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Bhubaneswar: The economic offence wing (EOW) of Odisha Police has arrested Neeraj Kumar, a chartered accountant from New Delhi for his alleged involvement in a PNB bank loan fraud case, police said  Monday. According to EOW officials, Paresh Kumar Das, circle head, Punjab National Bank,...

Bhubaneswar: Twelve new steel companies will soon be setting up establishments in Odisha, State Steel & Mines Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallik informed Monday in the Assembly. It means that fresh investments will come to the state. However, there was no mention of the time frame...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Covid-19 tally rose to 13,07,249 Monday as 739 more people, including 95 children, tested positive for the infection, while one fresh fatality pushed the toll to 9,133, a health bulletin said. The state had logged 1,011 cases and one death Sunday. Khurda, of...

Bhubaneswar: West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with an alleged school jobs scam, was Monday taken to Odisha in an air ambulance by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and admitted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar as per direction of the Calcutta High Court, an official said....

Bhubaneswar/Pune: President-designate of India Droupadi S. Murmu is not new to records and several are already to her credit in a dizzying political career spanning barely a quarter century, zooming from a Municipal Councillor in 1997 to the country's First Citizen in 2022, for which...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 13,06,510 Sunday as 1,011 more people, including 130 children, tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said. The toll rose to 9,132 as a 53-year-old man succumbed to the disease in Bhadrak district. Fifty-three other patients have died...

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking but embarrassing incident, Odia actor Babusan Mohanty, his wife, and co-actor Prakruti Mishra got into an ugly fight on a busy Bhubaneshwar street on Saturday morning and the video has now gone viral. The matter has also reached Kharavela Nagar police station...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said that the state health budget doubled in the past three years as his government was committed to provide universal access to quality medical services. The budget provision during the 2019-20 financial year was more than Rs 6,800...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Covid-19 tally rose to 13,05,499 Saturday as 1,130 more people, including 143 children, tested positive for the infection, while one fresh fatality pushed the toll to 9,131, a health bulletin said. The state had reported 1,178 cases on the previous day. Sundargarh reported...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government and an organisation of World Bank have joined hands for implementation of asset monetisation and recycling programme, an official release said Friday. It is part of a wider World Bank technical assistance to support Odisha in monetising existing public sector assets...