Metro

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court directed the state government Thursday to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the father of a seven-year-old girl for her "avoidable" death due to a wall collapse at a school in Keonjhar district nine years ago. A division bench,...

Bhubaneswar: As the country gears up to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its Independence, the Odisha government has decided to distribute Tricolour free of cost among people, official sources said. The state government, under its Mission Shakti department, has engaged self-help groups to make 30...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha may bear the brunt of another possible low-pressure area over the weekend, the Met office said Thursday, even as the state continues to reel from pouring rain over the past few days due to depression. Torrential rain has battered several districts due to...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Ocean Technology for protection of its coasts. The MoU was signed between Water Resources Department Engineer in Chief B K Mishra and GA Ramdass, Director, NIOT, Chennai, Wednesday. “The state...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Covid-19 tally rose to 13,21,197 Thursday as 530 more people, including 123 children, tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said. The toll rose to 9,153 as an 80-year-old man succumbed to the disease in Bhadrak district, it said. The state had...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Wednesday accorded in-principle approval to 10 major industrial projects worth 74,620.18 crore, including Adani Enterprises Limited Alumina Refinery, which will generate employment opportunities for over 24,047 people in the state. The projects which got the state government's nod at the High-Level...

Bhubaneswar: AIIMS Bhubaneswar has started its own opioid substitution therapy (OST) centre and an acute care unit to strengthen treatment for addiction and severely-ill psychiatric patients respectively. The OST centre aims to cater to 150-200 patients on a day-to-day basis. It will be a major...

Bhubaneswar: Keeping in view the spread of COVID-19, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has decided not to celebrate ‘Raksha Bandhan Ustav' and urged people to remain alert during the festival, a CMO official said Wednesday. Patnaik has urged the party leaders, workers and other well...

Bhubaneswar: Torrential rain battered several districts of Odisha, leading to collapse of some bridges over swollen rivers and disrupting road connectivity, officials said Wednesday. A depression, which lay above Odisha a day ago, weakened into a well-marked low pressure area (Lopar) over Chhattisgarh and east...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has asked the director-general of police to submit an affidavit on how to tackle elephant poaching, which has assumed alarming proportions recently. The court expressed concern over the poor enforcement of the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA) in the state after...