Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government Saturday declared October 25 as a public holiday due to solar eclipse. The Chief Minister's Office today released a notification in this regard. According to the official release, all educational institutions including schools, colleges, and universities as well as government buildings, revenue...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Covid-19 tally rose to 13,35,808 on Saturday as 57 more people, including eight children, tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said. The death toll remained unchanged at 9,202 as no fresh fatality was recorded. Fifty-three other patients have died due to...

Bhubaneswar: A low-pressure area over the north Andaman sea that Saturday intensified into a depression, around 1,460 km south-southeast of Sagar Island in West Bengal, is expected to take the shape of a cyclonic storm by October 24, the IMD said in its bulletin. The...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated Friday nine projects worth Rs 14.69 crore for West Odisha Development Council (WODC) through the video conferencing mode. Naveen Patnaik also laid the foundation for nine more projects, whose cost is Rs 33.68 crore. The projects include construction of...

Bhubaneswar: The southwest monsoon has completely retreated from Odisha, the IMD said Friday. The conditions are very likely to become favourable for further withdrawal of southwest monsoon from the entire country over the next 48 hours, it said. Though the monsoon has withdrawn from the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is bracing for heavy rainfall early next week under the impact of a possible cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, which is likely to skirt the state and move towards West Bengal and Bangladesh, the IMD said Friday. The West Bengal government has...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 13,35,751 Friday as 57 more people, including five children, tested positive for the infection,  the health department said in a bulletin. The death toll remained unchanged at 9,202 with no new fatalities reported since Monday. Fifty-three other coronavirus patients...

Bhubaneswar: The IMD has said that the possible cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is likely to reach West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts by October 25, skirting Odisha. The IMD in a statement said that the low-pressure area formed in the Bay of Bengal Thursday is likely...

Bhubaneswar: The State Transport Authority (STA) in Odisha Thursday signed an MoU with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for development, management and operation of vehicle location tracking (VLT) application. Under the Nirbhaya scheme for women's safety, the Central government has made vehicle location tracking system...

Bhubaneswar: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Thursday granted Jeypore Airport the license to carry out commercial flight operations under the regional connectivity scheme. Describing it as a "milestone", the Ministry of Civil Aviation said the airport, 33 km northwest of Koraput town and...