Angul: A 42-year-old woman died after being struck by lightning while working in a farmland in Odisha’s Angul district on Sunday morning. The deceased has been identified as Sumati Behera of Majhimunda village under Bagedia police limits.According to reports, Sumati had gone to her farmland with her sister-in-law around 9.30 am to clear grass in the cultivated…
Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday, lauded Odisha’s canoeing player Rashmita Sahu for her remarkable journey in water sports and her recent success at the Khelo India Water Sports Festival held at Dal Lake, Srinagar.Highlighting the country’s first-ever water sports festival, the Prime Minister said over…
Hyderabad: A gas cylinder exploded at Asbestos Colony in the Kukatpally area of Hyderabad this morning, leaving seven people from Odisha critically injured.According to reports, the blast occurred while the victims were asleep inside their house. The sudden explosion triggered flames that quickly engulfed the room, leaving the occupants with critical burn injuries.Among the injured…
Bengaluru, 31/8: Citizens will have to pay more during property transactions as the registration fee has been hiked from 1% to 2%, a move estimated to generate an additional Rs 2,500 crore for the cash-crunched government. The hike will come into effect from August 31, the government announced on Saturday.
Gopeshwar, 31/8: A motorable bridge on the Jyotirmath-Malari highway in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district got washed away due to heavy rains, severing connectivity to more than a dozen villages in the border area of the Niti Valley. Heavy rains in the upstream swelled the seasonal Tamak stream, and its gushing waters damaged the bridge around 2…
New Delhi,31/8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit ethnic violence-hit Manipur mid-September, the first time in 28 months after the north-eastern state witnessed violence between tribes. Modi is expected to visit state capital Imphal and Churachandpur during his visit and meet violence-hit people, who are displaced in the violence that started on 3…
New Delhi, 31/8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit ethnic violence-hit Manipur mid-September, the first time in 28 months after the north-eastern state witnessed violence between tribes. Modi is expected to visit state capital Imphal and Churachandpur during his visit and meet violence-hit people, who are displaced in the violence that started on…
Tianjin, China, 31/8: India supports all efforts for peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a phone conversation on Saturday. Modi is scheduled to hold wide-ranging talks with Putin on Monday on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in this Chinese…
New York, ,30/8: US President Donald Trump “no longer has plans” to visit India later this year for the Quad Summit, The New York Times claimed on Saturday, as it detailed how relations between the American leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the last few months. In the report titled ‘The Nobel Prize and…
Bhubaneswar, 30/8: In a recent survey titled ‘Mood of the Nation’, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has secured the 8th position among the top-performing Chief Ministers in the country. Despite being in office for just 14 months, Majhi has managed to garner significant popularity among the people of Odisha, who have appreciated his…
