News from Odisha

The Kapil Sharma Show’s Bharti Singh was spotted outside the home of the famous standup comedian Kapil recently. Paps spotted her leaving Kapil’s house and even interacted with her. Bharti thanked the paparazzi for supporting her and even confirmed that she is returning to The Kapil Sharma Show. During the interaction, Bharti Singh said that […]

Bhubaneswar: The Centre is hoping that the toll income may rise up to Rs 1.34 lakh crore in five years using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that the Government has finalised GPS-based(Global Positioning System) technology toll collection to ensure seamless movement […]

New Delhi: In a big relief to exporters, the government had decided to credit all duty drawback claims made by them within a period of three days. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has instructed all zones under its jurisdiction to immediately take necessary action that will facilitate credit of drawback claims […]

Bhubaneswar: There has been no substantial progress in the on-going investigation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to nab the ‘real culprit’ involved in the alleged rape and brutal murder of the five-year-old girl from Nayagarh district, observed the Orissa High Court on Thursday. The Court’s observation came following the submission of a status report […]

New Delhi: While the Central Government has geared up for the vaccination drive, more than 50 per cenr of India’s population has expressed caution towards taking the coronavirus vaccine, a survey revealed on Thursday. The survey holds importance at a time when questions are being raised on both the safety and efficacy of the vaccines […]

Bhubaneswar: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday directed Universities to ensure the compliance of its previous order in respect of refund on academic calendar for the first year Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate students for the Session 2020-21 in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Taking stern note of several references in the form of RTI applications/ complaints/ […]

Rourkela: Police on Thursday arrested four persons including three women on charges of kidnapping a five-year-old boy from Rourkela railway station area. The cops have reportedly rescued the boy from Medinipur area of the neighbouring West Bengal. As per reports, the accused had abducted the boy from the railway station area on December 4. Later, […]

Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has sent a notice to filmmaker Karan Johar in connection with the alleged drug party at his residence in 2019 in which several Bollywood personalities were seen in a viral video. An NCB official said that a notice has been given with regard to the video which was in […]

Kolkata: Hours after Trinamool Congress heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the party’s primary membership, many dissident leaders and activists started stepping down from their respective party posts in West Bengal on Thursday. In a twin blow to the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, along with Adhikari, Jitendra Tiwari also resigned from the post of chairman of […]

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: At a time when GST tax frauds continue to surface on a regular basis from Rourkela, instances of tax evasion have also started coming to the fore from various other parts of Odisha. One Bigyan Swain of Pitamberpur in Paradip has reportedly been served notice for Rs 10 crore tax fraud. Swain has been […]

Guwahati: The ruling BJP along with the allies would retain power in Assam and it would secure “at least 100 seats” in the next year’s election to the 126-member state Assembly, the party’s National Vice-President Baijayant Jay Panda claimed on Thursday. Panda, who is the Assam in-charge for the saffron party, while talking to the […]

Nabarangpur: Vigilance officials on Thursday detained Sarat Kumar Majhi, In-charge Executive Engineer of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Nabarangpur and two other Executive Engineers of the department named Baikuntanath Behera and Pramod Kumar Pradhan on charges of carrying unaccounted cash in their official vehicle. Acting on a complaint, sleuths of the anti-corruption agency intercepted a […]

New Delhi: Reaching out to farmers protesting the three farm laws for the last 22 days, Union Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar has written a letter to them saying the minimum support price (MSP) is going to continue. In his eight-page emotional letter to farmers, Tomar said that most of the farmers are happy […]

Cuttack: A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment on Thursday by a special court in Cuttack that convicted him of raping a girl. The special POCSO court also fined Rama Munda alias Rama Laguri Rs 10,000, besides directing him to provide a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the survivor’s family. Judge […]

New Delhi: A medium-intensity earthquake of magnitude 4.2 hit Alwar district in Rajasthan on Thursday, tremors of which were felt in Delhi-NCR, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences’ NCS, the epicentre of the quake was Alwar in Rajasthan. The earthquake of magnitude 4.2 occurred at 11.46 pm […]