Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government appointed Rajesh Pravakar Patil, a 2005 batch IAS officer, as the new Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Patil, currently serving as Commissioner cum Secretary in Department of Co-operation, will now take charge of BMC. He also has the additional charge...

Keonjhar: Some pictures mimicking the English question paper of annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination reportedly went viral Friday which later fuelled the apprehensions of ‘paper leak’ in Odisha, a source said Saturday. The matter came to the fore after a purported English question paper...

Bhubaneswar: With temperatures soaring unusually in some places in Odisha, the state health department has issued a standard operating procedure (SoP) for hospitals to deal with heat-related emergencies, an official said. The SoP will be implemented at district and sub-district levels from March to July,...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approved 27 new industrial projects to the tune of Rs 6,134 crore across sectors, a senior official said Saturday. The proposals got the state government's nod at a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary PK Jena Friday. The potential sectors include...

Bhubaneswar: In a move to make Mo Bus service more technology-driven and citizen-friendly, the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) Friday launched a new Mo Bus mobile application and scheme for Mo Bus card. The new app will have commuter friendly features like live bus tracking,...

Bhubaneswar: 5T and Nabin Odisha Chairman Kartik Pandian inspected the ongoing Ekamra Development Project in the Old Town area here early Friday morning and directed the officials concerned to complete the project by New Year 2025. During his visit to the site between 6:30 am...

Bhubaneswar: State Public Health director Niranjan Mishra Friday instructed superintendents of all government medical colleges and hospitals (MCHs), chief district medical and public health officers (CDM & PHOs), and health officers to prepare comprehensive action plans to reduce morbidity and mortality due to heat stress...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to remove political posters, hoardings, and graffiti under its jurisdiction given the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. BMC Commissioner Vijay Amruta Kulange said the decision was in line with the Election Commission of India (ECI) guidelines. “Leaders...

Bhubaneswar: In a first for AIIMS Bhubaneswar, surgeons Friday successfully retrieved a liver from a 14-year-old brain dead girl and then sent it to a hospital in New Delhi through a green corridor, the premier institute's executive director, Dr Ashutosh Biswas, said. The girl, Damayanti...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress Friday gave a call for ‘secretariat gherao' February 26 in protest against the “corruption and misrule” by the BJD government in the state. Addressing a press conference here, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattanayak alleged that the BJD has...