Metro

Bhubaneswar: Cold wave conditions gripped Odisha Wednesday with the mercury falling below 10 degrees Celsius in several districts, officials said. G Udayagiri in Kandhamal district was the coldest place in the state at 8.4 degrees Celsius, followed by Kirei in Sundargarh at 9.2 degrees Celsius...

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court has directed the Puri civic body to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family members of a 4-year-old minor boy who was killed by a pack of stray dogs in Puri district in December 2016. The court...

Cuttack: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha Wednesday released the timetable for the upcoming Class-X (matriculation) examinations that are scheduled to take place between February 20 and March 4 next year. The board, through a press release, informed that the Annual High School Certificate...

Ranchi/ Bhubaneswar: The Income-tax department has deployed a ground-scanning radar machine at Congress MP Dhiraj Sahu's house in Ranchi as part of its ongoing searches against an Odisha-based distillery firm owned by the leader's family and linked entities in which it has made a record...

Bhubaneswar: The Congress Tuesday announced that the party would hold month-long demonstrations across Odisha over issues related to students and farmers. Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Sarat Pattanayak said its student wing activists will stage protests in colleges and universities against setting up of...

Bhubaneswar: In yet another instance of deteriorating law and order situation in the Capital City, unidentified burglars struck at five flats in one night at an apartment in Gadakana area, under Mancheshwar police limits here, before decamping with gold ornaments, cash and other valuables with...

Bhubaneswar/ Bolangir: The Income Tax department winded up its six-day search operation Tuesday and left the country-liquor manufacturing unit in Odisha's Bolangir district after recovering more than Rs350 crore in unaccounted cash and about 3 kilograms of gold, officials said. As the raids were completed,...

Bhubaneswar: Former Governor of Odisha Ganeshi Lal had issued 319 grants from his discretionary funds totalling more than Rs 6 crore to Haryana-based recipients between FY 2018-19 and FY 2023-24, according to an RTI response received from the Governor's office. Notably, Lal- who hails from...

Bhubaneswar: High-profile honey trap case prime accused Archana Nag Tuesday walked out of Jharpara prison here after remaining behind the bars for around 14 months. Immediately after her release, she went to a law college to appear for her law examination, for which she had...

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Odisha will dispatch Plus-II practical examination materials from the council’s head office to all the examination centres from December 26 onwards, an official letter informed. The materials are expected to reach all centres by December 31, the...