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Bhubaneswar: Britannia Industries Limited announced Friday an investment of Rs 94 crore for the expansion of its manufacturing plant in Khurda district. This investment will be done to cater to the growing demand for its products across multiple categories in Odisha. Britannia Industries will invest...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has administered 1.5 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine so far, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said. "Crossing a significant milestone in COVID-19 vaccination, Odisha has administered 1.5 cr vaccine doses, including vaccination of frontline warriors," Patnaik tweeted on Thursday. "Commend the hard work $@$#...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 1,917 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 9,63,851. The active caseload in the state now stands at 19,261. Out of the new cases, 1,109 were reported from quarantine centres while 808 persons...

Odisha, along with the entire country, is bracing for an impending third wave of Covid-19. Khurda district, which encompasses the state capital Bhubaneswar, has been bearing the brunt of the pandemic for a long time. Director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Dr Gitanjali Batmanabane, while speaking to...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: Odia Language Literature, Tourism & Culture Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi Thursday visited Durgadevi temple under Remuna tehsil in Balasore district where the archaeologists had also discovered a fortified historical site. The minister declared Rs 20 lakh package for the development of the site. Panigrahi...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday inaugurated a tea packaging unit of Tata Consumer Products Limited (TCPL) at Gopalpur Industrial Park in Ganjam through videoconferencing. The plant with an investment of `100 crore was completed in 18 months and it will provide employment opportunities to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal Thursday appointed noted educationist Santosh Kumar Tripathy as the new Vice-Chancellor of Fakir Mohan University in Balasore. Tripathy has been appointed for a period of four years, which will take effect from the date he assumes office or until further...

Bhubaneswar: Out of the 3,000 genome sequenced Covid-19 positive samples in Odisha, 93 per cent persons were found infected with the Delta variant, chief of Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Bhubaneswar Ajay Kumar Parida said Thursday. According to Parida, ILS has so far conducted genome...

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police Thursday exhumed a partially-buried body of an unidentified youth at Bali Yatra ground under Mancheswar police limits in Bhubaneswar. According to a police official, the body was recovered from sand in presence of a local magistrate. Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash, a scientific...

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Bishweswar Tudu was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi for treatment of post-Covid complications Wednesday, a source informed. Tudu was experiencing severe pain in bones around eyes and teeth, a doctor...