India, China hold another round of diplomatic talks on border standoff in Ladakh
New Delhi: India and China held Wednesday a fresh round of diplomatic talks with a focus on implementing the five-point agreement reached between the two countries to resolve the nearly five-month-long border standoff in eastern Ladakh. The virtual Indo-China talks...
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Another 4,219 patients recover from COVID-19 in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported Wednesday the recovery of 4,219 COVID-19 patients from various districts of the state. These COVID-19 patients have been discharged from their respective treatment facilities. The new recoveries took the total tally of recovered patients to 1,85,700 in Odisha. It also brought down the number of active cases...
Read moreOdisha tops in child pornography: NCRB data
Bhubaneswar: Crimes against women and children seem to be haunting Odisha if the recent data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is any indication. According to NCRB data, Odisha recorded the highest of 542 cases of using child for pornography or for storing pornographic material under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in 2019. Odisha was followed by Rajasthan which saw 157 such cases in the year. The...
Read moreUnlock 5.0: Cinema halls to open October 15 with 50% of seating capacity
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs announced Wednesday a detailed guideline of the Unlock 5 phase which will be effective from October 1. Despite the coronavirus tally going past the 62-lakh mark in India, Wednesday, the Home Ministry stated that there would be more relaxations and fewer restrictions. The ministry however, has also said that state and district-level administrations can have their own rules to tackle COVID-19. The most important...
Read moreBengali actor Nusrat Jahan seeks additional security in London after getting death threats in social media
Kolkata: Actor-turned-Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan is currently shooting in London for a Bengali film. Nusrat Jahan has sought additional security protection after getting death threats on social media. She is getting the death threats for posting a video in which she is featured as ‘Mahisasurmardini’ (Goddess Durga). Nusrat had September 18 posted on her Instagram and Twitter accounts a picture of her ‘Mahisasurmardini’ video. In the video Nusrat is seen...
Read moreThe number of daily rape incidents in India in 2019 will astound you: Read on for details
Bhubaneswar: Crimes against women in India have seen a continuous rise in the last two to three years according to National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data. These crimes range from rape, torture and assault to various forms of domestic violence. In majority of the cases, women suffer at the hands of their husbands and other family members. However, outsiders are also involved on many occasions in harming women. As per the...
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Are men at a greater risk of heart disease than women? Find out here
New Delhi: Over the years, multiple researches have concluded that heart disease impacts men and women differently. It has been noted that in the younger age groups, men are at a far higher risk of heart disease than women; on an average, while the disease strikes men at 65 years of age, women may experience it when...
Get relief from pain during menstruation with these home remedies
Women undergo unbearable pain every month during menstruation (period). Due to this, weakness and fatigue also begin, which also has an effect on work. At the time of menstruation, there is a slight swelling in the internal organs of the body, due to which pain starts. Hormonal changes also occur in our body during periods. Apart from...
Why are yellow and white stripes used in train coaches?
Indian Railways is the second-largest rail network in Asia and the fourth-largest rail network in the world with a single government ownership. This facility of transport is one of the easiest modes of transport. Every day millions of people travel by train and to take these millions of people to their respected destinations, trains play a vital...
He doesn’t only bowl yorkers, he has a big heart too: Find out more about him
Chennai: He has broken through the shackles of poverty by bowling pinpoint yorkers at will. Fast bowler Thangarasu Natarajan has done almost everything he could for his family. However Thangarasu Natarajan has failed to convince his mother to give up selling chicken on the roadside. That she wouldn’t as she feels it had helped the family survive...
IPL: Clinical KKR register 37-run win over Rajasthan Royals
Dubai: A clinical Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Wednesday coasted to a 37-run win over Rajasthan Royals (RR) here. After scoring 174/6 wkts in 20 overs, KKR restricted RR to 137/9 in 20 overs, with top scorer Tom Curran (54 not out off 36 balls) being one of just three RR batsmen to enter double figures. Pat Cummins...
3 Odia lawyers in Central panel
New Delhi: Three Odia lawyers have been inducted into the Centre’s advocates’ panel to plead for the government in the Supreme Court. President Ram Nath Kovind has engaged as many as 24 advocates in Group A and Group B panels of counsels. Senior advocate Ashok Kumar Panda and Supreme Court advocate on record Subhranshu Padhi have been...
Outfits seek justice for Hathras gangrape victim
Bhubaneswar: Several civil society organisations (CSOs) in Odisha Wednesday condemned the gangrape and subsequent death of a Dalit girl of Hathras in Uttar Pradesh and sought immediate action against the culprits. The 19-year-old rape victim, who was gangraped and left paralyzed by four upper caste men, died a fortnight after the heinous incident at a Delhi hospital...
Death time missing in Sushant Singh Rajput’s autopsy: AIIMS forensic report to CBI
New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Forensic Department has submitted its report with the CBI in actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case. It has questioned the absence of the timing of death in the autopsy report and pointed towards the dimly-lit post-mortem room at Cooper Hospital, sources said. The source ruled out the...
Uproar in Assembly over nCoV ‘mismanagement’
Bhubaneswar: The second day of the monsoon session of the Assembly witnessed uproarious scenes over failure of the government in Covid management. Participating on a debate on admissibility of an adjournment over the failure of government in Covid management, Leader of Opposition Pradipta Naik said, “The state government has totally failed in management of the pandemic and...
House passes Epidemic Diseases Amendment Bill
Bhubaneswar: The Assembly Wednesday passed the Epidemic Diseases (Odisha Amendment) Bill, 2020 amid protests by opposition BJP and Congress in the House. The Bill, which was introduced Tuesday, was debated Wednesday on the floor of the House where BJP and Congress members opposed the provision of imposing a hefty Rs 1 lakh penalty along with two-year jail...
