Metro

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has said that if a consensual physical relationship was based on a promise of marriage which could not be materialised for some reasons, it cannot be considered rape. The high court quashed the charge of rape faced by a Bhubaneswar-based...

Bhubaneswar: State-owned Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) has introduced a virtual reality-based programme to provide safety and operational training to its 17,000-strong workforce, an official statement said Friday. The company has earmarked a budget of Rs 6.5 crore for skill enhancement among coal miners, the Coal...

Puri: The Chief Administrator of the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Ranjan Das Thursday supported the demand made by Daitapati Nijog regarding a dress code for devotees visiting Srimandir. Das requested the devotees visiting the 12th-century shrine to wear clothes that are in line with...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar in its weather alert July 7 issued a Yellow Warning for heavy rainfall in several districts of Odisha. Upto 8.30 AM of July 8: As per the Yellow Warning (be updated), heavy rainfall is very likely to...

Bhubaneswar: As part of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's ‘zero tolerance' policy on corruption, the state government Friday cracked the whip on nine officials, dismissing three of them. While three tainted officials were dismissed from service, the government permanently stopped the pension of six others...

Bhubaneswar: Sleuths of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha police have arrested accused Krishnananda N from his native state Karnataka in connection with an online ponzi app scam. The accused has cheated people through the ‘GETSO Earning app’. The EOW was able to...

Bhubaneswar: The Income Tax Department officials for the second day Thursday conducted raids at 20 places linked to the Odisha-based real estate major DN Group on allegations of tax evasion. While both the company and IT department remained silent on the development, sources said that...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar in its weather forecast of July 6 issued a Yellow Warning for heavy rainfall in several districts of Odisha. The cyclonic circulation over the north and adjoining central Bay of Bengal now lies over Gangetic West Bengal...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday asked his party's youth wing leaders to remain active on social media and ensure that everybody is informed about the "pro-people" initiatives of his government. "As you know, social media is a...

Cuttack: Contractual workers of Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer in Cuttack demonstrated during the visit of Odisha Health Minister Niranjan Pujari demanding regularisation of their jobs Thursday, a source said. According to the source, Pujari visited the cancer institute to attend its general...