Bhawanipatna: The Odisha Forest department has launched a departmental investigation into the suicide case of Sanjay Nayak (33), a forester at the Jaring Hi-Tech Silviculture Nursery under Junagarh block in Kalahandi district. The action comes in the wake of allegations that the Rayagada DFO (Research Wing) was involved in his death. A Chief Conservator of Forests…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha is set to join the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) and discussions with the state are at an “advanced stage”. Though the Central government launched the scheme in 2018, Odisha, New Delhi and West Bengal opted not to join it.However, the BJP had promised in its Sankalp Patra for…
Bhubaneswar: A car driver died when the van reportedly lost control and plunged into the nearby canal near Bamphakuda village under Cuttack Sadar police station limits in the wee hours of Tuesday.The deceased is Kahna Jena, a resident of Bamphakuda village. He was driving home late last night when the car reportedly lost control and…
Jaipur: Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will travel in a Kavach-fitted train on Tuesday for a trial to check the efficiency of the automatic protection system at Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. The railway officials said Minister Vaishnaw will board the Kavach-fitted engine of a train at the Sawai Madhopur railway station and travel for 45 minutes…
Bhubaneswar: A fire broke out in a moving truck carrying 30 tons of dal (lentils) near Amanakuda Square on the Adasapur-Nialai Road in Cuttack district in the wee hours of Tuesday.According to sources, the truck was on its way from Raipur to Konark when it caught fire around 4 am near Amanakuda. The driver managed…
New Delhi, 24/9: The Supreme Court has said it listed for Tuesday pleas on the vexed legal question of whether a husband should enjoy immunity from prosecution for the offence of rape if he forces his wife, who is not a minor, to have sex. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice JB…
Kolkata: Six wagons of an empty goods train derailed near New Maynaguri station in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district on Tuesday morning. No casualties were reported during the incident.After the derailment, no disruption in railway services was reported.While the restoration work was on, the trains, which were supposed to move by the same lines, have been diverted…
Jammu and Kashmir: Security tightened in various districts of Jammu and Kashmir as the second phase of polls is scheduled on September 25. In preparation for the second phase of voting in JandK Assembly elections scheduled for tomorrow huge number of security personnel have been deployed.It is further worth mentioning that all vehicles are being checked…
Bhubaneswar: There has been an onion price rise in Odisha said reliable reports on Tuesday, the price of onions has reached Rs. 60 to Rs. 70 per kilogram. After potatoes, onions are making the consumer cry.The wholesale price of onion is now Rs. 50 per kilo. The sellers have expressed their displeasure over the increase in…
New Delhi/Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh): The country’s food safety regulator has issued a show cause notice to a Tamil Nadu-based firm for allegedly supplying substandard ghee to temple authority Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam even as the chorus for a thorough probe and strict action over the alleged use of animal fat in Tirupati laddus grew louder. On…
