Naveen seeks support of Congress MLAs for Murmu
Bhubaneswar: Moving a step forward in support of NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday sought support of Congress MLAs in Odisha Assembly in favour of Murmu. Patnaik spoke to Congress legislature...
MLA Bhagirathi Sethi says peons administer injection to patients in Keonjhar
Bhubaneswar: In a major embarrassment to the BJD government in the Odisha Assembly, a ruling party MLA Tuesday said that peons administer injection to patients in several state-run hospitals due to lack of doctors and paramedics in tribal-dominated areas. This...
Odisha tops NFSA State Ranking Index
New Delhi: In the first-ever 'State Ranking Index' under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) released Tuesday, Odisha has topped the list of general category states while Tripura topped the list of special category states. Odisha is followed by Uttar...
Ganjam: 115 missing children rescued since January
Berhampur: As many as 115 missing children from Odisha's Ganjam district were rescued since January, police said Tuesday. Among those rescued were 112 girls, they said. While 23 girls were rescued from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and...
3,740 Bangladeshi infiltrators staying in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has identified 3,740 Bangladeshi infiltrators who are staying in the state, Minister of State (MoS) for Home, Tusharkanti Behera told Odisha Assembly Monday. The union home ministry has issued instructions to the state government at different...
Odisha reports 334 new Covid cases
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Tuesday recorded 334 fresh Covid-19 cases, 89 more than the previous day's figure, taking the tally to 12,91,117, the health department said. The positivity rate jumped to 2.91 per cent from 1.92 as the cases were detected out...
NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland
Brussels: The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals — and possible political trouble in Turkey. The move further increases Russia's strategic isolation in the wake of its...
Read moreTwitter drags Indian govt to court over ‘arbitrary’ content blocking orders
New Delhi: Twitter has moved the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government's order to take down some content on its platform, on the grounds that the content blocking orders from the IT Ministry do not pass "the test of the grounds provided under Section 69A of the IT Act", reliable sources said Tuesday. Twitter has alleged in its writ petition that multiple accounts and content included in the blocking orders...
Read moreLanka bankrupt, to present debt restructuring programme to IMF by August: PM Wickremesinghe
Colombo: Sri Lanka will present a debt restructuring programme to the IMF by August to secure a bailout package, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament Tuesday, but acknowledged that negotiations with the global lender were "more difficult and complicated" than in the past as the country is now "bankrupt." Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic crisis since its independence from Britain in 1948, and needs to obtain at least...
Read moreVice-presidential polls: 5 candidates, including ‘Ramayani Chaiwala’, file papers on day one
New Delhi: Five people, including one who goes by the alias "Ramayani Chaiwala", filed papers Tuesday, the first day of the nomination process for the August 6 vice-presidential election. The nomination papers of one candidate were rejected for failing to furnish a mandatory document. July 19 is the last date for filing nominations. According to the details available with the office of the returning officer, K Padmarajan of Salem district in...
Read moreSpiceJet’s Q400 plane conducts priority landing in Mumbai after windshield cracks mid-air
New Delhi: A Q400 plane of SpiceJet Tuesday conducted a priority landing at the Mumbai airport after its windshield cracked at 23,000 feet altitude, according to officials of aviation regulator DGCA. This is at least the seventh incident of technical malfunction happening on SpiceJet aircraft in the last 17 days. Earlier in the day, SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi as the fuel indicator started malfunctioning. The Directorate General of...
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Twitter drags Indian govt to court over ‘arbitrary’ content blocking orders
New Delhi: Twitter has moved the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government's order to take down some content on its platform, on the grounds that the content blocking orders from the IT Ministry do not pass "the test of the grounds provided under Section 69A of the IT Act", reliable sources said Tuesday. Twitter has alleged...
ONDC can become next UPI, says IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
Gandhinagar: Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Tuesday exuded confidence that Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) can become the next UPI, one of India's most successful digital products. According to Vaishnaw, ONDC can help entrepreneurs who are into either e-commerce, B2B or dealing directly with customers. "Can we expand ONDC to make it the next UPI? I...
Naveen seeks support of Congress MLAs for Murmu
Bhubaneswar: Moving a step forward in support of NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday sought support of Congress MLAs in Odisha Assembly in favour of Murmu. Patnaik spoke to Congress legislature party leader Narasingha Mishra over phone and requested him to support Murmu, who is a "daughter of...
MLA Bhagirathi Sethi says peons administer injection to patients in Keonjhar
Bhubaneswar: In a major embarrassment to the BJD government in the Odisha Assembly, a ruling party MLA Tuesday said that peons administer injection to patients in several state-run hospitals due to lack of doctors and paramedics in tribal-dominated areas. This was revealed by BJD legislator from Anandpur, Bhagirathi Sethi while narrating the sorry state of affairs in...
Lanka bankrupt, to present debt restructuring programme to IMF by August: PM Wickremesinghe
Colombo: Sri Lanka will present a debt restructuring programme to the IMF by August to secure a bailout package, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament Tuesday, but acknowledged that negotiations with the global lender were "more difficult and complicated" than in the past as the country is now "bankrupt." Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic...
Vice-presidential polls: 5 candidates, including ‘Ramayani Chaiwala’, file papers on day one
New Delhi: Five people, including one who goes by the alias "Ramayani Chaiwala", filed papers Tuesday, the first day of the nomination process for the August 6 vice-presidential election. The nomination papers of one candidate were rejected for failing to furnish a mandatory document. July 19 is the last date for filing nominations. According to the details...
NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland
Brussels: The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals — and possible political trouble in Turkey. The move further increases Russia's strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February and...
SpiceJet’s Q400 plane conducts priority landing in Mumbai after windshield cracks mid-air
New Delhi: A Q400 plane of SpiceJet Tuesday conducted a priority landing at the Mumbai airport after its windshield cracked at 23,000 feet altitude, according to officials of aviation regulator DGCA. This is at least the seventh incident of technical malfunction happening on SpiceJet aircraft in the last 17 days. Earlier in the day, SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight...
Odisha tops NFSA State Ranking Index
New Delhi: In the first-ever 'State Ranking Index' under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) released Tuesday, Odisha has topped the list of general category states while Tripura topped the list of special category states. Odisha is followed by Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat in the general category states, while in the special category comprising the...
Ganjam: 115 missing children rescued since January
Berhampur: As many as 115 missing children from Odisha's Ganjam district were rescued since January, police said Tuesday. Among those rescued were 112 girls, they said. While 23 girls were rescued from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, 14 others were found from different parts of the district during the special drive, Superintendent...