Metro

Bhubaneswar: A young girl, who was attempting suicide Wednesday afternoon by trying to jump off the bridge into Kuakhai River near Hanspal on Bhubaneswar outskirts, was saved by alert passersby and a team of policemen. According to an official of Mancheswar police station, some local...

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police Tuesday arrested a woman who was engaged as domestic help by a man in New Delhi, from Salia Sahi slum in Bhubaneswar for allegedly stealing gold and diamond jewellery worth crores of rupees from the latter’s house. Later in the evening, the...

Bhubaneswar: An audit on Covid-19 deaths which is still underway in Odisha will be completed within the next 10 to 15 days, Directorate of Medical Education & Training (DMET) director CBK Mohanty informed Wednesday. “The state government has been sharing details of confirmed death cases...

Bhubaneswar: The Centre has implemented the Good and Services Tax (GST) since July 1, 2017 with a promise to states that it would provide compensations for their shortfall in revenues. However, the state government is yet to receive the promised compensation of Rs 2,738 crore....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 1,703 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 9,72,517. The active caseload in the state now stands at 17,411. Out of the 1,703 new infections, 988 were reported from quarantine centres while 715...

Cuttack: An NGO Tuesday moved Orissa High Court seeking a CBI or SIT probe into the death case of Paralakhemundi assistant conservator of forests (ACF) Saumya Ranjan Mohapatra. Bharat Vikas Parishad’s president Surendra Panigrahi has filed the PIL, making Home Secretary of Union government, Odisha...

Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued conditional summons directing the Superintendents of Police of Bhadrak and Keonjhar districts to personally appear before it in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a minor girl at Anandpur in Keonjhar in 2020. The Commission...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 1,629 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally in the state to 9,70,814. While the number of positive cases reported July 26 was 1,637, it was 1,833 July 25.  The active caseload in the state now stands at...

Bhubaneswar: Even though the Health department has allocated RS 1.42 crore for the development of ‘e-Niramaya’, a software application for better management of the state’s Niramaya scheme which ensures free as well as affordable essential medicines in hospitals, the reluctance of the officials to use...

New Delhi: As many as 1,450 government schools in Odisha have internet connection through broadband services, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Lok Sabha. Responding to a written question regarding internet connectivity in government-run schools across the country, the Union Minister informed the Lower...