Author: Samikhsya Bureau

Mary Com has made it to the pages of history by winning the World championship title for the sixth time in boxing in the 48 kg category in New Delhi. In the summit clash the boxing legend beat Ukrainian Hanna Okhata and the win has come to her 16 years after since she won her maiden title in world championship.

Ayodhya wears a saffron look as thousands of people with placards and posters throng for the event for which Shiva Sena chief Uddhav Thakrey and Viswa Hindu Parishad visiting others to push the agenda of Ram Temple . Heavy security arrangement is on the start to tackle the situation in any eventuality. The atmosphere is charged with as lanes and by lanes seem abuzz with activities, reports suggest.

The model who had alleged sexual harassment against filmmaker Subas Ghai has withdrawn after her mother fell sick. Kate Sharma had levelled an allegation that Ghai tried to kiss her by force which sparked the spat. However, she decided to withdraw the case as she has to be with her family and take care of her ailing mother.

In a tragic bus accident in Karnataka 25 were feared dead when the bus fell into a canal in Pndavapura today. The incident took place near Kangadamaradi as the bus was bound for Mandya. Several injured were admitted to the hospital as locals worked hard to pull the bus from the water. The bus was carrying about about 30 people when it plunged into the canal.

The annuual tribal fair in Bhubaneswar was today inaugurated by the chief minister Naveen Patnaik. The fair draws participation of dozens of tribal communities from Odisha who showcase here their lifestyle, art & culture and livlihood means. The fair has about 73 stalls of several tribes of Odisha that attracts visitors from home and abroad. Even tribal food products remain in display for sale.

The SIT, probing the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh, has named Hindu right wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha in its additional charge sheet filed before a Bengaluru court. The SIT submitted the 9,235-page charge sheet in the Principal Civil and Sessions court here Friday.

Ram Sutar, the man who designed the tallest statue of the world has been assigned by a non-profit Buddhist body in Gujrat to design a 80 ft statue of Buddha in Gandhinagar. Sutar, in his early 90s, has jobs in kitty designing statue of Shivaji (400ft) and Ambedkar (250ft) to be installed in Mumbai.

There is a debate over the legalising of marijuana for in India. The advocacy floated by few scientists and the Congress MP S. Tharoor . Reports say that scientists have told that they are making efforts to advocate its legalisation and a report in this regard shall be prepared soon. The CSIR-IIIM is association with the Bombay Hemp Company are working out on it.

They and lawmakers and hold the view that, the best way forward is the cannabis is through a compound called canabidiol.

Bharatiya Janata Party has laid the red carpet for the former IAS Aparajita Sarangi by announcing that she will be pitched for the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seat in 2019. This was told by the senior BJP leaderBiswabhushan Harichandan in an inter-action with the media. Hari chandan further said that his son Prthviraj will contest from Chilika instead of Bhubaneswar. However , it may be recalled that in 2014 Prithviraj Harichandan had lost his deposit while contesting from an Assembly seat in Bhubaneswar.

The licence of Air Odisha has been cancelled by the Civil Aviation Ministry on the ground of poor performance. It automatically stops it’s sixty air routes . This was brought to the notice by the Director of the Biju Patnaik International Airport Suresh Chandra Hota. The airlines had failed to operate 75 % of the flights which led to the cancellation of the licence.

At  last the former BJD veteran Damodar Rout has   launched of his new political outfit as Biju Samata Kranti Dal(BSKD). He made it public at a press  on Friday with Braja Kishore Trpathy (of Samata Kranti Dal) and Jangeswar Babu present in the meet. However, conspicuous by his absence was Baijayant Panda who was touted once to be a probable associate of Rout.

It is yet to be known as who are others to follow Rout who claimed today at the press meet that, the BSKD will espouse the ideals of late Biju Patnaik and tro to put a halt on the monopoly of the BJD regime in Odisha.

It has happened in a hotel room in Noida where a youth, Mohit, was reported to have killed himself after shooting at his girl friend. The incident took place on Thursday. The deceased’s brother has however dubbed the entire incident as designed by some one. Mohit’s brother and family are waiting for his father to arrive who will file the FIR.

First the Rs.3000 cr Statue of Unity extravaganza, then one in Karnataka outsourced through a bid and now in Andhra Pradesh where Modi’s political bete noire Chandrababu Naidu is out with an idea of another extravaganza.To outflank others, Naidu has finalized building 250 metre assembly building to stand taller than Statute of Unity.The structure shall show an upside -down flyover consisting three floors.

Stunt costs two lives when two bikers died after falling about 30 feet from the Signature bridge in national capital Delhi. According to reports the duo had tried to do some stunt and fell down after losing control of the bike. However, the real cause remains in dark as no eye witness has come out to say anything.

It has remained a lingering problem whether the deep interior (garbhagriha) of Sun temple as its clinical treatment is hanging in balance since 2015 post Central Building Research Institute report in 2015 and 2017 as the ASI has not taken up the follow-up to open the ‘garbhagriha’. Fear is that if the measures not taken then any measure natural calamity can cause serious damage to it, say experts.

A customer at a hotel or restaurant can always deny to pay the service charges as mandated by the Consumer Affairs ministry a year back. If one wants can pay as desired by him and such amounts must to the wallets of staff and workers. If any management is not doing that then they will be liable to pay income tax , said the IT department.

A dead whale found across Indonesian shore has given a wake up call. It’s stomach contained 5.9 kg of plastic waste which include 115 cups, four bottles, 25 bags, 2 flip-flops and about a thousand other pieces. It was not ascertained if the cause of death of it was the waste or not.

It was no miracle but human effort and an exemplary achievement that the ‘ leaning tower of Pisa’ has straighten up considerably after years of hard work.  In fact a restoration work had started 17 years back . Leaning tower leans about half a degree less  and had lost 4 cms of the tilt , according to the University of Pisa. This tower which dates back to 1173 started leaning after construction.

The tribe that resides in the Sentinel Island of Andaman, known as Sentinelese , according to reports , live there for last 55,000 years and their population is between 40 to 500. The geographic isolation and nature of life they live must have inbred a dislike for outsiders so are they known to reject intruders. However, after 2004 tsunami a film showed the tribe was shown shooting at a patrol helicopter on patrol.