Metro

Bhubaneswar: Former Deputy Speaker of the Odisha Assembly, Rama Chandra Panda, sitting MLA from Soro Assembly seat Parshuram Dhada, BJD Athamallik MLA Ramesh Chandra Sai, and former Phulbani MLA Debendra Kanhar have resigned from the primary membership of the BJD in Odisha. These three leaders...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday announced localised public holidays in respective constituencies during the four-phased Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Elections in the state will be held May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. "The government of Odisha has been pleased to declare...

Bhubaneswar: A 48-year-old man died Thursday after falling into a sewage manhole at Mahima Nagar under CRRI police limits in Odisha's Cuttack district. The deceased was identified as Zakir Khan of Murshidabad in West Bengal. "Khan used to work as a daily wager under a...

Bhubaneswar: In the lead-up to the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in Odisha, there's a flurry of party-switching among leaders, with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) nominating around 30 per cent turncoats as candidates. Out of the 20 candidates announced by the BJD for...

Bhubaneswar: The PhD Scholar at Central University of Odisha (CUO) Ayusmita Naik was felicitated by Union Minister of Education, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University here recently. She was facilitated along with other researchers in a...

Bhubaneswar: The state government declared Special Casual Leave (SCL) of one day for the government employees who will be deployed on ‘poll duty’ for Simultaneous General Elections (SGE) and SCL of two days to enable them to vote. In a letter to all the department...

Bhubaneswar: In a major achievement by the doctors at the Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a 61- year-old male patient suffering from prostate cancer was completely cured following an advanced laparoscopic surgery. A team led by Sumanta Mishra, associate professor and HOD of Urology...

Bhubaneswar: The twin city Commissionerate Police Wednesday claimed to have arrested 11 members of a notorious gang involved in over two dozens of petty crimes like snatching and bike lifting here. The accused were identified as Binod Das, 22, Anil Das, 19, M Raja, 35,...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD and the principal opposition BJP in Odisha have traded allegations of election Model Code of Conduct (MCC) violations and submitted memorandums to the state's chief electoral officer (CEO) against each other. The BJD accused BJP's Bargarh MP candidate Pradeep Purohit and...

Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday announced the second list of candidates for Assembly polls and the third list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls for the upcoming simultaneous polls scheduled to be held in the state between May 13 and...