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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...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly Tuesday was adjourned till 4 pm in the wake of protests by the opposition BJP members who demanded the expunge of words like "anti-people" uttered by chief minister Naveen Patnaik in his statement made in the House. As soon as the...

Bhubaneswar: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur Tuesday said probe agencies in the country are independent and work as per law, referring to the raids conducted at the premises connected with online portal NewsClick in Delhi. “I need not justify the raid. If someone...

Bhubaneswar: It was a close shave for 30 people as their bus hit the guard wall of a bridge over the Mahanadi in Odisha's Cuttack district Tuesday, and remained hanging for quite some time before they were rescued, police said. The accident happened on the...

Bhubaneswar: A minor fire broke out in the main building of Odisha Lok Seva Bhawan (secretariat) Tuesday, an official said. However, the fire was immediately doused and no one was hurt in the incident, said the official. "A minor fire broke out at the Revenue...

Bhubaneswar: The opposition BJP and Congress are misleading the people with false information, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleged Monday, maintaining that they have been rejected earlier and the same would happen again. Addressing party workers while launching the BJD's 'Jan Sampark Padayatra', Patnaik alleged...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Monday issued heavy rainfall warning for six districts in Odisha. "Sunday's well-marked low-pressure area weakened into a low-pressure area Monday morning and now lies over southwest Jharkhand and adjoining north Chhattisgarh with associated cyclonic circulation extending up to mid-tropospheric...

Bhubaneswar: A 13-year-old boy drowned in a pond in Bhubaneswar's Baramunda area Monday while he was bathing. The victim identified as Om Prakash Pradhan, was a class-VIII student of a residential school of an orphanage in Khandagiri area. The boy and his friends had gone...