Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approved 11 investment proposals worth Rs 2,253 crore that can provide direct employment opportunities for 3,817 people. The proposals were given a nod during a virtual meeting of the State-Level Single Window Clearance Authority recently, according to an official release...

Bhubaneswar: The Met office Thursday warned of heavy to very heavy rain in Odisha over the next several days due to the possible formation of a low-pressure area. Rainfall activity is expected to increase from Friday due to the gradual strengthening of the monsoons and...

Bhubaneswar: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) rescued 169 minors, including 29 girls, from the East Coast Railway jurisdiction in July, as a part of its drive against human trafficking, an official release said. The children were reported missing or had fled from their homes, it...

Bhubaneswar: The plight of a large number of farmers in Odisha is miserable due to a delayed monsoon and poor rainfall in June and in July, which leads to a 20 per cent decline in paddy cultivation across the state, according to official data. Transplanting...

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: Ten more Indian sites have entered the Ramsar list, taking the number of wetlands of international importance in the country to 64, the Union Environment Ministry said Wednesday. The Ramsar list aims at "developing and maintaining an international network of wetlands, which...

Bhubaneswar: In a bureaucratic reshuffle, the Odisha government Wednesday appointed Arabinda Kumar Padhee as the new principal secretary of the Agriculture and Farmers' Empowerment Department, as per a notification. Padhee, a 1996 batch IAS officer, was given the responsibility of the agriculture department on his...

Bhubaneswar: An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Odisha Police was arrested Wednesday on corruption charges, state Vigilance officials said. ASI Pushpalata Paikaray, posted at Balipatna police station in Khurda district, was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a complainant of a case...

Bhubaneswar: With a series of recent suicide cases allegedly owning to ragging and the state occupying 4th place across the country in this menace, Odisha government has asked authorities of universities and degree colleges to initiate immediate measures as soon as the allegations come to...

Bhubaneswar: A delegation of Odisha Assembly headed by Speaker Bikram Keshari Arukha called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi Wednesday. As many as 24 MLAs including the Speaker, parliamentary affairs and finance minister Niranjan Pujari, revenue minister Pramila Mallick, government chief...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday announced that his government will set up two more state-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in tribal-dominated sub-divisions of Kuchinda in Sambalpur and Patnagarh in Bolangir district. With the two new ITIs, 50 of the state's 58 sub-divisions will...