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Summer is here to fill your days with fun but spending hours in the pool, playing at the beach, wearing all those light, fashionable dresses, reunion with family , friends and doing all those crazy things – clicking pictures, taking selfies with your loved ones makes the season unique and special but at the same […]

Puri: Pre-poll violence continued to mar Odisha elections 2019 with BJP candidate for Kakatpur Assembly constituency, Rabi Mallick being latest victim. Mallick was allegedly detained and attacked by supporters of his rival party. The incident occurred when he had gone to Srirampur village for some election-related work on Thursday night. As per reports, Mallick along […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik and his son Nabajyoti Patnaik are the richest among the candidates in fray in constituencies going to polls in the fourth and final phase elections in Odisha. According to the data published by the Odisha Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Nabajyoti is the wealthiest among […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Major newspapers in state today have carried full page advertisements of ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) telling people that Odisha is going to play a major role in the formation of government at the Centre this time. Asserting that no national party would get a majority at the Centre and regional […]

Vienna: Breast cancer passed down in families may be preventable by the medication Denosumab, which is undergoing a five-year study in Austria. The Austrian Breast and Colorectal Cancer Study Group is leading the work as it examines the drug’s effectiveness on 2,950 patients with a hereditary disposition to this particular form of cancer, according to […]

Sydney: Eating too much high-calorie food is anyway bad for health but under stress, sugary and high-fat diet can lead to more weight gain than in normal situations, says a study. During an experiment on mice, the team discovered that a high-calorie diet when combined with stress resulted in more weight gain than the same […]

Kendrapara: One of the most sensitive among the coastal belts, Kendrapara parliamentary constituency this elections, has undoubtedly turned out to be the political hotbed of Odisha. Amid intensified campaigning by all three major political parties, BJP national vice-president and Kendrapara Lok Sabha candidate Baijayant Panda today expressed apprehension that BJD is conspiring an attack on […]

Kendrapara: Ahead of the fourth phase polls, all the major political parties have rolled up their sleeves with the Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency witnessing high-voltage campaigning. From the kind of weight that the ruling party is putting behind this constituency, it seems that the fight is between one man – BJP’s LS candidate Baijayant Jay […]

Bhubaneswar: Curtains came down on the month-long high-voltage poll campaigning across the State today ahead of the last phase polling in six Lok Sabha constituencies and 41 Assembly constituencies in Odisha on April 29. Preparations for smooth conduct of elections in the constituencies have been initiated on a war footing. Polling parties are already on […]

Bhubaneswar: With national security taking spotlight this election and when Balasore, India’s Missile launchpad, is voting Monday,  the moot point is will the top biller of this election prove a projectile for the BJP’s fortune in the Lok Sabha (LS) seat? While BJP has deployed party’s top gun Pratap Sarangi from the Balasore LS, BJD […]

Bhubaneswar: With the campaigning for the fourth and final phase in Odisha coming to an end today evening, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has gone with all guns blazing at CM Naveen Patnaik. The ruling BJD has camped party’s senior leaders and workers from across the State in Kendrapara. The ruling party did so to […]

Bhubaneswar/Keonjhar: The Bharatiya Janaja Party (BJP) workers Friday night nabbed a person from the vicinity of the strong room at Odisha School of Mining and Engineering (OSME). According to reports, BJP workers had handed over one Asha Pradeep Mohanty, who claims to be a software engineer, along with a car to the Town PS, when […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Electoral officer Surendra Kumar on Saturday admitted that a control unit from booth no 62 under Brahmagiri Assembly Constituency (AC) is ‘missing’. Addressing a presser, Kumar informed that the particular control unit was not kept in the specified strong room and there were lapses on part of the official who received the […]

Bhubaneswar: As this tribal dominated Mayurbhanj, the land of Simlipal Tiger Sanctuary, Lok Sabha (LS) constituency is going to vote on Monday, the watch out factor is will BJD score a hat trick of wins in 2019 or will BJP reclaim its past glory this time or will JMM walk away with the victory cake. […]

Tokyo: People who report intense feelings of responsibility are prone to develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), warn researchers. Anxiety and OCD-like behaviour, such as checking if the door is locked, are common in the general population. However, it is the frequency and intensity of these behaviours or feelings that mark […]