Mumbai: Suriya Sivakumars upcoming Tamil fantasy action film Kanguva has the biggest war sequence, featuring more than 10,000 people, and the action, stunts, and visualisation of the entire war episodes are done under international expertise. According to the sources: The makers, Studio Green, along with director Siva and the entire team, have worked on every []

Balasore: At least 15 people fell ill after inhaling toxic gas emitted from a prawn processing plant near Nilagiri in Odishas Balasore district, police said Friday. Some workers, mostly women, engaged in the processing work in the plant complained of vomiting, nausea and difficulty in breathing Thursday night. They were immediately taken to Nilagiri hospital []

Bhubaneswar: BJP president JP Nadda Wednesday pledged to offer a peoples government to the citizens of Odisha. Addressing a function of BJPs women wing here, Nadda said, Say goodbye to the officer-led government as the BJP will provide Janata Ka Sarkar. He also said only the BJP can provide a women-oriented government in the country []

New Delhi: The first set of citizenship certificates under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act was issued Wednesday here to 14 people, nearly two months after rules under the contentious law were notified to grant Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from three neighbouring countries. Union Home Minister Amit Shah termed it a historic day, saying the []

Balasore: Lok Sabha Speaker and senior BJP leader Om Birla Wednesday claimed that the saffron party will come to power in Odisha as the people of the state want a change of government. Addressing a meeting in Balasore, Birla claimed that the people of Odisha are fed up with the misrule of the present Biju []

Bhubaneswar: Odishas Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Nikunja Bihari Dhal Tuesday urged the people not to share their Aadhaar details and mobile number with any political party and candidate. The CEO also appealed to all political parties and candidates to refrain from the collection of photocopies and personal mobile numbers of voters. The CEO issued such []

Bhubaneswar: Raising Odisha Ashmita (pride) as a key poll issue in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday launched a veiled attack on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaiks close aide Kartik Pandian alleging that the incumbent BJD government in the state is being run by a Super CM. While raising Odisha Ashmita issue in all the []

Kotia: Armed with two voter cards issued by two states, over 5,500 electors of the disputed Kotia region are eligible to exercise their franchise in both Odisha and Andhra Pradesh elections in the fourth phase May 13. Twenty-one of the 28 villages of the picturesque Kotia cluster are claimed by both states and a case []

Berhampur: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday urged voters not to support dishonest and unscrupulous candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the state. Addressing three election rallies in Gopalpur, Aska, and Phulbani under Berhampur, Aska, and Kandhamal Lok Sabha seats, where polling is scheduled for May 13, Patnaik interacted with the []

Malkangiri: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Thursday said the BJP will ensure free pilgrimage of five lakh people from Odisha to Ayodhyas Ram temple if the party is voted to power in the eastern state. Addressing an election rally at Kalimela here, the senior BJP leader also took a swipe at the ruling BJD []

Kolkata: In the backdrop of a woman employee of Raj Bhavan levelling molestation charges against him, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose Thursday showed CCTV footage of the premises of May 2 to around 100 common people. Footage from two CCTV cameras at the main (north) gate from 5.30 pm of May 2 was being []

Berhampur: Bureaucrat-turned-BJD leader Kartik Pandian Tuesday said the people of Odisha would not like a chief minister who will be remote-controlled by Delhi. The comment of Pandian, a close aide of Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik, came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the BJP will select its CM on []

New Delhi: Terming the alleged recruitment scam in West Bengal systemic fraud, the Supreme Court Tuesday said authorities were duty-bound to maintain the digitised records pertaining to the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing a batch of petitions []

New Delhi: Prominent celebrities, including filmmaker Karan Johar, actors Sidharth Malhotra, Ranbir Kapoor, and Vikrant Massey, have urged their fans to vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Johar Monday evening shared a video on his Instagram page, in which the celebrities asked their followers to exercise their franchise in the ongoing polls. Now that []

Bengaluru: People queued up early Tuesday outside the 28,269 polling stations of 14 Parliamentary constituencies to exercise their franchise in Karnataka. Former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa along with families of his two sons, state President B.Y. Vijayendra, and Shivamogga BJP candidate B.Y. Raghavendra cast their votes at booth number 137 in Shikaripura town in Shivamogga []

Bhawanipatna: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday alleged that his opponents remember the people of the state only during elections and have no sincerity towards them. Addressing back-to-back election rallies in Bhawanipatna and Khariar in the Kalahandi Lok Sabha constituency, Patnaik claimed that they disappeared after the elections. Leaders of the opposition party tell lies []

New Delhi: The Congress Monday said the BJP has steadily reduced Odishas central funding in recent years and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of neglecting the people of the state. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed questions to the prime minister ahead of his rallies in Odisha. Why has Odishas central funding steadily decreased? Will []

Mendhar/Jammu: Several people were detained for questioning Sunday as a massive search operation for terrorists behind the Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Poonch district entered the second day, officials said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Anand Jain and senior officers of the Army and intelligence agencies visited the ambush []

Bhubaneswar: The decades-long territorial dispute over Kotia villages, nestled in the picturesque hills of Eastern Ghats along the border of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, has once again come to the fore during the ongoing general elections across the nation. With territorial rights being claimed by both the states, the matter is currently in the Supreme []