Tag: Festive Season

Cuttack: Ahead of the festive season, Odisha State Private Bus Owners’ Association has sought the intervention of DGP BK Sharma to put a check on incidents of forcible collection of puja donation. In a memorandum, the private bus association has claimed that they have been facing numerous problems due to such illegal practice in several […]

New Delhi: The festival season is just around the corner and it’s time to get cued in to the trend alerts before you start shopping. Designer Avvantika S. Parwani shares some tips: 1. Coordinated sets is a trend that I see forthcoming and working really well with millennial girls. It requires minimum effort and offers […]

Bhubaneswar: As part of its ongoing measures to clear additional rush of passengers during festive and winter season, the Ministry of Railways is currently running special trains towards different destinations across the country. The East Coast Railway (ECoR) is also running a direct special train between Visakhapatnam and Subedarganj (Allahabad) via Vizianagaram-Srikakulam-Bhubaneswar. As per ECoR […]

Berhampur: Despite witnessing a flattening of Covid-19 cases after series of stringent enforcement, the city administration of Berhampur will once again take up mass health screening in the city as a precautionary measure ahead of the festive season. Informing in this regard, Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC), Siddheshwar Baliram Bondar on Saturday said that a mass […]

New Delhi: Online shopping is likely to get a new boost in the coming festival season, as around 51 per cent consumers are likely to shop online during the period, according to a recent survey. In the 2019 survey of ‘LocalCircles’, only 27 per cent of those planning festive spending had indicated using ecommerce sites […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday appealed the people of the State not to lower guard against COVID-19 as there are chances of rise in the number of infections particularly during the upcoming winter and festive season. With the festivities round the corner, Patnaik urged people not to congregate at public places and […]

New Delhi: Consumers can cheer as oil marketing companies (OMC) may actually bring down the retail prices of petrol and diesel this festive season. Oil sector experts said that with global oil prices under pressure from slowing demand in the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic sweeping several western countries, crude price could fall in coming […]