Metro

Puri: Police Thursday foiled a drug peddlers' attempt to deceive authorities after they seized a car with a ‘Govt of India' sticker and seized brown sugar from it. Three persons– Deba Prasad Mishra, Sheikh Karimullah and Sheikh Anu -- from Bhubaneswar have been arrested in...

Puri: With just a week to go for the September 30 by-poll for the Pipili Assembly seat, the Puri district administration Thursday launched the process of postal ballot voting. Puri Collector Samarth Verma said postal ballot voting for people above 80 years, physically challenged and...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has amended rules for the smooth conduct of the elections for gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zilla parishads, an official said. As per the amended rules, the counting of votes will be done on a date to be fixed by the...

Cuttack: One more critical Covid-19 patient under Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) support at SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) in Cuttack died late Wednesday night. After this fatality, death tally of patients under ECMO reached four. According to an official in SCBMCH, the patient was identified...

Bhubaneswar: The System of Air Quality & Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) jointly developed by Utkal University, IITM-Pune and India Meteorological Department (IMD) gained international commendation, an official source informed Thursday. Research findings of SAFAR project has been included in a research paper titled as...

Bhubaneswar: State Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department has authorised pharmacists, working at the government-run hospitals with single doctor, to dispense medicines in the latter’s absence. The H&FW department’s Joint Secretary accorded this sole power in this regard vide a circular (No-PT3-HFW-MSII-MSNG1M-0028-2016-26512/H, Dated the 21.09.2021),...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha has recorded 644 new Covid-19 cases, of which 72 are in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking total tally in the state to 10,22,594. Active caseload in the state now stands at 5,713. Odisha also...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said Wednesday that it has identified 75 vulnerable waterlogging spots in the state capital. This disclosure came two days after an open storm water drain claimed Monday the life of 15-year-old student Jyoti Prakash Behera. Speaking on the issue,...

New Delhi: The Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act, 2021, which was passed in the Karnataka Assembly to prohibit online skill games like fantasy sports, rummy and poker in the state, has cast a shadow on online fantasy sports. Fantasy cricket is expected to be the most...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Wednesday reported the death of another four Covid-19 patients taking up the state toll to 8,150. The state also registered 734 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, of which, 101 are below 18 years of age. While 424 are detected from...