Berhampur, Jul 31: In a remarkable display of swift coordination and emergency response, Odisha Police and doctors at MKCG Medical College and Hospital saved the life of a 10-year-old boy after creating an 80-km green corridor for his urgent transfer from Puri district to Berhampur.The boy, identified as Prabhudatta Jena, a Class V student, sustained…
New Delhi, 16/11: College-going students will soon be able to pursue a year-long master’s degree. As per new guidelines by the University Grants Commission, students who have completed either a 4-year undergraduate programme or a 3-year UG with a 2-year Master’s programme, or a 5-year integrated programme in STEM subjects will be eligible for admission….
New Delhi: In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court said that retired judges can be appointed to the High Courts on ad-hoc basis. This will help in reducing the number of pending cases in the courts. While hearing the matter of Lok Prahari v Union of India, the Apex court of the country gave this…
New Delhi, 25/12: The three criminal bills to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the Evidence Act were on Monday enacted into law after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent. An image showing the three bills getting the presidential nod.Credit: Rashtrapati Bhavan The Bharatiya Sakshya Sanhita, 2023, The…
Mumbai, 12/12: Traders’ organization Confederation of All India Traders (CAT) recently accused the e-commerce major Amazon of selling hemp. Apart from this, CAIT had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the alleged sale of marijuana on Amazon’s platform. Now the Madhya Pradesh government…
Bhubaneswar, 28/12 (AO Bureau): The number of Coronavirus cases is kept on increasing day by day in Odisha. 234 more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha in the last 24 hours. The Coronavirus cases tally reached 328738. Similarly, 3 people have succumbed to death. The Corona positive cases have been detected in 24 districts….
China, 13/2 (Ao Bureau) The WHO team, which is searching for the causes of the epidemic, has refused to give detailed data of the initial Covid-19 infection to China. WHO team member and infectious diseases specialist Domnik Doer said the team investigating the spread of Covid-19 and the spread of the pandemic detailed details of…
Bhubaneswar: As many as 505 people were killed in road accidents during the safety awareness month, which was held between January 1, 2025 and January 31, 2025 in Odisha, informed Transport Minister Bibhuti Jena. In his reply to a question of Nayagarh MLA Arun Kumar Sahoo at the State assembly today, the Transport Minister said…
New Delhi, 10/6: A 90-minute meeting between top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress’ Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday, a day after Sonia Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee held talks, triggered speculation about merger of the two parties but were quickly smashed by both sides.Both the parties insisted that talks about a merger was “baseless” and…
Moscow, 20/8: Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and smashed into the Moon. Russia’s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit on Saturday. “The apparatus moved…
