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Bhubaneswar: Keeping Valentine’s Day in view, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), India has come up with an innovative campaign using themes from Valentine’s Week to encourage young people to choose vegetarianism by quitting non-vegetarian foods. The organisation has placed billboards near universities...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD in Odisha Wednesday announced that it will support BJP's Ashwini Vaishnaw in the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in the state. Earlier in the day, the candidature of Union minister Vaishnaw was announced by the BJP. Soon after the development, Chief Minister...

New Delhi: The BJP Wednesday named Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan its Rajya Sabha candidates from Odisha and Madhya Pradesh respectively. If elected, a near certainty, it will be the second Rajya Sabha term for the two ministers. From Madhya Pradesh, the BJP...

Bhubaneswar: ODM Public School’s Satyendu Kar secured top rank in the state in the JEE Main 2024 (SessionI) Examinations, the results of which were declared, Tuesday. Several students of the school also demonstrated excellent performances by scoring top ranks across the state. Kar scored 99.98...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY), a flagship scheme of the Odisha government, has been conferred with National SKOCH (Gold) award for 2023. Chief Executive Officer of State Health Assurance Society (SHAS) Brundha D along with Additional Secretary Health & Family Welfare Department and Joint...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the upcoming polls for the Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly, the state government Tuesday decided to double the financial assistance under its MAMATA Yojana for pregnant and lactating women. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved a proposal in this regard. As per the...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police here, Tuesday, claimed to have busted an interstate car lifting gang under Chandrasekharpur police limits and arrested five persons, including two women, in this connection. The arrested persons include two couples and another man, said a police official. The accused couples...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday handed over ‘Chief Minister’s awards for excellence in healthcare services’. As many as 153 awards were given to individual healthcare professionals and institutions in six categories in phase 1 of the award ceremony. The awards were given in a...

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court has held that ‘customers’ cannot be prosecuted under Sections 370(3) and 370A(2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for trafficking and sexually exploiting sex workers when no evidence is available on record that such persons were trafficked by them or...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) Tuesday issued an order reducing the power tariff for domestic consumers by 10 paise in each slab for the 2024-25 financial year. The existing tariff for domestic consumers is Rs 3 per unit for the first 50 units,...