Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik Saturday alleged that the BJP government in Odisha has shattered the dreams of job aspirants with frequent cancellations of competitive exams. Patnaik's comment comes a day after the question papers of the Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery (ANM) examination leaked before the...
Bhubaneswar: Marine biologist Debasish Mahapatro has recorded the first-ever bloom of the jellyfish species Lobonemoides gracilis Light, 1914 in Indian waters, only the second such sighting in Asia. The large swarming event was observed along Odisha’s ecologically sensitive Gahirmatha coast between September 27 and 28,...
Visakhapatnam: India skipper KL Rahul won the toss and opted to bowl against South Africa in the deciding third and final One-day International here Saturday. India made one change to the side that lost the second ODI at Raipur, bringing in Tilak Varma in place...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Friday announced a new scheme, the Mukhyamantri Kanya Bibaha Yojana (MKBY). Under this scheme, the bride will receive Rs 51,000, of which Rs 35,000 will be directly transferred to her bank account through DBT. In addition, Rs 10,000 will be provided...
Koraput: In a decisive action against land encroachment, the Koraput administration has demolished an illegal eco-retreat that had come up at Talamali, a major tourist attraction in Semiliguda block, officials said Friday. Revenue officials and police personnel jointly carried out the enforcement drive. Around 70...
Nilagiri: The headmaster and an assistant teacher of Begunia UGUP School in Nilagiri block of Balasore district were suspended Friday after a video showing a Class IV boy chained to his bed in the school hostel went viral. Acting on the direction of the Nilagiri...
Brajarajnagar: Vigilance officials Friday arrested a forester attached to the Bandhabahal section of the Brajarajnagar forest range in Jharsuguda district for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000. According to Vigilance sources, Forester Gauranga Sahu had demanded the bribe from a resident for permitting the...
Keonjhar: Forest officials Friday discovered the carcass of a female elephant, estimated to be 8-10 years old, near Kasada village under the Suakati section of the Bhuyan Juanga Pirha range in the Keonjhar forest division. Although the exact cause of death has not yet been...
Kendrapara: During an ongoing verification drive aimed at identifying suspected Bangladeshi immigrants in this coastal district, law-enforcement authorities have so far identified three individuals believed to be illegal settlers, officials said. Police sources confirmed that the verification of several other suspected immigrants is still underway....
Mumbai/Bhubaneswar: Airfares reached levels never seen before Friday, with a one-way one-stop economy-class SpiceJet Kolkata-Mumbai flight ticket for December 6 costing up to Rs 90,000, and a similar ticket of Air India for Mumbai-Bhubaneswar going up to Rs 84,485, according to the airlines’ websites. A...
Andhra Pradesh seems to have decided that the safest way to navigate the future is to stop time itself, at...
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Despite the newfound bonhomie between China and India in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war, China is...
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In its latest annual review, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assigned a ‘C’ grade to India’s national accounts statistics...
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