Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government directed the energy firms Tuesday to maximise production to prevent load-shedding in summer as less rainfall led to a low hydro-storage situation in some reservoirs. At a virtual meeting, Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra reviewed the current power availability and peak-hour...

Bhubaneswar: With incidents of cyber fraud on the rise across Odisha, the state government Tuesday decided to establish 11 new cybercrime and economic offence police stations. The announcement in this regard was made by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while sanctioning 154 more posts for police...

Bhubaneswar: Hundreds of activists of the Chhatra Congress Tuesday gheraoed the Police  Deputy Commissioner's office here and the offices of District Superintendent Police across the state demanding action against the erring Police personnel and a judicial inquiry into Police attack on students Congress activists at...

Bhubaneswar: Those vaccinated against Covid-19 will show defence against Omicron, the new mutated variant of the virus, Director of Health and Family Welfare, Bijay Panigrahi said Tuesday. “Though vaccines may not be able to give 100 per cent protection against Omicron, it will reduce the...

Bhubaneswar: Over 2.6 crore people are eligible to cast votes in the three-tier Odisha panchayat polls likely to be held in February next year, and the Election Commission has procured additional ballot boxes from other states for the exercise, a senior official said. He said...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 175 new Covid positive cases three less than Monday during the past 24 hours taking the total number of Covid positive cases in the state to 10,51,927. Monday the state reported 178 new cases, 160 cases Sunday and 173 fresh Covid cases...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Tuesday submitted a memorandum to Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh demanding sanction of PMAY (Gramin) houses for the Fani affected people and other eligible persons of Odisha. In the memorandum, the MPs said there are 1.84 lakh families...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Higher Education department Monday released a new set of guidelines and dateline for admissions to vacant Post Graduate (PG) seats (Spot-II) selection for 2021-22 academic session. Candidates, who have been selected earlier but did not take admission during the previous spot admission,...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court postponed Monday the state film award ceremony scheduled to be held December 14. It directed re-evaluation of all entries selected for the programme. The Orissa High Court order came on a writ petition by director Bobby Islam. He contended that...

Bhubaneswar: Indian Railways Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), Bhubaneswar will launch special tour packages on Pilgrim Special Tourist Trains. Among the trains are ‘Vibrant Gujarat’, which will travel to western India and services will start in January, 2022. Similarly the ‘Bharat Darshan’ tourist train to...