Briefs

Bhubaneswar: The third National Chilika Bird Festival takes off at Mangalajodi in Khurda district on Friday with the participants leaving for the place in the evening. The bird lovers can...

London: Two nursing home residents have died two days after receiving shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The Norwegian Medicines Agency is assessing whether the cause of death is the...

Bhubaneswar: A five-feet long Indian Rat Snake strayed into the e-blood bank room of Capital Hospital giving a scare to the staff here on Thursday. A blood bank employee spotted...

Puri: Excise officials seized brown sugar worth around Rs 20 lakh and arrested two persons in this regard in Puri district on Thursday. Acting on a tipoff, the officials intercepted...

Bhubaneswar: A fast food kiosk in the city was gutted following a fire mishap on Wednesday evening. According to sources, the Green Chillyez-Street Food shop near Gopabandhu Square caught fire...

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked the Tamil Nadu government to revoke its order of permitting 100% occupancy at theatres. Pointing out that MHA guidelines...

Bhubaneswar: Fuel prices have been hiked after a gap of 29 days. The price of petrol has gone up by 26 paise per litre and that of diesel by 25...

Aska: A man was allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of being a thief at Sunapalli area under Kabisuryanagar police limits in Odisha's Ganjam district on Wednesday. The deceased has...

Sambalpur: Three persons were injured after a truck hit an ambulance on Burla-Mahanadi Bridge here on Wednesday. As per sources, the ambulance was going to Burla from Rourkela when the...

New Delhi: The Union budget will be presented in Parliament on February 1, NDTV reported sources as saying. President Ram Nath Kovind will address both the Houses, Lok Sabha and...