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Puri Jagannath Temple To Remain Out Of Bounds For Devotees For 4 Hours Today

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Bhubaneswar: The Jagannath Temple in Puri will remain out of bounds for devotees for four hours on Wednesday due to the ‘Banaka Lagi’ or ‘Srimukha Sringara’ ritual of Lord Jagannath and his siblings Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra. This secret ritual will be organised in the second Bhoga Mandap. Entry for devotees for darshan of the deities will be prohibited for four hours from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm on Wednesday. The Jaya Bijay Dwar will remain closed during this period. The Datta Mahapatra will perform the Srimukha Sringara ritual…

Odisha Felicitates Athletes For Impressive Performance At Khelo India Youth Games 2022

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Bhubaneswar: In a ceremony held today at the Biju Patnaik Weightlifting Hall at the Kalinga Stadium, Minister of Sports and Youth Services Tusharkanti Behera, Chairman Hockey Promotion Council of Odisha, Dilip Tirkey and Joint Secretary to Government, Sailendra Jena, felicitated cash awards to state athletes who won medals at the Khelo India Youth Games 2022 and other athletic meets in the past year. Total cash award of Rs 1.85crore, was given away at the felicitation ceremony today. Odisha athletes had a fantastic run at the KIYG 2022, their best performance…

Naba Das Murder: New Photo Shows Accused Gopal Das Taking Aim At Minister From Close Range

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Bhubaneswar: A photograph of accused Gopal Das aiming his weapon at the slain Odisha Health Minister Naba Das just moments before the the latter’s murder surfaced on Monday giving an interesting twist to the high-profile crime. The photograph clearly shows, Gopal Das taking aim as Naba Das from a close range soon after the minister alighted from his car at Gandhi Chhak in Brajarajnagar in Jharsuguda district on January 29 afternoon. Although the weapon (Gopal Das’ service revolver) is not visible owing to the crowd at the venue (crime scene),…

3 Dead, Over 600 Injured After New Quake Hits Turkey

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Ankara: Three people are now confirmed to have died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region. More than 680 people have been injured in Turkey and Syria. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu also said 213 people had been injured. Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency Afad said the tremor occurred at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), the BBC reported. A 7.8-magnitude quake struck the same area on February 6, killing more than 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Those killed by Monday’s…

Odisha Assembly Budget Session Commences Today

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Bhubaneswar: The Budget Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly is scheduled to commence on Tuesday with the House meeting at 11:00 am. Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal will address the House on the opening day. Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the Annual Budget for 2023-24 in the House on February 24. It is expected that this Budget Session will to be stormy as the Opposition BJP and Congress have drawn up plans to raise burning issues, including the alleged failure of the Crime Branch in unearthing the motive behind Health…

Jharsuguda Police Withdraw Arms From Constable Who Allegedly Threatened To Kill Convicted MLA Anup Sai

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Jharsuguda: Even before the murder of Odisha Health Minister Naba Kisore Das, who was shot by an on-duty police ASI Gopal Das here on January 29, could be erased from the minds of the people, another police officer has put the Odisha Police in discomfort. The police officer concerned is Kolabira police station constable Saroj Das, who, in an inebriated state, allegedly threatened to kill former Brajarajnagar MLA Anup Sai on Monday. While Anup Sai was convicted in a double murder case and is currently out on bail, police have…

Indian-American Neal Mohan Is New YouTube CEO

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New Delhi: Indian-American Neal Mohan will be the new YouTube CEO, as current head Susan Wojcicki has announced to step down after 25 years at the Google-owned company. Currently chief product officer, Mohan became part of Google, the parent company of YouTube, in 2008. He is a Stanford graduate and earlier worked with Microsoft. Mohan and Wojcicki have worked together for nearly 15 years. He became YouTube’s chief product officer in 2015. “Today, after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of…

NTCA Approves Odisha’s Proposal To Declare Debrigarh A Tiger Reserve

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Bhubaneswar: Here’s good news for wildlife lovers. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accepted the Odisha government’s proposal to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha’s Sambalpur district a tiger reserve. In 2018, the Odisha government proposed to the NTCA to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve. The demand became stronger when a group of tourists spotted a young sub-adult Royal Bengal Tiger at the sanctuary on December 1, 2022. Forest department officials had then claimed that tigers from forests in neighbouring Chhattisgarh often stray into Debrigarh and…

Sweta Utkal Death Case: Boyfriend Soumyajeet Sent To Jharpada Jail

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Bhubaneswar: Soumyajeet Mohapatra, the reported boyfriend of software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari who was found dead in her apartment in the Infocity area of Bhubaneswar on August 19, 2022, was sent to Jharpada Jail here on charges of abetting suicide. Chandrasekhar Police had arrested Soumyajeet from his native house in Bansidhar Nagar in Odisha’s Sambalpur district in the wee hours of Thursday and brought him to Bhubaneswar yesterday. Following interrogation, he was produced in a court and subsequently sent to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected. Police said…

BCCI Chief Selector Chetan Sharma Resigns Amid Sting Operation Row

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New Delhi: BCCI’s chief selector Chetan Sharma has resigned from his post following a sting operation conducted by a TV news channel, where he shared internal information about the team and selection process, sources told IANS. According to sources, he sent his resignation to BCCI Secretary Jay Shah who accepted it. Earlier, in a sting operation, the 57-year-old was heard saying that Indian players have their own doctors outside of cricket, who are always available for them. “If they are fit for only 85%… they tell us to let them…