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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday held that the abolition of the Odisha Administrative Tribunal was constitutionally valid. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud rejected the challenge to the decision by the tribunal bar association. "We hold that abolition of Orissa Administrative Tribunal...

Bhubaneswar: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, Mamata Banerjee arrived Tuesday here. Even though West Bengal officials have termed the trip as ‘personal’, Mamata Banerjee will meet her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik on March 23. After the meeting she will leave for...

Bhubaneswar:  The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar Tuesday issued Orange Warning for as many as 12 districts of Odisha. Till 8.30 AM of March 22, the weather agency predicts that thunderstorms with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph along with hailstorms...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police have recovered a huge quantity of explosives and other incriminating materials were hidden in a dump during a combing operation in Andhra Pradesh. A source in DGP office said police have seized 50 to 60 kg of Codex wire, six tiffin boxes,...

Bhubaneswar: As many as eight civilians and three security personnel were killed during 12 exchanges of fire incidents between security personnel and Maoist during 2022. This was mentioned in the white paper published by the state home department of Odisha, which was laid before the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered a 14.65 per cent rise in cognisable offences in 2022 as compared to 2021, according to a white paper presented in the assembly. No political violence or communal incidents were reported in Odisha in 2022, it stated, adding the state also recorded...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 970 people have drowned to death while bathing in various rivers in Odisha during the last three years, MoS Home Tusharkanti Behera told the state Assembly Monday. In response to a question from Souvic Biswal (BJD), the Minister said out of...

Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha, will begin the evaluation of answer papers for the matriculation examination April 3. BSE president Ramasis Hazra Monday said that around 5 lakh students appeared for the examination and barring some mistakes, the exam passed off smoothly....

Bhubaneswar: A total of 2,26,559 government posts are lying vacant in Odisha as per calculations till December 2021, state Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari told the Assembly Monday. Pujari gave the information while replying to a question by BJP lawmaker Kusum Tete. Pujari quoting the Annual...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to provide expensive high-end diagnostic services free of cost to the people irrespective of their income level, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Niranjan Pujari said Monday. The high-end pathological tests would be provided through outsourcing agencies selected through...