New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Water Resources has recently filed a status report in the Supreme Court apprising the apex court about the steps taken by it for the resolution of the Polavaram dispute among Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh. The ministry has...
Bhubaneswar: Health and Family Welfare Secretary Shalini Pandit directed officials of the State Health Assurance Society (SHAS) Friday to monitor services and facilities available to patients at the private hospitals empanelled under the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY). Altogether 765 super-speciality private hospitals have partnered...
Bhubaneswar: A passenger bus on its way from Kolkata to Odisha’s Paradip caught fire Friday night near Kharagpur in West Bengal. While the number of passengers travelling aboard the ill-fated vehicle could not be ascertained, a local source suggested that as many as 36 people...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday inaugurated Eastern India's first design and R&D unit of Synopsys -- a global leader in semiconductor tool, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and associated services -- in Bhubaneswar. The company said the Bhubaneswar Centre will witness 300 plus...
Bhubaneswar: Opposition Congress Friday accused Odisha Governor Raghubar Das of breaching protocol by visiting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's residence and meeting him without having any justified reasons. The allegation was levelled by former minister and senior Congress leader Panchanan Kanungo here a day after the...
Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in Bhubaneswar arrested one more accused in connection with the Solar Techno Alliance (STA) crypto ponzi scam, an EOW source said Friday. The source added that Sushil Kumar Tudu, the founder member and Jharkhand head of STA India, was...
Cuttack: Masked miscreants allegedly looted cash over Rs1.5 crore from an ATM cash-carrying vehicle near Godijharia area under Tigiria police limits in Odisha’s Cuttack district Friday, said a source. The source added that around eight masked miscreants with firearms chased the cash-carrying vehicle and took...
Puri: At least 10 devotees fainted inside the Shree Jagannath Temple here Friday and were taken to the district headquarters hospital here, police said. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) chief administrator Ranjan Kumar Das said the heavy rush of devotees was responsible for the...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has signed an MoU for setting up a second campus of the World Skill Center (WSC) here, an official said. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed Thursday with the Singapore-based ITE Education Services (ITEES) for establishing and managing this global...
New Delhi: A ninth-century idol of Maa Kotrakshi, an incarnation of goddess Chamunda, stolen from a temple at Darpanigarh village of Jajpur district in January 2021, was handed over to the Odisha government by officials of the Customs department here in the presence of Union...
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