Odisha

Day visitors allowed entry into Bhitarkanika National Park

11:53 pm October 19, 2020

Kendrapara: A fortnight after a partial reopening, the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha’s Kendrapara district has been thrown open for public on Monday amid strict adherence to COVID-19 protocol, an official said. The national park shut since March following the outbreak of COVID-19 had reopened on October 1 allowing the visitors only for overnight stay […]

COVID UPDATE: India sustains trend of consistently low active cases

2:01 pm October 19, 2020

New Delhi: India has crossed another milestone in its fight against COVID-19. The national cumulative Positivity Rate has fallen under 8%. This trend has been sustained without a break for four days. The cumulative Positivity Rate is 7.94% now and is on a continuous decline. This has been brought about by high level of comprehensive […]

Miscreants loot cash and gold worth Rs 20 lakh from bank

10:50 pm October 13, 2020

Balasore (Odisha): Armed miscreants on Tuesday looted cash and gold ornaments worth about Rs 20 lakh from a nationalised bank at Bhograi in Odisha’s Balasore district, police said. The miscreants speaking in Bengali and Hindi looted the cash and gold at the gunpoint from UCO banks Chaukh branch at Bhograi, the police said. The miscreants […]

Deer killed after being hit by vehicle near Simlipal

10:07 pm October 6, 2020

Baripada (Odisha): A deer was killed after being hit by a vehicle near the Similipal sanctuary in Odisha‘s Mayurbhanj district on Tuesday, forest officials said. The incident happened near Kalabadia on National Highway 18 in the Deuli forest range, when the animal, weighing around 30 kg, had come out of the Similipal sanctuary, Range Officer […]

Delhi's peak power demand scales new high of 7,323 MW

Oppn BJP & Congress demand rollback of power tariff hike

10:59 pm October 1, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP members and Congress MLAs on Thursday demanded in the Odisha Assembly that the Naveen Patnaik government immediately rollback the power tariff hike. The issue was discussed in the House through an adjournment motion notice where both the opposition parties strongly protested the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commissions (OERC) approval of the power tariff […]