Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India (ECI) Tuesday ordered the Odisha government to transfer eight officers including two district magistrates, five superintendents of police and an IGP. ECI secretary Rakesh Kumar in a letter to Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena directed him to transfer...

New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday released the list of candidates for eight Lok Sabha and 49 Assembly seats for simultaneous polls in Odisha. Apart from Odisha, the Congress released its list of candidates for three other states including five seats in Andhra Pradesh, three in...

Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress leader and former Odisha minister Ganeswar Behera Tuesday resigned from the primary membership of the party. Behera, who hails from Kendrapara district, sent his resignation letter to Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattanayak. He, however, thanked the party for giving...

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The BJP Tuesday named 112 candidates for the Odisha Assembly polls which will be held alongside the Lok Sabha elections. The party re-nominated 21 of its 22 sitting MLAs in the state. Mohapatra's niece Upasana Mohapatra has got the ticket from the...

Bhubaneswar: Veteran Odia Bhajan singer Shantilata Barik Chhotray passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar Monday evening. She was 64. Her husband Basant Chhotray informed that the singer will be cremated Tuesday at the Swargadwar crematorium in Puri. The popular singer has lent her...

Bhubaneswar: A war of words ensued between the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha over the delay in announcement of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Leaders from both parties Monday again targeted each other...

Puri: Former commissioner of Mumbai Police Arup Patnaik, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections on BJD ticket from Puri, Monday said it would be a “great feeling” if he can serve the people of Odisha after staying out of the state since his school...

Bhubaneswar: Actor turned politician and Lok Sabha MP from Odisha's Kendrapara, Anubhav Mohanty -- who resigned from the primary membership of BJD Saturday -- joined the BJP Monday. Anubhav, who was elected to Rajya Sabha from Odisha as a BJD candidate in 2014 and also...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government announced that all Anganwadi centres in the state will have morning classes from April 2 due to heatwave conditions. All Anganwadi centres in the state will operate from 7 am to 11.30 am from April 2. The time was revised considering...

Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and many other dignitaries Monday greeted the people of Odisha on the occasion of 'Utkal Dibasa'. Odisha Day or 'Utkala Dibasa' marks the formation of Odisha as a separate state on this day...