Metro

Bhubaneswar: Amid farmers' protest over alleged scarcity of urea in some parts of Odisha, the state government Sunday closed 30 fertiliser shops and suspended licences of 62 dealers during enforcement drives, an official statement said. To check the black marketing and stolen or fake fertilisers,...

Puri: Servitors and devotees Sunday welcomed the decision to install the wheels of the three chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra of the Puri Rath Yatra in the Parliament complex in Delhi. Speaking to IANS, one of the servitors at the 12th-century...

Bhubaneshwar: Odisha's canoeing player Rashmita Sahoo received a special mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, after which she expressed her joy and said she is determined to win a medal for India in the upcoming Asian Games. Rashmita, who...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday announced the formation of 16 new notified area councils as well as upgradation of seven existing NACs into municipalities. CM Majhi made this announcement while addressing a programme on the occasion of Local Self Governance Day. During...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police have arrested a 27-year-old man from Gujarat's Rajkot district for his alleged involvement in duping an engineer from the eastern state of Rs 7 lakh. The accused, identified as Vishal Ramesh Bhai Makhvana, was apprehended from his native village in Gujarat and...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Saturday demanded an apology from Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi for his remarks on Rahul Gandhi and the Congress over the Voter Adhikar Yatra incident in Bihar, which the party alleged was staged by the BJP. Addressing a...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) Saturday wrote to the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) seeking an immediate response regarding the Temporary Transit Station (TTS) at the Sainik School campus. In its letter, the OSPCB stated, “A public complaint has been received from residents...

Bhubaneswar: The CAG Research Foundation Saturday hosted a state-level debate and discussion on the theme “Odisha: Rich in Resources, Poor in Outcomes, Who is Responsible? What Needs to Be Done?” at Gita Govinda Sadan here. Several eminent personalities attended the event and shared their views,...

Bhubaneswar: The Society for Nature, Education, and Health (SNEH) organised a seminar on ‘Role of Restorative Justice in Domestic Conflict Resolution’ here Saturday. The seminar was inaugurated by Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) member Urmilla Mahapatra, chief probation officer Amiya Kumar Nath Sharma, and...

Bhubaneswar: Nobel laureate Michael Kremer and a 12-member team from the University of Chicago visited Krushi Bhavan here Saturday, to discuss about ongoing research project on the weather forecast dissemination system and its rationality, validity, and acceptability among the farming community in the state. Agriculture...