Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has directed officials to make preparations on a war-footing to deal with a possible third wave of COVID-19 with at least eight omicron cases detected in the state. In a meeting held Monday, where he took stock of the...

Cuttack: The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) declared Tuesday an area of Gopabandhu Vihar locality in this city as a micro containment zone. Sources said that the decision to declare the area as a micro containment zone was taken after six members of a family tested...

Bhubaneswar: Coming in the wake of the gruesome mowing down of two elephants by a goods train in Khurda Saturday night, an RTI response has revealed that, at least 1,356 elephants have died in the coastal state between 2001 and 2021. With 93 jumbo deaths,...

New Delhi: With an incremental growth of 0.13 points, Odisha has ranked among the least improved states in the NITI Aayog’s fourth edition of the State Health Index for 2019-20, released Monday. The state also saw the steepest decline of two positions. Odisha slipped to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday announced a relief package of Rs 507 crore for farmers affected by the heavy rainfall caused due to cyclone Jawad that hit Odisha coast in the first week of this month. According to the package, the small and...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Monday said there is no need to impose restrictions such as night curfew and lockdown across the state as of now amid concerns over the detection of eight cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the coastal state. Night curfew...

Puri: A day after a person was killed in Cuttack after his neck got entangled by a manja thread, another person fell victim to the kite thread in Puri town Monday. Luckily however, Bhanjabihari Patra of Kundhaibenta Sahi in Puri town escaped with injuries and...

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police Monday detained a trader from Jagatpur locality for selling Manja-laced (a typical power coating) kite following the death of a youth after a kite string wound around his neck and sliced through him at Pirabazaar in Cuttack. The trader is presently...

Bhubaneswar: The Appointments Committee of Union Cabinet has approved the repatriation of Intelligence Bureau Special Director and IPS of 1987-batch Sunil Kumar Bansal to his parent cadre Odisha. Bansal will take over the charge as new Director General of Police (DGP)-Odisha from coming January 1...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha has recorded 123 new Covid-19 cases, of which 17 are in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking tally in the state to 10,54,004. Active caseload in the state now stands at 1,572. Odisha also reported...