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New Delhi: As the Centre seeks to amend the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, including...

New Delhi: The legal age of smoking in India is likely to be raised to 21 years soon. The Union government has drafted a bill, the Cigarettes and other Tobacco...

New Delhi: CoWIN, the Union government’s app for COVID-19 vaccination, will use an Aadhaar-based authentication system for the rollout of the vaccine, to prevent malpractice. The CoWIN system will help...

New Delhi: The Union government will hold a national-level online exam on ‘gau vigyan’ (cow science) on February 25. The purpose of this voluntary exam is to get students and...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government's Higher Education department has directed the staff of universities and colleges to attend duty from the day of reopening - January 11. Principal Secretary, Education department,...

Bhubaneswar: The age restrictions on entry of devotees to the Lingaraj Temple in the State Capital have been withdrawn. Informing mediapersons, Commissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Prem Chandra Chaudhary said...

Cuttack: London-based Odia writer Mona Dash has been chosen for the International Eyelands Book Awards 2020 for her book A Roll Of The Dice. Mona is an Engineer by profession...

Chennai: Senior Odisha-born Indian space scientist Tapan Misra alleged on Tuesday that he was poisoned with a deadly chemical on May 23, 2017, at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...

New Delhi: Following the death of a large number of birds in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, the Centre asked the state governments to “take all possible steps for containing...

New Delhi: The impending danger of the new mutant strain of coronavirus found in the UK helped Bharat Biotech get  emergency use approval for its vaccine candidate Covaxin. India has...