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Bhubaneswar: A ten-man India U20 booked their slot in the final of the SAFF U20 Championship after defeating Maldives 1-0 in their last league match played at the Kalinga Stadium here on Tuesday. India, who finished on 9 points will take on Bangladesh U20 in the final which is slated on August 5. In a […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana swimmer Nitya Sagi clocked 05.26.33 sec to clinch silver in the 400m individual medley event of the Group 2 girls category in the ongoing 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool, Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. Ramachandra Hashika of Karnataka took home the gold with a timing of 5.10.70 […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana swimmer Vritti Agarwal continued her fine run as she bagged top honours in the 1500m freestyle in girls Group 1 category of the ongoing 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool, Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on Monday. The 15-year-old clocked 17.37.78 sec to clinch the gold. Earlier, she won gold […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana’s M Suhas Preetha set a new record on his way to gold medal in the 100m backstroke in the Group 2 Boys on the opening day of the 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships held at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool, Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Suhas clocked 1.01.29 sec to clinch the top […]
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Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a minor boy in Odisha’s Keonjhar district allegedly killed his mother for not giving him money to purchase new clothes, police said on Friday. This incident occurred at Uparabarada village under Nayakote police station of the mineral-rich Keonjhar district on Thursday. The accused, a 10-year school dropout had requested his […]
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Bhubaneswar: A tense shoot-out following a frantic end to the regular period, saw Indian men come away with a bonus point in their match against England in FIH Pro League here at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. A real up and down battle saw the lead change hands thrice and thrice the trailing […]
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Hyderabad: Former Telangana State Sports School student weightlifter D Ganesh clinched a bronze medal in the youth category and fifth position in the junior category at the Youth, Junior national weightlifting championship at the Biju Patnaik Indoor Stadium, KIIT University in Bhubaneswar on Friday. Competing in the 81 kg category, he lifted 123 kgs in […]
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Hyderabad: State athletes N Mayavathi and A Ravi Kiran have been selected to represent India in the upcoming 19th World School Athletic Championship-School Gymnasiade to be held in Normandy, France, from May 14 to 22. Mayavathi will compete in 100m and 200m events while Ravi Kiran, a para athlete in T-35 category, will participate in […]
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Bhubaneswar: At least 22 people, including seven police personnel, were injured when suspended BJD MLA Prasant Jagdev’s vehicle allegedly ran over them at Banapur in Khurda district, police said. The MLA from Chilika was also critically injured as he was roughed up by a mob after the vehicle mowed down a section of the crowd […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Spanish men’s hockey team defeated India 5-3 in the FIH Pro League match at the Kalinga Stadium on Sunday. The result means India are in second place in the league table, four points behind Netherlands. Spain remain in eighth position. It was to be Spain’s day in Bhubaneswar as the Red Sticks men […]
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Hyderabad: D Bhagyalaxmi of Osmania University clocked 4.27.82 seconds to win gold medal in the 1500m event at the 81st All India Inter-University Women Athletics Championships held at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on Tuesday. The victory here earned a place in the World University Games scheduled to be held at Chengdu, China from June 26 […]
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Visakhapatnam: East Coast Railway will introduce modern Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) rake to Visakhapatnam-Kirandul-Visakhapatnam express with additional Vistadome coach with effect from Tuesday. ECoR has focused on conversion of conventional coaches of important trains with LHB coaches over its jurisdiction. The LHB coaches, based on German technology, offer better riding comfort, are lighter in weight, […]
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Vijayawada: Heavy rains and floods in Andhra Pradesh resulted in cancellation and diversion of several trains on Sunday. According to railway officials here, the trains cancelled on the day were 20895 Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar, 22859 Puri-Chennai Central, 17489 Puri-Tirupati, 12655 Ahmedabad-Chennai Central, 12967 Chennai Central-Jaipur, 06426 Nagarsol-Tiruvantantapuram, 06427 Tiruvantapuram-Nagarsol, 06425 Kollam-Tiruvantapuram, 06435 Tiruvanantapuram-Nagarsol, 12863 Howrah-Yesvantpur, 12269 Chennai […]
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New Delhi: Similipal tiger reserve in Odisha has a unique feature. It is the only tiger reserve in the world where a subspecies of tigers called Pseudomelanistic tigers have been photographed. Pseudomelanistic tigers stand out from the rest of the tigers as the black stripes on their back are so wide that they almost overlap […]
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Bhubaneswar: A journalist has died while another person is missing after a boat of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), deployed to rescue a wild elephant trapped in the Mahanadi river in Cuttack district, capsized on Friday, officials said. According to sources, a wild tusker got stranded near the Munduli barrage while trying to […]
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Bhubaneswar: The highest number of victims who were trafficked for forced labour last year were from Odisha, which also saw cyber crimes shoot up by a whopping 30 per cent amid the coronavirus lockdown, according to NCRB report. The state registered one of the highest rates of murders and attempts to murder in the country, […]
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Bhubaneswar: Over 19.53 lakh people in 11 districts of Odisha have been affected by heavy rains in the state since Sunday morning, officials said on Monday. According to a report prepared by the office of the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), over 19.53 lakh people in 2,789 villages of 11 districts have been affected by the […]
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Visakhapatnam: Due to safety related modernisation works for insertion of Limited Height Subways in Vizianagaram-Korukonda and Dusi-Ponduru section of Waltair Division, many special trains are cancelled and rescheduled. Special trains cancelled: The train No. 02085 Sambalpur-Nanaded special train leaving Sambalpur on August 23; the Bhubaneswar-Secunderabad special leaving Bhubaneswar on Aug. 23; Guntur-Rayagada special train leaving […]
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The incident took place on Tuesday evening. at the house of Sampad Kumar Parida. A cobra slithered towards his house but met with a formidable roadblock - their pet cat.
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As many 113 dengue cases have been detected in the Khurda district since January, of which 103 cases were identified only in July, said public health director Niranjan Mishra here on Friday.