Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Thursday arrested an additional director of a real estate firm for his alleged involvement in a cheating Rs15 crore cheating case. The accused is Santosh Kumar Rath, additional director of real estate company Mishra Creations Pvt. Ltd., who...

Cuttack: It appears that the civic authorities have learned no lesson from the past as open drains in the Millennium City here continue to claim precious lives. And, this time a sanitation worker died after falling into an open drain in Barapathar area of Buxi...

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) Wednesday released the second merit list in Science, Commerce and Arts streams for admission into various Plus-II courses at several higher secondary schools in Odisha for the academic session of 2023-24. The list was published on the...

Bhubaneswar: In an attempt to lure more customers, a few restaurants here have latched on to the idea of ‘Happy Hours’ (HH), a recent marketing strategy during which a restaurant or bar offers services at reduced prices. However, a few restro-bars are duping customers taking...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar in its weather report of July 19 informed that a cyclonic circulation persists over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal. Under its influence, a low-pressure area is likely to form over the northwest and adjoining westcentral...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday announced financial assistance of Rs 56 crore to the kendu leaf workers in the third phase for 2022 crop year, said a source. More than eight lakh kendu leaf workers will be benefitted from the announcement, the source...

Cuttack: Eminent writer and Odisha Sahitya Akademi's secretary Prabodh Rout passed away Tuesday while receiving medical care at a private hospital in Cuttack. Rout had been admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital due to a road accident few days ago. The accident...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday inaugurated the Gymnastics High-Performance Centre and the new Hockey High-Performance Centre at the Kalinga Stadium. The Gymnastics High Performance Centre is a joint initiative with ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India while the Hockey High Performance Centre is in partnership...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday announced that the amount of insurance coverage for working journalists and their dependents has been hiked from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh per annum. This will benefit 8,717 working journalists and their families under Gopabandhu Sambadika...

Bhubaneswar: The Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Commissionerate Police Tuesday busted a robbery gang named ‘Chadi and Baniyan’ gang and arrested its 11 members. The police said that the gang was involved in a series of house burglary cases in different areas of Bhubaneswar city. Last night, during patrolling,...