Tag: New Delhi

Jharsuguda: Commercial flight services from Jharsuguda airport will begin under the UDAN-III scheme, informed Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today while addressing a press conference in New Delhi. Pradhan informed that flight services will start from Jharsuguda to Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi and Raipur. While SpiceJet and Alliance Air will start flight services between […]

Bhubaneswar: A team of doctors from Odisha led by Health & Family Welfare Department Secretary Shalini Pandit visited AIIMS, New Delhi and reviewed the health condition of the separated conjoined twins Jaga-Kalia. While the health condition of Jaga is better than before, Kalia is yet to recuperate completely, informed the doctors, adding that Kalia needs […]

New Delhi: Pronouncing its verdict on disqualification of sitting MPs and MLAs with criminal background, the Supreme Court today said that they can’t be disqualified before conviction in a criminal case as the apex court declined to interfere in the matter and left it to Parliament to frame relevant laws. Earlier, a Public Interest Litigation […]

Bhubaneswar: While the Odisha fire services team is still a part of the ongoing efforts to rescue 15 miners trapped for more than 25 days and feared dead at a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Sukant Sethi, on his return to Bhubaneswar, said that the rescue operation […]

New Delhi: Sandeep Bakhshi, the former head of ICICI’s life insurance arm, was appointed as Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank after Chanda Kochhar, who was mired in allegations of quid pro quo and conflict of interest, on Thursday resigned as from the top post of the bank. Kochhar, 57, whose second five-year term […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh each on nine States and Union Territories (UTs) and Rs 5 lakh on Haryana for not notifying the names of civil society members in their committees to take care of the needs of the urban homeless. A bench of Justice Madan […]

New Delhi: The Indian Railways is creating a buzz with its “Plan Bee” to tackle a mammoth problem at a meagre cost: It has installed devices which mimic the humming of a swarm of bees to keep elephants off the tracks to avert accidents. The Indian Railways on Friday said that its “Plan Bee”, launched […]

New Delhi: The separated conjoined twins Jaga and Kalia will soon be discharged from AIIMS, New Delhi and the process for it has begun, informed father of the boys Bhuyan Kanhara today. “Both of them will be shifted to Odisha Bhawan in New Delhi. It will take around four days  for the kids to be […]

  Bhubaneswar/ New Delhi: In a major relief to BJD MP Ramchandra Hansda, the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to him in connection with the Nabadiganta Captial Services chit fund scam. The apex court granted bail to Hansda, who was arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in November 2014, without any conditions, informed […]

Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch of Odisha Police arrested two African nationals from New Delhi for their alleged involvement in an online fraud and brought them to Bhubaneswar on a five-day remand for questioning. The arrested have been identified as Erikume (46) of Nigeria and Zouzou Alex (34) of Cote Dvoire. They have allegedly defrauded people […]

Bhubaneswar: The results of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII examinations were announced on Saturday. This year, the pass percentage has improved to 83.01 per cent from 82.02 per cent of last year. Thiruvananthapuram Region recorded highest pass percentage of 97.32%, Chennai stood second with 93.87%, followed by Delhi at 89%. “Results of […]

May 15: Actor-comedian Papu Pom Pom’s wife Sangeeta Satapathy today demanded to curb the rumours being spread about the health condition of her husband and informed that his condition is stable. He is undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Gastrology department at AIIMS, New Delhi and is being treated by a team […]

New Delhi: The time has come for renaissance of Odisha in a variety of spheres, said Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda during the second edition of ‘Odisha Parba’ – a 3-day annual event held in New Delhi to celebrate the culture, tradition and pay tributes to the glorious past of the state. While addressing the gathering […]

Bhubaneswar: To trace the whereabouts of missing AIIMS Bhubaneswar student from Kashmir, Suhail Aijaz, a three-member team of the Commissionerate Police left for Delhi today. Based on a tip-off from Suhail’s father, who received a telephone call from a public telephone booth in Gurugram recently, the team of the Commissionerate Police left for Delhi for […]

Rourkela: Bringing laurels to the state, Odisha lad Somesh Swain of Delhi Public School (DPS) in Rourkela bagged gold medal in the grand finale of the All India 100 mts competition held at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex in New Delhi. Somesh was felicitated at the Rourkela railway station after he received a rousing welcome by […]