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Bhubaneswar: A woman died by suicide by jumping before a moving train at Kargil slum under Airfield police limits in Bhubaneswar Thursday. The woman was torn into pieces in front of her husband. The deceased has been identified as Smruti Rekha, wife of Subashis Rath...

Bhubaneswar: Preparations are in final stages for conducting the special offline Matric examination from July 30 in Odisha, a senior Board of Secondary Education (BSE) official said Thursday. According to BSE Chairman Ramashish Hazra, special squads have been formed to enforce Covid-19 guidelines at the...

Sakhigopal: Famous Sakhigopal temple and Satyabadi Bakula Bana in Puri district will get a facelift under the heritage site development and beautification initiative of the state government, district collector Samarth Verma said Wednesday. According to Verma, the development and beautification plan chalked out for Sakhigopal...

Bhubaneswar: Police recovered the hanging body of a youth from a tree at Master Canteen bus stand in Bhubaneswar Thursday morning. The identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained. According to a source, local residents first spotted the body and informed the police....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday effected a major reshuffle in the bureaucracy by transferring five senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, official sources said. Principal Secretary of Finance department AK Meena has been transferred and posted as the Principal Secretary of Panchayati Raj and Drinking...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Health department said Wednesday it is awaiting the nod from the Centre for vaccination of kids aged 12 years and below against Covid19. The chief of Directorate of Medical Education and Training (DMET), CBK Mohanty informed that no gudielines or approvals have...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has initiated the process to accord ‘revenue village’ tag to approximately 4,000 hamlets. So far, the government has received more than 3,500 proposals that are pending at district level for years for the creation of new ‘revenue villages’. Discussions on this...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 1,615 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 9,74,132. The active caseload in the state now stands at 17,262. Out of the 1,615 new infections, 937 were reported from quarantine centres while 678...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has set a target to channelise government business worth Rs 5,000 crore through women self-help groups (WSHGs) in five years. The business through WSHGs has reached Rs 3,583.84 crore in the first two years (2019-20 and 2020-21). Mission Shakti department...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Smart City, which was adjudged the second best city in the country for promotion of cycling-friendly initiative by the Centre Wednesday, will receive `1crore central assistance. Inaugurated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), the first season of India Cycles4Change...