Hindu monks set up trust in Mathura to ‘liberate’ Krishna Janmabhoomi
Sushant Singh Rajput death: Rhea Chakraborty, family among six named as accused in CBI case
New Delhi: Rhea Chakraborty has been named as an accused in the FIR filed by the CBI in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. A day after the Centre asked the agency to probe the death of Bollywood actor Sushant...
80 Kashmiris joined terrorist groups this year; half of them dead already: J&K police DG
Doorstep healthcare delivery service launched in Ganjam for non-COVID patients
Cuttack records 64 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours; tally at 1,389
Cuttack: Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Thursday said that 64 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While 24 of them were reported from containment zones, 11 were reported from institutional quarantine centres. Another...
Odisha reports highest single-day spike of 1,699 new COVID-19 cases, total goes past 40k
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered its highest single-day spike of 1,699 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 40,717. Ten more deaths across the state took the death toll to 235. Out of the 1,699 new cases, 1,073 were reported from quarantine centres while 626 are local...
Read moreAnother 1,150 COVID-19 patients recover in Odisha, total recoveries at 26,887
Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Thursday said that 1,150 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 1,150 persons, 290 are from Ganjam, 197 from Khurdha, 121 from Rayagada, 76 from Sundargarh, 47 from Jajpur, 45 from Koraput, 44 from Cuttack, 40 from Puri, 35 from Nayagarh, 33 from Keonjhar, 25 from Balasore, 25 from Kalahandi, 24 from Mayurbhanj, 23 from Sambalpur, 22 from...
Read moreOdisha’s Girish Chandra Murmu appointed new CAG
New Delhi: Girish Chandra Murmu, the 1985 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer from Odisha who was appointed as the first Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor last year, has been appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. The decision came exactly a year after the Central government reorganised Jammu and Kashmir, bifurcating it into two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Official sources told IANS that...
Read moreBhubaneswar records 118 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours; tally at 3,472
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Thursday said that 118 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While 71 of them are quarantine cases, 47 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 90 persons who earlier tested positive for the disease have recovered. "Further contact tracing is still continuing. Primary contacts & nearby houses are being quarantined, sanitised and will be under active surveillance," BMC said. It...
Read moreIndia reports 56,282 new COVID-19 cases, total exceeds 19.6 lakh
New Delhi: India saw a single-day increase of 56,282 cases taking the country's COVID-19 tally to 19,64,536 Thursday, while the recoveries have surged to 13,28,336 and comprise 67.62 per cent of the total caseload, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 40,699 with 904 new fatalities being reported in 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. There are 5,95,501 active COVID-19 cases in...
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CV Raman students top Smart India Hackathon 2020
Bhubaneswar: In the just concluded ‘Smart India Hackathon 2020’, Software Edition, two groups of students of CV Raman Global University, Odisha stood first in the country by solving two live problems of Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments. The group, ‘Nexas’, consisting of Sourav Mishra (team leader), Satyabrata Pal, ShrishaAgarwala, Abhilasha Panda, Abhishek Das, Binit Kumar from CSE...
UNESCO recognition: Two villages in Odisha declared tsunami ready
Bhubaneswar: Adding another feather to its cap, Odisha has become the first state in the Indian Ocean region to get UNESCO-IOC recognisation for making the villages tsunami ready. Two villages – Noliasahi of Ersama block in Jagatsinghpur and Venkatraipur (Boxipalli) of Rangeilunda block in Ganjam district – have been acknowledged by Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO...
Congress divided over Ayodhya Ram temple issue
New Delhi: The first cracks have surfaced in the Congress over the Ram temple issue as Kerala MP TN Prathapan has objected to some party leaders going on an overdrive over the issue. Prathapan wrote to interim party chief Sonia Gandhi, a day ahead of the Bhumi Pujan at Ayodhya by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday....
Hindu monks set up trust in Mathura to ‘liberate’ Krishna Janmabhoomi
Mathura: With the 'bhumi pujan' clearing the way for the construction of the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Nirman Nyas has now been set up in Mathura with 80 saints from 14 states as part of it. Acharya Devmurari Bapu, who heads the trust, said, "We got the Nyas registered July 23 on...
Sushant Singh Rajput death: Rhea Chakraborty, family among six named as accused in CBI case
New Delhi: Rhea Chakraborty has been named as an accused in the FIR filed by the CBI in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. A day after the Centre asked the agency to probe the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday registered a case against six persons, including Rhea...
Puri: Devotees might catch glimpse of Holy Trinity soon
Puri: Devotees may soon have the opportunity to get glimpses of Lord Jagannath and his siblings at Srimandir here, said Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee member Ramchandra Dasmahapatra Thursday. Dasmahapatra claimed that deliberations are on to introduce online registration for devotees to visit the 12th century shrine. However, sources in the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) made...
Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak dies of suicide in Mumbai
Mumbai: Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak has allegedly died of suicide at her residence in Dahisar. The 40-year-old actress reportedly committed suicide August 2. A day before her death, Anupama went live on Facebook (unverified account) where she spoke about feeling cheated and not being able to trust anyone. "If you confide to someone that you are going...
India hits back at Pakistan for stoking communal hatred in country amid Ayodhya ‘bhumi pujan’
New Delhi/Islamabad: The government Thursday asked Pakistan to desist from inciting communal tensions in India with its provocative statements on its internal matters. Pakistan Wednesday had strongly condemned the 'bhumi pujan' ceremony for the construction of the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. In response to media queries on the issue, the official spokesperson of the External Affairs...
‘Pavitra Rishta’ director says Sushant couldn’t sleep for nights after being accused of sexual harassment
Mumbai: Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput could not sleep at nights when he was accused of sexual harassment in October 2018, in the wake of the MeToo movement. Thursday, Kushal Zaveri, one of the directors of the popular daily soap ‘Pavitra Rishta’, took to Instagram and recalled the late actor's state of mind during that phase. Zaveri,...
80 Kashmiris joined terrorist groups this year; half of them dead already: J&K police DG
Srinagar: The shelf life of new recruits joining militancy is one day to 90 days in the present security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir, said Dilbag Singh, Director General of Police (DGP). Singh, in a conversation with IANS on the completion of one year of the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5...
