Metro

Cuttack/Malkangiri: Satbir Singh Riar, a member of Odisha Cricket Association (OCA), has been appointed as manager of the Indian cricket team for the ongoing India versus South Africa Test series. OCA extended greetings to Satbir through its official X (formerly Twitter) account. Congratulations 👏🎉 Mr....

Bhubaneswar: A man wanted by police in several criminal cases was nabbed here in the early hours of Thursday after a brief encounter, an officer said. The man identified as Raghu Biswal sustained a bullet injury in the encounter with a team of Mancheswar police...

Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) in Bhubaneswar is set to receive a pair of cheetahs, six lions, chimpanzees, lemurs, and other animals and birds from Dubai next month, according to an official. The animals will be brought in through an animal exchange programme, said Susanta...

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths Wednesday arrested a senior Odisha administrative service officer for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said. The officer is serving in the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), Bhubaneswar, they said. Acting on a complaint, personnel of the...

Bhubaneswar: Aspirants of various competitive examinations in Odisha have demanded that the upper age limit for Odisha government jobs be increased to 42 years permanently for general category candidates. A memorandum intended for the Chief Minister was submitted Tuesday in this context, one of the...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha police have made elaborate security arrangements for peaceful celebration of New Year's Eve and more than 50 platoons will be deployed in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, a senior police official said Wednesday. Strong action will be taken in cases...

Bhubaneswar: IMD’s Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar in its midday weather bulletin December 27 issued a Yellow Warning for dense fog over several Odisha districts. As per the bulletin, till 8.30am of December 28, dense fog is very likely to occur at one or two places...

Bhubaneswar: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has established a new AI and HPC Research Center (AHRC) to conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative research in the fields of AI and High Performance Computing (HPC), a source said Wednesday. AHRC is designed as a National Research Center...

Bhubaneswar: A pile of wrecked coaches near Bahanaga Bazar railway station in Odisha's Balasore district serves as a grim reminder of the world's deadliest triple train tragedy which claimed nearly 300 lives and left over 1,200 people injured. Despite six months having passed since the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported two fresh COVID-19 cases, pushing the coronavirus tally to five in December so far, a health department official said Wednesday. “In November, we had registered 11 cases while this month, so far, only five cases have been detected. We are closely monitoring...