Odisha girl locks boyfriend in an iron suitcase BHUBANESWAR: Secret rendezvous between lovebirds is not an uncommon occurrence. In films and television series, viewers witness numerous scenes where a boyfriend or girlfriend attempts to conceal themselves within a room to avoid being caught. However, such incidents transpire in reality as well. A viral video from…
KORAPUT: Come hell or high water, Anant Kumar Darli and Sujit Kumar Pujari will not stop in the path of duty, even if it means swimming through. In an extraordinary display of dedication, govt doctor Darli and his assistant Pujari swam across a flooded Odisha river in deluge-hit Malkangiri district Friday to reach patients suffering…
BHUBANESWAR: A third year BTech student of IIT-Bhubaneswar died after falling from the fifth floor of the administrative building of the institute late Tuesday. Police suspect it was a suicide, but are waiting for the postmortem report to provide concrete answers, reports Hemanta Pradhan. The student, Kritika Raj from Delhi, was undergoing treatment for obsessive…
Former IAS officer V K Pandian with Naveen Patnaik (ANI file photo) BHUBANESWAR: After a brief lull, former chief minister Naveen Patnaik once again came in support of his trusted aide, V K Pandian, on Monday. He dismissed a media report against the former bureaucrat as unfounded and false.The report had claimed that Pandian had…
BHUBANESWAR: Government officials and servitors, who opened Ratna Bhandar of Jagannath Temple on Sunday after 46 years, discovered several antique idols crafted from precious metals in the treasury’s inner chamber. These idols were not listed in any previous inventories.“The ancient small idols — perhaps 5 to 7 in number — have turned almost black over…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP won for the first time in 45 assembly constituencies and nine Lok Sabha (LS) seats in Odisha in the recently concluded simultaneous polls, an analysis by TOI of the results revealed. The party won a total of 78 seats in the 147-member assembly and 20 out of 21 LS seats in the…
BHUBANESWAR: An exit poll by Times Now-ETG predicted on Monday a near-repeat of the 2019 landslide for Naveen Patnaik’s BJD in the Odisha assembly polls, differing from other projections that show the party either neck and neck with challenger BJP or not ahead by much.BJD is likely to win 100 to 115 seats in the…
Bhubaneswar: Four wagons of a goods train derailed near Kantabanji station under Sambalpur railway division of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) at about 10.50pm on Friday, resulting in disruption of trains movement on both the lines. No casualty is reported in this incident, said the Railway sources.Senior officials from ECoR were on the spot. Due…
BHUBANESWAR: In a setback for Congress, its Puri Lok Sabha candidate Sucharita Mohanty has declined to contest, citing little financial support from the cash-strapped party. While voting will be held for the Puri Lok Sabha seat and seven assembly segments under it on May 25, the deadline for filing of the nomination is May 6….
BHUBANESWAR: Most are up to speed about Formula 1. But here comes Formula 9, the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD)’s pattern in announcing its candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.Starting from its initial list unveiled on March 27 (2+7=9), which featured 72 (7+2=9) candidates, the party has maintained this numerical theme…
