Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded its highest rainfall deficiency this monsoon in over two decades, the MeT Centre has said, amid fears that the dry spell could trigger a drought in the state. Odisha received only 661.1 mm of rain between June 1 and August 31 this...

Bhubaneswar: Cybercriminals duped people to the tune of Rs 1,28,25,184  in Odisha during August 2021, the cyber help desk of Bhubaneswar Urban Police District (UPD) informed Thursday. According to official sources, cybercriminals duped people of Rs 64,24,705 in this period from Bhubaneswar alone. Meanwhile, the...

Bhubaneswar: A Royal Bengal tiger named Suraj escaped from fences inside the tiger safari of Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar Thursday morning. Hundreds of visitors started running here and there in panic after news about the mishap spread across the zoo. According to a zoo...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has loaded 94.26 MT of freight during the period from April to August, 2021 against 72.32 MT carried in the corresponding period of last fiscal. With this, the ECoR has loaded 21.9 MT incremental cargo during the first five...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha has recorded 754 new Covid-19 cases, of which 108 are in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking total tally in the state to 10,09,223. Active caseload in the state now stands at 7,241. Odisha also...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday directed Odisha and other states to lay down a timeline for inoculating inmates lodged in mental healthcare institutions for Covid-19. A three-judge bench of the apex court comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and Hima Kohli asked the state...

Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday served a show cause on the state government in connection with the rape of a 19-year-old differently-abled girl by a police official under Thakurmunda police limits in Mayurbhanj in June 2020. Hearing a plea filed by rights...

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police Wednesday claimed to have arrested one of the accused, an associate of Dhalasamanta brothers, in the murder of pulses trader Mohammed Farooq Tayab in Malgodown area of the city November 12, 2014. Accused Deepak Nayak, alias Shankar, 33, of Gopal Sahi...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 3,451 consumer cases filed in 2019-20 and 2020-21 (up to February) are pending in various district forums of the state, Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain told the Assembly, Wednesday. He mentioned the figures while giving a...

Bhubaneswar: With 53 more persons dying of Covid-19, the total deaths due to the coronavirus has crossed 8,000 mark in Odisha, the health department said Wednesday. Now, the Covid death toll in the state stands at 8,022. As per the data shared by the state...