Bhubaneswar: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur Tuesday claimed that BJP is pro-poor and its government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pulled more than 18.5 crore people in the country from below the poverty line. The people of the country believe in...
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday laid the foundation stone for Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (HBHRC) near here and said Odisha will get a world-class cancer care, research and innovation center by December 2025. The state-of-the-art facility and research center at NISER...
Jajpur: Five people including two women sustained burn injuries after a cooking gas cylinder caught fire following a leak in Odisha's Jajpur district, police said Tuesday. The incident happened at Badabiruhan village in the district Monday. The two women who sustained severe burn injuries have...
Bhubaneswar: It was a close shave for 30 people as their bus hit the guard wall of a bridge over the Mahanadi in Odisha's Cuttack district Tuesday, and remained hanging for quite some time before they were rescued, police said. The accident happened on the...
Bhubaneswar: A minor fire broke out in the main building of Odisha Lok Seva Bhawan (secretariat) Tuesday, an official said. However, the fire was immediately doused and no one was hurt in the incident, said the official. "A minor fire broke out at the Revenue...
Rayagada: With both the Jhanjabati and the Nagavali rivers changing courses rapidly, people in this town are living in mortal fear. Jhanjabati incidentally is a distributary of the Nagavali river. Both the rivers are located on two sides of this town. Initially, residents of this...
Hatadihi: Two bikers were killed Monday after a truck ran over them at Biranchipur Square about 500 metres from Nandipada police station in Keonjhar district. The deceased bikers were identified as Indramani Sethi, 40, and Rabindra Peda, son of Kuni Peda of Sulagadia village under...
Joda: A tribal youth here in Keonjhar district has shot to fame and carved a niche for himself as a singer by belting out songs in ‘Ho’ language. The songs have become a rage on YouTube. Soma Purty, 24, son of a farmer and Pala...
Berhampur: A large number of people demonstrated outside the Ganjam railway station in Odisha Monday, demanding stops for two trains -- Puri-Tirupati Express and Bhubaneswar-Jagdalpur Hirakhand Express. Besides members of different local organisations, Chhatrapur MLA Subash Chandra Behera, former deputy speaker of state assembly Ram...
Bhubaneswar: The opposition BJP and Congress are misleading the people with false information, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleged Monday, maintaining that they have been rejected earlier and the same would happen again. Addressing party workers while launching the BJD's 'Jan Sampark Padayatra', Patnaik alleged...
China finds itself in a bind for its tacit support to Russia in its war against Ukraine. As the conflict...
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At a civil society meeting in Bangalore this week, the question was asked if a Hindu Rashtra was on the...
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