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Udayagiri: In a bid to promote Buddhism and world peace, a chanting and meditation programme was organised by monks of Light of Buddha Dharma International, USA at Udayagiri in Jajpur district of Odisha. The 3-day International Tipitaka Chanting Ceremony was held for the first time in Odisha. Over hundreds of monks from India, Thailand, Myanmar, […]

Bhubaneswar: Dancer Anupam Nayak has been creating waves with his music videos of Zumba fitness sessions, ever since he left for USA as a Zumba trainer. But his latest venture has left Odias back home stunned. In a music video ‘Hailjaye America’ that has gone viral within a couple of days of release, Anupam and […]

Bhubaneswar: A solar eclipse will be visible to some parts of the USA today between 9.15 pm and 11.10 pm as per the Indian Standard Time. The solar eclipse is occurring in a gap of 90 years and will be visible completely to a place known as Madras, Oregon city in the USA for two […]

Bhubaneswar: Choreographer turned Zumba trainer Anupam Nayak’s unique mantra to his American fitness clients of working out on Odia songs continues to be popular. After his Zumba moves on popular Odia song Jai Phula won the hearts of the Zumba learners, this time he made them dance to Sambalpuri song Sagada Gadi, which they thoroughly […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born Sarita Pattnaik has been crowned Mrs India USA 2016 at a beauty pageant for Indian-Americans held at Atlant Georgea in USA on Sunday. Sarita, who is a resident of Rabi Talkies area in Bhubaneswar, is presently residing in Georgia in USA. Sarita is an interior designer and mother of two children. Apart from […]

Bhubaneswar: Ace woman sprinter of Odisha, Dutee Chand, has figured on the cover pages of New York Times, one of the frontline news magazines of USA, and the leading Indian news magazine, India Today. In its exclusive article, NYT has given a detailed account of the Dutee’s travails after she failed the test conducted to […]

Washington: The partial shutdown of the US government has become the longest on record, overtaking the previous record of the 21-day impasse in 1995-96 under then President Bill Clinton. With no end in sight to the political standoff, the current shutdown entered its 22nd day on Saturday and eclipsed the shutdown that stretched from December […]

Katowice (Poland): Following a year of devastating climate disasters around the globe, from California to Kerala, and Tonga to Japan, the annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) opened in this Polish city with the goal of finalising the implementation guidelines for the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The guidelines will provide clarity on how to implement […]

Washington: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said SpaceX founder Elon Musk will not be smoking weed in public again, the media reported. Speaking on Musk’s infamous marijuana consumption during “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in September, the NASA chief said ‘that was not appropriate behaviour’ and people will not be seeing that again, The Atlantic […]

Washington: A new US government report has delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impact, saying that the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century. The federally mandated study “Fourth National Climate Assessment”, was supposed to come out in December but was released by President […]

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Monday rejected the US President’s allegations that Islamabad failed to cooperate with the US and had helped the former Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden hide in the country until his death at the hands of the US military in a covert operation in 2011. Imran Khan said in a […]

New Delhi: India is the world’s second most polluted country, slightly trailing only Nepal, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) said on Monday. Particulate pollution is so severe that it shortens the average Indian’s life expectancy by more than four years relative to what it would be if World Health Organization […]

Beijing: China on Sunday urged the United States to stop wagging fingers at others, asking it instead to make real contributions to developing countries. “We suggest a certain country matches its words with its deeds, rather than wag the finger at others,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Sunday in response to US […]

San Fransico: The destructive California wildfires have so far killed at least 74 people with over 1,000 reported missing, authorities said. Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea said on Friday evening that the number of people missing due to Northern California’s Camp Fire, deemed as the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s […]

Washington: At least seven people were killed as hurricane Florence made landfall in the US state of North Carolina, battering the state with a powerful combination of wind and rain. Warnings were issued about the risk of life-threatening flash flooding in parts of North and South Carolina as well as in Virginia. It was downgraded […]