Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon launch state’s first-of-its-kind shelter home for transgender beggars in the Capital city, in a bid to rehabilitate and further empower the third gender. Issuing a tender, the BMC stated that it is looking for parties that will look...

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police Saturday claimed to have arrested three persons for their involvement in a loan fraud case. Accused Satya Shankar Satpathy alias Bapi of CDA Sector-9, Rajkishore Swain alias Raju of CDA Sector-10 and Khetramohan Tripathy of Niali Ratanpur were produced in a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s youngest scuba diver, Dubai-based 11-year-old girl Tisya Panigrahi, along with her father Priyadarshee Panigrahi dived into the Arabian Sea in the Gulf Of Oman on the east coast of UAE at Fujairah to send out their ‘Nuakhai’ wishes on the eve of Nuakhai....

Bhubaneswar: A total of 13,043 students have applied for Plus II offline examination, Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) informed Saturday. According to a CHSE official, the council had announced September 2 that Class XII students who were dissatisfied with the marks allotted to them...

Bhubaneswar: A low pressure system has formed over the east-central and adjoining northeast Bay of Bengal under active influence of the cyclonic circulation over east-central Bay of Bengal and its neighborhood, the regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Bhubaneswar informed Saturday. The system...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Governor Ganeshi Lal and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday took to their respective Twitter handles to greet people on the auspicious occasion of Nuakhai festival. They prayed for everyone’s good health and well-being. “Nuakhai Juhar! Greetings to everyone on this...

Puri: The Puri Police have registered three cases and arrested 12 persons on the charge of running a fake RT-PCR certificate racket that provided forged documents to people for getting entry into the 12th century Shree Jagannath temple here. While two such cases have been...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha has recorded 630 new Covid-19 cases, of which 116 are in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking total tally in the state to 10,15,713. Active caseload in the state now stands at 7,020. Odisha also...

Bhubaneswar: Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Kumar Jena Friday said that the government has decided to continue with the restrictions being imposed during festivals including the ones regarding congregation of people near pandals and idol height. This comes at a time when a series of...

Bhubaneswar: The latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the state finances for FY 2019-20 took a dig at several departments which floundered in furnishing details of the usage of funds allocated to them. The audit report claimed that several...