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Bhubaneswar:  Amidst the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic, cases of dengue have also started to emerge in Bhubaneswar, officials said. Twelve cases of the vector-borne disease have been reported from Sailashree Vihar and Kalpana areas here in the last 10 days, said director of Public Health Niranjan...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC) has started operating buses on 43 routes in category A districts in the state from Tuesday. Public transport by inter-district and intra-district buses have been made operational only with seating capacity in category A districts. The government...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha unit of the Congress will launch a statewide agitation from July 7 to 17 in protest against the hike in prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas. Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee Niranjan Patnaik said this July 7, the party activists would launch a...

Bhubaneswar: About 3.24 crore people affected due to prevailing Covid-19 pandemic will get free foodgrains under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojanaa-IV (PMGKAY-IV), an official said here Monday. They will get free food grains for a period of five months, from July to November,...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed pleas seeking permission to conduct Rath Yatra at various places other than Puri in Odisha. A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana said that it would not interfere with the directions passed by the state government under...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has recommended the name of para-badminton player Pramod Bhagat for the country's highest sporting honour, 'Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award', for the year 2021. The state also recommended the name of vice-captain of Indian women's hockey team, Deep Grace Ekka for...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 2,487 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 9,27,186. The active caseload in the state now stands at 28730. Out of the 2487 new infections, 1,428 were reported from quarantine centres while 1059...

Bhubaneswar:  Speaking on the occasion of the 72nd Van Mahotsav programme at the Badagada High School here Monday in the City, Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha said that the government aims to undertake afforestation programme on around 1.50 lakh hectares in 2021-22 by...

Bhubaneswar: The capital city Monday woke up to the brutal murder of a 26-year-old married woman in Bhimtangi area under Airfield police limits here. The three-year-old son of the deceased escaped the killer’s knife. The deceased, Priyanka Priyadarshini Sahu, along with her husband, Rakesh and...

Puri: To convince people to stay indoors and follow quarantine norms for containing the transmissibility of Covid-19, the state government has tried to invoke the Odia religious tradition by highlighting how Lord Jagannath quarantines himself in “Anasar Ghar” (isolation room) before the annual Rath Yatra....