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Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD in Odisha has readied two specially-designed buses for Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to tour the state during the campaign trail, party leaders said Thursday. Patnaik, who kicked off the party's campaign from his home turf Hinjili in Ganjam district Wednesday, is...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reeled under severe heatwave conditions Thursday with state capital Bhubaneswar recording 41 degrees Celsius at 11:30am, officials said. Balasore also recorded 41 degrees Celsius, while Jharsuguda was at 40.4 degrees and Hirakud sizzled at 40.2 degrees, they said. The Meteorological Centre at Bhubaneswar...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police, following a review meeting here, has upgraded the security cover of some prominent political leaders of the state ahead of the elections. While Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, 5T Chairman VK Pandian and BJP’s national vice-president Baijayant Panda will get ‘Z’ scale...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Protection of Interests of Depositors (OPID) Court in Balasore has convicted two persons for cheating a non-banking financial company (NBFC) of Rs 1.64 crore by disbursing 13 loans in favour of fictitious loanees by using forged documents, official sources said Wednesday. While...

Bhubaneswar: To address the issues faced by women entrepreneurs in procuring government tenders, Odisha Wonder Women’s Convention 2024 was organised jointly by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Odisha Assembly of Small and Medium Enterprises (OASME) here Wednesday. OASME women's wing chairperson Jyotirmayee Mohanty...

Bhubaneswar: Expressing concern over the dwindling population growth in Odisha, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) state head Mohammad Nadeem Noor said that the demographic transition will have a toll on economic development of the state. “The state’s population growth rate has been constantly declining since...

Bhubaneswar: A ‘lungi versus dhoti’ debate emerged in Odisha politics after Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan hit out at Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for appearing in a video message wearing a lungi. While BJP leaders claimed dhoti was the culture of Odisha and not lungi, those...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of elections, the BJP Wednesday unveiled a ‘chargesheet’ against the nearly 25-year-old BJD government in the state, accusing it of being involved in corruption and irregularities. Accusing the BJP of levelling ‘malicious and defamatory content without evidence’, the BJD moved the Election Commission...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha continued to reel under an intense heatwave as state capital Bhubaneswar Wednesday recorded over 43 degrees Celsius temperature for the second time in two days. According to the evening bulletin of IMD's Regional Centre, Bhubaneswar and Nuapada recorded the state's highest temperature of...

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The Indian football team will have a four-week preparatory camp in Bhubaneswar starting May 10, ahead of its crucial second-round FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers matches against Kuwait and Qatar. The final squad will move to Kolkata June 2 ahead of the...