Chennai, 1/9: Teenaged Grandmaster D Gukesh has replaced the legendary Viswanathan Anand as India’s top chess player after more than three decades. Anand has been India’s No.1 since July 1986. The 17-year old Chennai GM, who recently lost in the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup in Baku to Magnus Carlsen, moved ahead of Anand…
Bhubaneswar, 20/6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he rejected invitation of Donald Trump to visit the United States as visiting Odisha was more important for him. Modi, who earlier sounded the poll bugle in Bihar with a rally, reached Odisha in the afternoon where he took part in a road show and…
Jharsuguda: Vishal Das, son of the late Odisha Minister Naba Das and a Samiti Sabhya and Sarpanch of Kirmira Block in Jharsuguda district, have been detained at the Saraipali police station in Chhattisgarh. Vishal intimated this in a video message.According to reports, the no-confidence motion against the Chairman of Kirmira Panchayat Samiti in Jharsuguda district, Krishnapriya…
Sambalpur, 12/12: An infant was found stuck in an abandoned bore-well in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Tuesday, prompting the state government to launch a rescue operation, officials said. The bore well at Laripali village in Rengali area is 15-20 feet deep and oxygen is being supplied into it. The baby, apparently newly born, has no…
Sikkim, 19/3: The tourism sector in Sikkim was affected this week after many bookings were cancelled following heavy snowfall in the eastern and northern parts of the state that caused many visitors to get stranded, an official said on Sunday. However, with the clearance of the roads and resumption of issuance of passes,…
Washington, 16/4: China now faces tariffs up to 245 per cent on imports to the United States due to its retaliatory actions, the White House has said, as the trade war escalated between the world’s two largest economies. Separately in a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that China “just reneged…
Rajgir (Bihar), 20/11: Indian women’s hockey team retained the Asian Champions Trophy title with a narrow 1-0 win over Olympic silver medallist China in a pulsating final here Wednesday. Young striker Deepika scored the winner for India from a penalty corner in the 31st minute to finish as the tournament’s highest goal getter with 11…
Bengaluru, 5/6: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the state government to submit a report regarding the stampede incident at the Chinnaswamy Stadium during the victory celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru, in which 11 people died and around 40 injured. A division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice V Kameshwar Rao gave this direction…
Bhubaneswar, 25/3 (AO Bureau): In a major development, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik lays the foundation stone for the redevelopment of the historic Kalinga Studio. Idco Odisha to take up the project work. According to the estimation, renovation of Kalinga stadium to be completed by December.
Dispur, 28/8: Congress’s Assam unit president Bhupen Bora on Friday apologised for drawing a parallel between ‘love jihad’ and Lord Krishna’s relationship with Rukmini while commenting on the triple murder case in Golaghat. On Monday, a 25-year-old man killed his wife and her parents over some family issues and later surrendered before the police in…
