their hands at acting however could […]

New Delhi: With 24,010 fresh novel Coronavirus infections and 355 deaths in the past 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 99.56 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 94.89 lakh, on Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 99,56,557 […]

New Delhi: Oil marketing companies continued to hold back any change in the retail price of petrol and diesel continuing with their wait and watch stance that has kept the prices of two auto fuels static for the past 10 days. Accordingly, there was no change in retail price of auto fuels on Thursday with […]

New Delhi: In a bid to deliver a richer language experience to millions of its users, Google India on Thursday announced to let people toggle their Search results between English and four additional languages: Tamil, Telugu, Bangla and Marathi. The company said that over the next month, Search will start to show relevant content in […]

Balasore: Panic gripped residents at Lunapahi village in Balasore district after some explosive materials, believed to be parts of a missile that was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, fell in a farmland close to human settlement with a deafening noise on Wednesday night. The impact of the fallen object left 8 […]

Bhubaneswar: The Regional Meteorological Centre here has predicted a drop in minimum temperature from the next week onwards. However, foggy and chilly conditions have started to grip many interior areas of the State. On Wednesday, the lowest minimum temperature of 13 degree Celsius was observed in Phulbani, Sundargarh and the picturesque Daringbadi. Next in the […]

In the age of link-ups and break-ups, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza have been setting couple goals for a decade now. Before tying a knot in 2012 in a grand function that became the talk of the town, the couple dated in secrecy for more than nine years. Yes! Even the paparazzi couldn’t speculate their […]

Bhubaneswar: The daily Covid-19 count in Odisha continued its downward trend on Thursday. As many as 351 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours in the State which pushed the positive tally over 3.25 lakh. Of the fresh cases reported from 27 districts, 203 were related to quarantine while the remaining 148 are […]

Cuttack: The Odisha government on Thursday announced that Corona Warriors including doctors and other frontline health workers will get COVID-19 vaccine free of cost in the State. Informing this development, the State Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Das said that the vaccination against coronavirus is likely to begin from January 2021. While talking to […]

Pooja Gor and Raj Singh Arora maintained their silence on speculations around their split up doing rounds for a long time now. But recently, Pooja broke her silence to confirm that she and Raj have called it quits after a decade of dating. Actress Pooja Gor rose to fame with her soap Mann Kee Awaaz […]