News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Mercury is going to dip further and the on-going cold wave condition in the State will prevail ahead of the Christmas celebrations, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated on Saturday. The Regional Meteorological office in Bhubaneswar attributed the prevailing cold conditions to the flow of northerly winds sweeping the State. The minimum temperature fell […]

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Railways on Saturday issued a clarification on media reports that provision of issuing waitlisted tickets will be discontinued. In a statement, the Indian Railways stated that, “Efforts are being made to increase the capacity to make berths available on demand. This would reduce the possibility of passengers getting waitlisted. There is no […]

Madrid: Spain will begin a vaccination programme against the novel coronavirus from December 27 onwards, confirmed the country’s Health Minister Salvador Illa on Friday. The programme will first administer the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine, which will begin arriving in the country on December 26, reports Xinhua news agency. “If Europe has agreed that vaccination begins in […]

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha reported 356 fresh Covid-19 cases taking the total tally to 3,25,861 on Saturday.  Of the fresh cases, 199 are from quarantine and 157 are local contact cases, informed Information & Public Relations Department. None of the districts reported more than 50 cases. Khordha registered the highest 41 cases […]

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha police intensifying its measures against drunken driving and other violations under MV Act, four persons in Sambalpur have been prosecuted for driving vehicles under the influence of alcohol. As per reports, the drunken drivers were penalised in a joint enforcement conducted by the RTO and police in the past two days as […]

Rourkela: As many as a dozen of gamblers were arrested in one of the biggest anti-gambling drives by the Odisha Police ahead of the New Year in the Steel City on Saturday. The police also seized over Rs 12.27 lakh in cash, two cars, five bikes, mobile phones and seven packets of playing cards from […]

Mumbai: Choreographer-filmmaker and director Remo D’Souza, who was admitted to Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai after suffering a heart attack, has been discharged. Remo shared a video on Instagram after returning home from hospital, thanking all for their love and prayers. “Thank you all for the love , prayers and blessings I am back… thank you […]

The famous YouTuber Carry Minati is all set to share screen space with Bollywood biggies Amitabh Bachchan and Ajay Devgn. The young internet sensation will be seen with the B-town A-listers in Mayday which will also star Southern diva Rakul Preet Singh. Incidentally, the Singham actor is himself directing and producing this flick. Confirming the […]

New Delhi: The national in-charge of National Students Union of India’s (NSUI), Congress’ students wing, Ruchi Gupta resigned from the party on Saturday, accusing party’s General Secretary (Organisation) K. C. Venugopal of delaying the reorganisation of several units and damaging the party. Gupta took to Twitter announcing her resignation from the party. In the internal […]

Puri: In a move likely to boost the accommodation facilities for devotees visiting Puri to get a glimpse of Mahaprabhu Jagannath, the district administration will soon come up with a low-cost lodging centre ‘Bhakta Niwas’ for those seeking a place of stay in the pilgrim town. As per the plans, already 9 to 10 acres […]

Adelaide: Australia scored a sensational eight-wicket victory against India on the third day of the first Test on Saturday, to take a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series at the Adelaide Oval. After their pace bowlers Pat Cummins (4/21) and Josh Hazlewood (5/8) caused a carnage to skittle out India for 36, their lowest Test […]

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden and wife Jill will be given vaccination against novel coronavirus publicly on Monday. The announcement was made on Friday night by Jen Psaki, the Biden administration’s White House Press Secretary, The Hill news website reported. According to the team, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive her vaccine next week. The […]

Popular standup comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath has married telly and film actor Sulagna Panigrahi. The couple took to Instagram to share photos from their wedding ceremony. Sharing their wedding pictures on Instagram, Biswa said, “Biswa Married Aadmi”. Sulagna also shared some glimpse of their wedding, captioned as, “Pic 1- Watching our single life burn away. […]

India suffered a massive defeat at the hands of Australia in the first Test at Adelaide on Saturday. And this again gave a reason to the netizens to troll Anushka Sharma. While Virat Kohli being the Indian skipper morally is responsible for this defeat, trolling and slamming the Sultan actress can never be justified. Incidentally, […]

Love stories between cricketers and actors are not new. From Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma to Zaheer Khan-Sagarika Ghatge, the list goes on. A few months back, relationship rumours between Anupama Parameswaran and JaspritBumrah also spread like wildfire. Recently, the Premam star spilled some beans on her marriage plans amidst all the link-up rumours. When asked in […]