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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated volunteers and personnel of institutions for their support in the aftermath of the Balasore train disaster and said the state government needs to boost the capacity of response teams to deal with such unpredictable disasters. Among those felicitate...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar Sunday informed that a cyclonic circulation lies over the northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood at 5.8 km above mean sea level. The weather agency also issued Yellow Warning for thunderstorm in different districts of Odisha Monday....

Bhubaneswar:  UK-based SRAM & MRAM Group is in advanced stage of discussion with semiconductor makers SK Hynix and GlobalFoundries to collaborate for its proposed Rs 30,000 crore chip manufacturing plant and a testing facility in India’s Odisha, a top company official said. SRAM & MRAM...

Bhubaneswar: OPID Court Cuttack has remanded for five more days to Gurtej Singh Sidhu and Nirod Das, the two accused in the Solar Techno Alliance (STA) Crypto-Ponzi scam, an EOW source said Sunday. The source said it had made a prayer for an extension of...

Bhubaneswar: Out of 300 to 400 samples that are being tested for dengue at Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar, around 50-60 cases are being detected positive on a daily basis, the Superintendent of the hospital informed Sunday. According to a source from the hospital, as many...

Bhubaneswar: A tribal body, which has been protesting against bauxite mining in the eco-sensitive Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Odisha for over a decade, has demanded immediate withdrawal of UAPA cases against its members. The demand comes after the police framed charges...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sunday brought out an initiative called 'Team SHINE' (Sanitation and Hygiene Inspection for Neat Environment) with the objective to enforce cleanliness in Bhubaneswar. During an event Sunday, Bhubaneswar Mayor Sulochana Das and BMC Commissioner Vijay Amruta Kulange launched this...

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Bhagwat K Karad has asked banks and civic bodies to collaborate to achieve the goals of the PM SVANidhi scheme, which was launched to help street vendors get easy loans. Chairing a regional-level meeting Saturday to assess the scheme's progress in Bihar,...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Saturday busted an interstate job fraud racket that was using bank accounts of gullible people by paying them some paltry amount, and duping scores of job aspirants. The police arrested Rajesh Samantaray, 38, of New Rajeev Colony area in Haryana, Raj...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader and Union Forest Minister Bhupender Yadav Saturday said that the saffron party will fight alone in Odisha in the next Assembly election and form government. Speaking to reporters here, Yadav said, “There is no alliance between BJD and BJP. We will...