Image for representation only Keonjhar: A 10-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide in his home in Keonjhar district on Saturday night after his mother refused to give him the mobile phone, police said on Sunday.The student was studying in a private residential school and had come home on Dussehra vacation. On Saturday morning, he had…
Berhampur: Berhampur police on Monday handed over a 51 lost and found mobile phones to the rightful owners at an event organised at the SP (Berhampur) office. The phones worth around Rs 20 lakh were recovered by a special police team of the cyber police station, headed by Shankar Panda, inspector in-charge, in special drive…
Koraput: Jeypore town police on Saturday handed over 17 missing mobile phones to their rightful owners after tracing and recovering them from different locations. Police said complaints regarding the loss of the mobile phones had been lodged by their owners on the CEIR portal (www.ceir.gov.in). Acting on these complaints, the police launched an operation and…
Bhubaneswar: National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) has ruled out suggestions that the recent tariff hike by the United States would have an adverse impact on business, saying its strategy is directed more towards the United Kingdom, where aluminium exports face zero duty.Nalco chairman and managing director (CMD) Brijendra Pratap Singh said the UK’s growing electric…
Bhubaneswar: Members of the Indian diaspora participated in the 79th Independence Day celebrations at India House in London, organised by the Indian High Commission on Friday. Indian high commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, unfurled the national flag and read out excerpts from President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the nation. Minister of state for social…
Bhubaneswar: The iconic Sambalpuri song, ‘Rangabati…Rangabati’, rent the air and dancers matched beats as the Indian community met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the UK.The performance was put together by an Odisha Society of United Kingdom (OSUK) team. “We had to get the sequence ready at short notice from the High…
Bhubaneswar: Odia women residing in Canada, Ireland and the UK celebrated Sabitri Brata.Recalling how they grew up seeing their mothers, grandmothers and aunts celebrate the occasion, Subhashree Dash, a teacher in Ottawa, said, “When I initially moved to the Bay Area in California, it was heartening to find Odia women continuing these traditions. After I…
Bhubaneswar: CM Mohan Charan Majhi on Sunday congratulated sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik for being conferred with the ‘Fred Darrington’ British Sand Master Award at Sand World 2025, an international sand art festival held in Weymouth, UK, for his 10-ft sculpture of Lord Ganesha, which symbolises the universal message of ‘world peace’. He is the first…