Ganjam: In a tragic road accident, two persons were killed and three others seriously injured when two motorcycles collided head-on while returning home after watching Danda Nacha (traditional stick dance) performance .The accident occurred near Podakhari under Sorada police station limits in Ganjam district on Sunday night.The deceased have been identified as Gurudeb Pradhan of…
Odisha Vigilance arrested Bhagabat Bhusan Behera, Forester of Bhatangpadar Forest Section under Bhawanipatna Forest Range, Kalahandi district, in a disproportionate assets case.He will be produced before the Court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhawanipatna.Searches on Behera’s properties revealed assets far beyond his known sources of income. Officials seized a newly constructed multi-storeyed building, nine high-value plots,…
Chennai, 22/9: Left-leaning Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s Anura Kumara Dissanayake is set to be Sri Lanka’s new President as he secured about 50 per cent of votes polled in Saturday’s watershed election, the first after the country faced an unprecedented economic crisis in 2022. 55-year-old Anura, popularly known as AKD and perceived to be close to…
New Delhi, 9/1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is considering doubling the annual payout to landowning female farmers to Rs 12,000 ($144), three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, a move likely to appeal to women voters ahead of a general election. The plan is likely to be announced in the budget on…
Bhadrak: At least seven people, including four women and a boy, were injured Tuesday after a fire broke out at a cracker manufacturing unit in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, police said. The incident happened at Haladiha bypass on Chandbali Road under the jurisdiction of the Bhadrak Rural police station. Four women and the boy are among the…
Kantilo, 14/4: On the instructions of Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister’s Secretary (5T) Shri VK Pandian today visited the Kantilo Neelmadhava Peetha to pay a visit to the Mahaprabhu and discuss with the locals and services about the improvement of the Peetha. Kantilo is a famous religious tourist destination in Nayagarh district….
Patna, 29/12 (AO Bureau): In Bihar, everything is not going well between JDU and BJP. This statement of JDU state president Vasishtha Narayan Singh in which he is advising his old ally, BJP, not to correct everything. Actually, the move of 6 JDU MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh to the BJP is not at all appealing…
Kanyakumari, 30/5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday embark on a near two-day meditation exercise at the famed Vivekananda Rock Memorial here, and the district has come under a thick security blanket following the high profile event.
New Delhi,9/5 (AO Bureau);DRDO’s anti-covid drug ‘2-deoxy-D-glucose’ has recently been approved by DCGI for emergency use. Dr. Satish Reddy, Chairman of DRDO has said that from 11 or 12 May this anti-covid drug will start becoming available in the market. He has told that initially at least 10 thousand doses of medicine can come in…
Washington DC, 26/4:Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world’s richest person. It is a seminal moment for the 16-year-old company that emerged…
