Odisha

Central team visits flood-hit areas of Odisha

11:48 pm September 16, 2020

Bhubaneswar: An inter-ministerial central team visited some parts of Odisha on Wednesday for an on the spot assessment of the damage caused by floods in the state in August, officials said. The six-member team led by Joint Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Praveen Vashista, is on a two-day visit to the state. It […]

Anxious about not clearing NEET, Odisha girl dies by suicide

11:53 pm September 13, 2020

Baripada: An 18-year-old medical aspirant died by suicide in Odisha‘s Mayurbhanj district, apparently because she was anxious about the result of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) held on Sunday, police said. She was found hanging in her residence here on Saturday night by her parents. When taken to a hospital, she was declared dead by […]

Odia film actor Ajit Das dies at 71

11:26 pm September 13, 2020

Bhubaneswar : Veteran Odia film actor Ajit Das died at a private hospital here on Sunday, family sources said. He was admitted to the COVID-19 hospital on September 1, but the authorities are yet to declare the reason behind his death. According to the rule of the state, one cannot reveal the identity of a COVID-19 patient […]

NEET tomorrow amid strict COVID-19 precautions

5:06 pm September 12, 2020

New Delhi: Over 15 lakh candidates are expected to appear in medical entrance exam NEET on Sunday which will be conducted amid strict precautions in view of the COVID 19 pandemic, according to officials of the National Testing Agency (NTA). In order to maintain social distancing, the NTA has increased the number of exam centres […]

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JEE-Main result declared; 24 candidates score 100 percentile

11:55 pm September 11, 2020

New Delhi: The result for JEE-Mains was announced on Friday with 24 students scoring 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam which was postponed twice in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan (4), Andhra Pradesh (3), Haryana (2 ) and one candidate each […]