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Cuttack: The annual Class-X board examination began across 3,218 centres in Odisha Friday. The examination will continue till March 17, 2023. The Summative Assessment-II of Class-X students is conducted by Board Of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha. BSE president Ramashis Hazra said the examination started at 8...

Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday slammed the BJP-led central government for raising the price of LPG and slashing the quota of five kg of free rice to beneficiaries. These decisions are “anti-women”, claimed Patnaik, who had been supporting the schemes...

Bhubaneswar: Women in Odisha's tribal-dominated Keonjhar district are now operating Heavy Earth Moving Machinery (HEMM) in Joda-Koida mining region. Nine women are engaged by JSW Steel in such operations. Thirty-seven-year-old Shanti Lakra said, "We never rode a motorcycle but are now operating HEMM." She said...

Bhubaneswar: With rain eluding the state since October, forest fires are raging in 142 places in various districts, which is the highest in the country as of Tuesday, a senior official said. According to the Forest Survey of India (FSI) data, 391 active fire incidents...

Tell us about your childhood first. I was born at Cuttack Tulasipur and did my schooling in Tulasipur High School before I joined Christ College and pursued higher secondary education in Arts. My father Rabindra Kumar Mohanty was an interpreter and publisher at a missionary...

Bhubaneswar: A Lookout Circular was issued against a person who was accused of duping around 800 people of crores of rupees through a betting app operated from Dubai. The Bureau of Immigration (BoI) issued the Lookout Circular, used by authorities to restrict the movement of...

Cuttack: Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha has completed all the preparatory measures to carry out Class X Summative Assessment-II starting tomorrow, BSE President Ramashish Hazra said Thursday. The question papers will reach the concerned examination centres on the same day of the examination. Hence,...

Puri: Nearly 40 shops were ablaze after a major fire broke out at Laxmi Market Complex located on Grand Road in Odisha's Puri district, a police officer said Thursday. The blaze was first spotted at a garment store on the first floor of the market...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has expressed deep condolences at the demise of eminent Odia scientist and Padmashree awardee Professor Prafulla Kumar Jena. In his message, the Chief Minister said that Jena was a genius scientist who encouraged, and inspired scientific research, especially in...

Bhubaneswar: The death toll in the explosion in an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Khurda district mounted to five after one of the four injured persons succumbed to burn injuries, police said Tuesday. Dolagobinda Behera (60), who had suffered more than 60 per cent burn...