Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha police arrested an absconding taxi driver who allegedly robbed a 72-year-old tourist from the Netherlands in January, an officer said Thursday. Following the robbery, Anthony Von Arkel had to stay at a shelter home for beggars for over a month before the state...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday inaugurated the Online Incentive Management System developed by Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC), marking the beginning of a new era of e-governance in the state. This system allows entrepreneurs to submit applications for incentives under various policies related to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday announced a 4 per cent increase in dearness allowance and dearness relief for state government employees and pensioners. With the latest hike, the DA and DR rose to 50 per cent from 46 per cent. The enhanced amount...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the Lok Sabha and the Odisha assembly elections, the state government Thursday announced that the daily minimum wages of workers would be raised in varied amounts. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the hike will benefit lakhs of workers belonging to unskilled, semi-skilled,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal Thursday asserted that his party will form the next government in the state 'on its own', amid talks of a pre-poll alliance with the BJD. Samal, who along with senior state BJP leaders held a meeting with Union Home...

Bhubaneswar: In two separate incidents, the Commissionerate Police has arrested nine historysheeters when they were planning to burgle houses in Bhubaneswar, an official said, Wednesday. In the first incident, Chandrasekharpur police officials, acting on a tipoff, raided a secluded location near Rail Auditorium in Bhubaneswar...

Bhubaneswar: A local court Wednesday sentenced a man to ten years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for sexually assaulting a differently-abled woman. The man is identified as Krushna Chandra Das, a neighbour from the victim’s village under Balipatna police station limits. In his judgment, Additional Sessions...

Bhubaneswar: With the possibility of a pre-poll alliance between the BJP and the BJD still lingering, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has convened a meeting of his party's senior leaders Thursday afternoon, party sources said. The BJD, which had March 6, a day after Prime...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday inaugurated an integrated sports complex at Jeypore in Koraput district and 26 multipurpose indoor stadiums spread over 12 districts of the state. Patnaik said his government gives priority to sports for building a strong youth society in Odisha....

Bhubaneswar: The mercury Wednesday touched the 39 degrees Celsius-mark in parts of Odisha, recording the highest temperature so far this month, weather officials said. According to the Bhubaneswar Metrological Centre, Boudh was the hottest place in the state at 39.5 degrees Celsius, closely followed by...