Metro

Hangzhou: Odisha's Javelin thrower, Kishore Jena Wednesday bagged a Silver medal for India at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Jena's compatriot and Tokyo Olympics medalist Neeraj Chopra won a gold as Indian athletes continued their sensational run, claiming seven medals in the athletics competition at the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday approved 429 road development projects for the residential colonies in Bhubaneswar, Balianta and Jatni blocks. Chief Minister’s office sources said a sum of Rs 39.25 lakh will be spent for implementation of these projects. Patnaik directed the officials...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD Wednesday appointed its MP Manas Ranjan Mangaraj as party chief whip in Rajya Sabha. "Manas Ranjan Mangaraj, MP, Rajya Sabha is hereby appointed as chief whip of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Rajya Sabha with immediate effect," the party said in a...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approved a proposal to expand the coverage of a scheme to all health centres to improve infrastructure in these facilities in four years, an official said Wednesday. The state government had earlier decided to transform 147 health facilities under the...

Bhubaneswar: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has suspected fraud and corruption in the implementation of the post-matric scholarship (PMS) scheme under direct benefit transfer (DBT) in Odisha. In its report on the performance audit of the implementation of DBT in payment of...

Bhubaneswar: With the opposition raising questions over a "mysterious woman" accompanying Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to his visit to Vatican City last year, the BJD chief clarified that the woman is named Shradha and she is his physiotherapist. Clearing the air before the end...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha received heavy rain in the last 24 hours due to southwest monsoon, the Met department Tuesday forecast more downpour for one more day. As many as 16 districts in Odisha, including Cuttack and Khurda, of which Bhubaneswar is a part, have...

University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified a list of fake universities in the country. The Commission has written to the state government departments of higher education, principal secretaries and states to take needed action against the fake institutions, a source said Tuesday. “I would like...

Bhubaneswar: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur Tuesday claimed that BJP is pro-poor and its government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pulled more than 18.5 crore people in the country from below the poverty line. The people of the country believe in...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday laid the foundation stone for Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (HBHRC) near here and said Odisha will get a world-class cancer care, research and innovation center by December 2025. The state-of-the-art facility and research center at NISER...