Metro

Bhubaneswar: Farmers have suffered huge to damage to crops due to unseasonal rains and cyclones hitting Odisha. So the vegetable prices in the Odisha capital Bhubaneswar have nearly doubled since last week burning a hole in the common man’s pocket ahead of festive season. As...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha MLA Prasanta Jagadev (BJD) was sent to judicial custody in connection with an assault case registered against him for 'assaulting' a BJP leader last month, an official said Friday. Though Jagadev had moved to the Orissa High Court for an anticipatory bail, the...

Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch of Odisha Police gave a clean chit Friday to the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Gajapati, Sangram Keshari Behera, in the sensational death of Assistant Chief Conservator (ACF) of Paralakhemundi Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra. Addressing a presser, ADG, crime branch, Sanjeeb Panda...

Bhubaneswar: Ashwini Kumar Panda has topped the Odisha Civil Services Examination-2019, the results of which were announced Friday by the Odisha Public Service Commission. The results can be viewed on the website – www.opsc.gov.in. As per the results a total of 153 candidates have qualified...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today stressed linking farmers directly to the market and removing intermediaries with the objective to improve the income of the farmers. Inaugurating the Odisha Agri conclave 2021 on virtual platform, the Chief Minister said the state government's emphasis is...

Puri: The body of a student, who went missing while taking bath in the sea at Puri yesterday, was recovered from the beach near Chakratirtha road this morning. As per the reports three students of Aeronautical Institute, Kolkata were washed away in the tidal current...

Cuttack: Justice Jaswant Singh and Justice Arindam Sinha were Friday sworn in as new judges of Orissa High Court. Orissa High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar administered the oath of office to the new judges in the presence of puisne judges of the High Court...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Friday upwardly revised the General Insurance Scheme amount paid by its employees towards Group Insurance Scheme (GIS) with an objective to provide more financial benefits to its employees in case of death while in service. As per the revised plan, the employees...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government announced Friday a hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) for its employees and pensioners by 11 per cent. The hike will have retrospective effect starting July 2021. With this, the DA has been increased from the existing 17 per cent to 28...

Khurda: The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch seized a live pangolin Friday morning following a raid carried out at a service road besides NH-16 between Gurujanga and Pitapalli in Khurda district. The STF has arrested two wild animal traders in this connection. The...