Jakarta: Under the captaincy of Birendra Lakra, the Indian men’s hockey team won the bronze medal in the Hero Asia Cup 2022 after defeating Japan 1-0 win at the GBK Sports Complex Hockey Stadium here on Wednesday. Rajkumar Pal put India ahead early in the first quarter and the team managed to hold on to…
Itanagar: Two documentaries from Arunachal Pradesh are to be screened at the 17th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) which started on Sunday. The documentary film ‘The Galos of Arunachal Pradesh’ directed by Apak Gadi was screened on May 31, while ‘The song we sing, the drums we beat’ directed by Kombong Darang will be screened…
Bhubaneswar: Mannata Mishra was declared the ‘best swimmer’ of the championship with 2134 FINA points in the Girls category and Anmol Mohanty was the ‘best swimmer’ in the boy’s category with 2078 points at the 62nd Odisha state Swimming Championships 22 ( Junior & Sub-junior). The championship was jointly organised by the Odisha State Swimming…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha has seen women and transgender as cab and auto drivers and now they would handle the gears of the city buses in Bhubaneswar. The Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) has recently announced to give women and transgender an opportunity to drive heavy vehicles. CRUT would impart special training to women and transgender in…
Ahmedabad: The 15th edition of the Indian Premier League has registered in the Guinness Book of World Records after displaying a giant jersey during the closing ceremony at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The organizers unveiled the world’s largest cricket jersey to mark 15 years of the world’s richest and most popular…
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated a state-of-the-art Cyber Security Operation Centre at OCAC on Friday. The centre will help protect the data, applications, and ICT infrastructure of the state from security threats. The CSOC has been set up by the state Electronics & IT Department & OCAC. The CSOC has been set up using…
Bhubaneswar: Shreya Lenka from Odisha has officially joined as one of the members of the K-pop group ‘Blackswan’ of DR Music. The DR Music was supposed to pick just one member for Blackswan, however, on Thursday they announced the names of Sriya and Gabriela Dalcin from Brazil to be the 5th and 6th members of…
New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Thursday recognized sex work as a ‘profession’ and sex workers are entitled to dignity and equal protection under the law. The court also directed police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against consenting sex workers. A three-judge Bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao…
Puri: Good news for the devotees of Lord Jagannath and his siblings, as they will get an opportunity to witness the Gajanana Besha of the deities on Deba Snana Purnima scheduled on June 14. The decision was taken at the meeting of Chhatisha Nijog Committee on Wednesday presided by the chief administrator of Shree Jagannath…
Bhubaneswar: An Economic Corridor is to be created in various places in Odisha which are likely to be completed soon. Asit Tripathy, Principal Advisor to Chief Minister and Chairman, Western Odisha Development Council chaired a review meeting on Monday about the development of the economic corridor planning along the Biju Expressway scheduled to be completed by…
