Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted below-normal rainfall in Odisha during the 2026 Southwest Monsoon season.Addressing the media, IMD Director General Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the seasonal rainfall (June to September 2026) across the country is likely to be 90% of the Long Period Average (LPA) with a model error of ±4%. This…
Amid the ongoing heatwave sweeping several parts of Odisha, authorities in two districts have announced the closure of schools from Monday Sambalpur/Jharsuguda: Amid the ongoing heatwave sweeping several parts of Odisha, authorities in two districts have announced the closure of schools from Monday.Odisha Travel Guide The District Education Officer in Sambalpur has declared a holiday…
Queensland, 11/6: India were restricted to 167 for eight after being put into bat by Australia in the fourth T20 at Carrara (Gold Coast) on Thursday (November 6). Shubman Gill top-scored for India with a brisk 46, while Nathan Ellis was the pick of Aussie bowlers with figures of three for 21. The five-match series…
Mumbai, ,14/8: Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, her husband, businessman Raj Kundra, and another unknown person were booked in a case of fraud on Thursday. According to a report by news agency ANI, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) booked the trio at the Juhu Police Station in Mumbai for allegedly cheating Mumbai-based businessman Deepak Kothari of…
Jajpur: Jajpur District Magistrate P. Anvesha Reddy on Saturday informed that the number of diarrhoea cases in the district is gradually declining. To control the spread, the administration has launched extensive disinfection drives in the affected areas. “We have deployed two to three teams in each panchayat to carry out decentralized disinfection. All Junior Engineers,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s contribution of $7.5 million to the ‘Quad Cancer Moonshot’ initiative. This announcement was made during the sixth Quad Leaders’ Summit, held in Wilmington, Delaware.The ‘Quad Cancer Moonshot’ initiative, spearheaded by the Quad nations – the United States, India, Japan, and Australia – aims to enhance cancer prevention,…
Mumbai, 27/3: The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Wednesday released its first list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, nominating former Union ministers Anant Geete and Arvind Sawant from Raigad and South Mumbai constituencies respectively. The party also fielded Rajan Vichare from Thane, Amol Kirtikar from Mumbai North-West, and Sanjay Patil from Mumbai…
Ayodhya, 12/1: Destiny had decided that a grand temple of Lord Ram will be built in Ayodhya and it chose Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this, BJP stalwart L K Advani has said in an article to be published in a special edition of the ‘Rashtra Dharma’ magazine next week. In his article ‘Ram Mandir…
New Delhi, 28/1: The Supreme Court has refused to dilute the conditions of reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The court has said that the state is bound to collect quantitative data before granting reservation in promotion to SC/ST employees. The court has said that after the decision of the Constitution Bench…
New Delhi, 26/3: A Delhi court on Tuesday sent BRS leader K Kavitha to a 14-day judicial custody in the Delhi liquor policy ‘scam’ case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja remanded the MLC leader and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to judicial custody.
