Metro

Bhubaneswar: Deputy Chief Minister and Tourism Minister Pravati Parida stated Monday that Odisha tourists don’t require special permission from their home countries to visit the state. Answering media queries over the Level-2 travel advisory issued by the US State Department, Parida said Monday: “I was...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD Monday called for an 'All Odisha Students Strike' June 25 to protest the alleged gang rape of a college student at Gopalpur sea beach in Ganjam district. At a press conference in Bhubaneswar BJD leader Devi Ranjan Tripathy appealed to the students...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is seeking to ease environmental restrictions to promote tourism inside and around some of its most ecologically sensitive regions, including national parks, tiger reserves, coastal zones and Ramsar wetlands, according to government records. Legal and conservation experts say this move undermines...

Bhubaneswar: With the rapid advancement of mining and industrialisation, there is a significant increase in the volume of pollutants in the environment, posing serious challenges to ecosystems and human health. One of the major concerns happens to be the management of mining tailings, fine particles...

Bhubaneswar: The State Higher Education Department, Sunday released the Phase-I second selection merit list for Undergraduate (UG) courses for the 2025–26 academic session, in which a total of 45,502 students have been shortlisted. While the first round saw the selection of 1,75,722 students out of...

Bhubaneswar: Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Sunday stated that convergence of agriculture with tourism has a vast potential for generating a reliable source of secondary income. He said this while addressing a Consultative Workshop on Agro-Tourism at the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office...

Puri: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday asked officers to make this year's Rath Yatra in Puri ‘indecent-free'. Majhi gave this direction to the officers at a meeting to review preparedness made for the annual festival scheduled to be held in Puri June 27....

Bhubaneswar: Given the upcoming famous Rath Yatra festival in Odisha's Puri, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run 365 special trains to and from Puri, in addition to other regular trains, during the festival period. The ECoR, in a statement, said it has...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Leader of Opposition and BJD president Naveen Patnaik is stable and his spine surgery for cervical arthritis was "successful", the private hospital in Mumbai where he underwent the procedure said Sunday. In a statement issued by CEO and Executive Director, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police, with the help of immigration officials, have arrested an Afghanistan national on charges of staying in India illegally since 2018 by forging documents and doing business in Cuttack city. The man was identified as Mohammad Yousaf alias Yaha Khan, aged about 54...