New Delhi: Amid the global furore over the alleged presence of a "cancer-causing substance" in certain spices from India, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has cleared more than a dozen samples of spices from MDH and Everest brands. According to the analysis report, the extensive testing found no traces of ethylene oxide (ETO)...

Puri: Prime Minister Narendra Modi should find the missing keys to the ‘Ratna Bhandar’ -- the Jagannath Temple's treasure warehouse storing the jewellery of deities -- if he has “some knowledge” on the matter, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide Kartik Pandian said Tuesday. The issue that was long an emotive one in the state has...

Workers set up tent structures in preparation for Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's upcoming election rally at Cuttack Baliyatra ground   A fruit vendor sprinkles water on a heap of lychees to keep them fresh in summer heat in Cuttack  

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: As many as 17 cases of COVID-19 variant KP.2 has been detected in Odisha, official data revealed Tuesday. The official data further revealed that as many as 290 cases of KP.2 and 34 cases of KP.1, both sub-lineages of COVID-19 that are responsible for surge in cases in Singapore, have been found in India....

Bhubaneswar: BJP president JP Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma will address election rallies in Odisha May 23, a senior party leader said Tuesday. While Nadda will address four meetings at Karanjia, Dhamnagar, Barchana and Balikuda, Adityanath, who will campaign in Odisha for the first time this election,...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in money laundering and corruption cases lodged by the ED and the CBI respectively in connection with the alleged liquor scam. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, who started pronouncing the order at 6:28 pm for 22 minutes, said Sisodia allegedly...

Ahmedabad: Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bat against Kolkata Knight Riders in the first Qualifier of the Indian Premier League here Tuesday. Both teams are playing an unchanged eleven. The winners of the game will make the summit clash in Chennai Sunday. The losing team on the other hand will meet...

Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Tuesday expressed shock and surprise over the Juvenile Justice Board taking a lenient view of the Pune car crash involving a minor boy who fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne IT professionals with his speeding luxury vehicle. Amid an outrage over the accident involving the 17-year-old boy who crashed his Porsche...

New Delhi/ Puri: The Congress Tuesday slammed the BJP over the party's Puri Lok Sabha candidate Sambit Patra's 'Lord Jagannath' remark and demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apology over the issue. Patra Monday had said that Odisha's most revered deity "Lord Jagannath is a devotee of Prime Minister Narendra Modi". He, however, later clarified that it was...

Nayagarh: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah Tuesday asserted that Odisha lost 25 years of development under the 25-year BJD rule in the state, during which various sectors like healthcare, education and infrastructure got “derailed”. Shah, addressing a poll rally at Nayagarh, also sought clarification from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on the missing keys...