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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,...

Bhubaneswar: A wild tusker was killed in a forest in Odisha after eating some fruit or vegetables suspected to have been stuffed with crude bombs that exploded in the animal's mouth, an official said Tuesday. The sub-adult tusker (about 14 years old) was in grievous...

Bhubaneswar: Kalyani Steel Limited has proposed to invest Rs 26,000 crore to set up a titanium metal and aerospace components manufacturing and integrated advanced specialty steel and automotive components manufacturing complex at Gajamara in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, an official said Tuesday. The state Cabinet Monday...

Bhubaneswar: Collaboration between All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is needed to strengthen military physiology, said AIIMS Bhubaneswar executive director Ashutosh Biswas. He said this while speaking at a workshop 'AIIMS-Physiomeet' organised by AIIMS Bhubaneswar here recently....

Jajpur: Around 95 per cent of students pursuing Plus-III and Post Graduation courses in Odisha will receive 'Nua-O' scholarship, Chairman of 5T and Nabin Odisha Kartik Pandian announced Tuesday during ‘Nua-O’ event in Jajpur district. Pandian informed that the decision was taken by Chief Minister...