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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.
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Hyderabad: Three institutions including University of Hyderabad, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar and National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) have joined hands to collaborate in the field of improving nutritional value of cereals and minor millets. As part of this effort, researcher from UoH, Dr. M Muthamilarasan, Dr. Ajay Parida from Institute of […]
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Visakhapatnam: The Railways will run special trains to clear the rush of passengers. Accordingly, train No. 06185 Trivandrum – Malda Town Summer Special will leave Trivandrum at 18.00 hrs on Saturday, May 8 and on Tuesday May 11 so as to reach Visakhapatnam on the next day at 23.50hrs. The train will again leave Vizag […]
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Barring weekends, essential commodities would be available on all other days during the two-week-long lockdown, the order issued by Chief Secretary S C Mohapatra said.
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Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for their initiative in supplying oxygen to Covid-19 patients in Telangana through IAF aircraft. For the first time in the country, the aircraft with empty oxygen tankers were flown to Bhubaneswar in Odisha from […]
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Warangal Urban: Rainwater harvesting is a must for sustainable water development, and harvesting structures should be encouraged on the premises of houses, colleges, offices, and in open places, Project Manager, India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technology Innovative Fund, IIT, Bhubaneswar, Dr Suraj Jena said. Addressing a one-day webinar on “Sanchay Jal, Behtar Kal” held by the […]
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Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High-Performance Centre defeated Khalsa Hockey Academy (Amritsar) 5 - 1 to claim the third spot.
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The three stadiums and host cities will provide the ultimate backdrop for some of the finest players in Asian and world women's football from January 20 to February 6, 2022.
