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Top INDIA bloc leaders missing from poster at Mahagathbandhan press conference, sparks row

By Odisha News Online Oct 23, 2025 339

PATNA, OCT 23 : The photographs of top INDIA bloc leaders were missing from a banner at the venue of the much-awaited joint press conference of the Mahagathbandhan in Patna on Thursday, triggering a controversy. The banner, the image of which has gone viral on social media, carried only a large photograph of RJD leader […]Continue Reading

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India’s Diwali fireworks set off alarm in Pakistan

By Odisha News Online Oct 21, 2025 512

NEW DELHI, OCT 21 : As skies lit up across India over the weekend for Diwali celebrations, leaving people awash in festivity, a darker haze settled across the border just like it did on this side. In Pakistan’s Punjab province, particularly in capital city Lahore, air quality has declined sharply, prompting concern and emergency response […]Continue Reading

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Post-Diwali smog chokes Delhi: Air quality plunges to ‘very poor’category

By Odisha News Online Oct 21, 2025 331

NEW DELHI, OCT 21 : Delhi residents woke up on Tuesday, a day after the Diwali celebrations, blanketed in a thick, heavy layer of smog as post-festival pollution drove the Air Quality Index (AQI) into the ‘Very Poor’ category. The Supreme Court had allowed the use of green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR between 8 pm and […]Continue Reading

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INS Vikrant gave sleepless nights to Pak: PM Modi’s big praise for Navy on Diwali

By Odisha News Online Oct 20, 2025 334

NEW DELHI, OCT 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the Navy aboard INS Vikrant, saying the warship gave sleepless nights to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. He said he felt fortunate to celebrate Diwali this year among Navy personnel aboard the indigenous aircraft carrier off the coast of Goa and Karwar. “INS Vikrant […]Continue Reading

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Cargo aircraft skids off Hong Kong runway into sea, killing two people

By Odisha News Online Oct 20, 2025 280

HONG KONG, OCT 20 : A cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong runway into the sea when landing early Monday, killing two people. The Emirates flight, arriving from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was landing at Hong Kong International Airport around 3:50 a.m., according to Hong Kong’s airport authority. Four crew members on the plane […]Continue Reading

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River of diyas, chorus of aarti, 2 world records: Ayodhya’s Diwali makes history again

By Odisha News Online Oct 19, 2025 397

UTTAR PRADESH, OCT 19 : Ayodhya, the city of Lord Rama, beamed with the glittering lights of earthen lamps and created history once again, bathing the holy city in a river of over 26 lakh diyas and registering two Guinness World Records in the process on the occasion of chhoti Diwali on Sunday. Uttar Pradesh […]Continue Reading

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Parineeti Chopra, Raghav Chadha welcome baby boy: Arms full, hearts fuller

By Odisha News Online Oct 19, 2025 427

NEW DELHI, OCT 19 :  Actor Parineeti Chopra and politician Raghav Chadha have welcomed their first child, a baby boy. The couple announced the happy news on Chhoti Diwali via a joint social media post, with the caption, “Arms full, our hearts are fuller.” The couple’s Instagram post read, “He’s finally here!…our Baby Boy…And we […]Continue Reading

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Fire breaks out at Dhaka international airport, flight operations suspended

By Odisha News Online Oct 18, 2025 355

DHAKA, OCT 18 : A massive fire broke out on Saturday at the cargo complex of the international airport in Bangladesh’s capital, forcing authorities to suspend all flight operations as thick black smoke engulfed the area. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) said the blaze broke out in […]Continue Reading

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Three Afghan cricketers killed in Pakistan airstrikes: ACB

By Odisha News Online Oct 18, 2025 312

KABUL, OCT 18 : Afghanistan have pulled out of a tri-nation series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka next month after three local cricketers were killed in an attack, the country’s cricket board said on Friday. The ACB said that the players had travelled from Urgun to Sharana in the eastern Paktika province on the Pakistan […]Continue Reading

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208 Maoist cadres surrender at a formal ceremony in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur

By Odisha News Online Oct 17, 2025 314

CHHATTISGARH/JAGDALPUR , OCT 17 : In the largest single-day surrender, as many as 208 cadres, including 110 women naxals, have laid down arms at Reserve Police Line in Jagdalpur (Bastar district), about 300 km south of Raipur, on Friday. The incident has inflicted a big setback to the banned outfit CPI (Maoist) movement in Chhattisgarh. […]Continue Reading