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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha police has detained an editor of a local news portal for allegedly defaming athlete Dutee Chand by publishing "defamatory and obscene contents". The Mahila police station in Bhubaneswar Friday detained the editor, Sudhansu Rout following a complaint filed by Dutee, deputy commissioner...

Bhubaneswar:  Members of all parties actively participated in the Question Hour in Odisha Assembly here Saturday. It was the fourth day of the Monsoon Session. The first three days of the Monsoon Session saw vociferous protests over the Mahanga double murder case and the drought-like...

Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced Saturday that the long-awaited Pipili Assembly constituency polls will be conducted September 30. The counting of votes will take place October 3 and the result will be announced the same day. The Pipili by-polls were initially scheduled...

Khurda: A team of special task force (STF) from the state Crime Branch seized brown sugar weighing 1.34 kilograms in a massive crackdown conducted Friday morning. One person has been arrested after the seizure and has been identified as Manoranjan Das. Incidentally Das is well-educated...

Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 infections among children below 18 years continue to remain high in Odisha with 118 testing positive for the disease in the last 24 hours. In the same time period, a total of 681 new cases of Covid-19 were reported from the state. The...

Bhubaneswar: To provide better comfort and jerk-free journey to passengers, the Indian Railways has decided to run Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express with modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches from this month. This will replace conventional coaches running at present. 08445/08446 Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur-Bhubaneswar Special Hirakhand Express will run from September...

Arushi Mudgal of Odissi dance and Ramachandra Behera of Odissi music (Mardala) will be conferred with Guru Kelu Charan Mohapatra Yuva Pratibha Samman at the five day event to be kicked off from September 5   Bhubaneswar: Odissi dance school, Srjan will host the Guru...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has recorded 41.32 per cent growth in GST collection in August 2021 compared to the corresponding period of 2020, GST officials said Friday. Odisha's GST collections stood at Rs 3,316.55 crore in August 2021 as compared to Rs 2,348.28 crore collected in August...

Bhubaneswar: The Hirakhand Express will run with modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches from this month to provide better comfort and jerk-free journey to the passengers, the East Coast Railway said. The LHB coaches in the train, which runs from Bhubaneswar to Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, will replace...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Friday witnessed uproarious scenes over the alleged irregularities in Staff Selection Commission (SSC)-conducted examinations. Opposition Congress members resorted to sloganeering as soon as proceedings began forcing Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro to adjourn the House till 4pm. According to a source, Congress MLAs...