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Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) announced Thursday the dates of physical matriculation examinations for dissatisfied students. The offline examinations will be held July 30 to August 5. Filling up of forms will start July 5 and will end July 14. The exams will...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 3,222 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally of infected patients in the state to 9,16,109. The active caseload in the state now stands at 30,950. Out of the 3,222 new infections, 1,838 were reported from quarantine...

Bhubaneswar: Systematic developmental planning requires the involvement of the community and elected representatives who have better knowledge of the local needs and resources, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said here Thursday. He said such an approach will not only help address any distortion in the local...

Bhubaneswar: The state recorded Odisha goods and services tax (OGST) collection of Rs 858.83 crore during June this year, posting a 13.13 per cent growth against the corresponding period of the previous year. According to Commissionerate of CT & GST, Cuttack, the state collected Rs...

Bhubaneswar: Orissa High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar Thursday inaugurated 15 Fast track Special courts dealing with cases under POSCO Act and rape cases. The courts will come up in Cuttack, Balasore, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jaipur, Kalahandi, Kendrapara, Khurda, Koraput, Kandhamal, Rayagada and...

Bhubaneswar: With the coronavirus pandemic still raging in the northern and coastal districts of Odisha, the Patnaik government Thursday decided to continue with limited lockdowns in 10 districts, even as an audit showed that as many as 1,264 people died in the state due to...

Bhubaneswar: A constable of Commissionerate Police was put under suspension Thursday for allegedly kicking a minor boy who was selling tea and milk at his father’s shop in Kesura area of Bhubaneswar. The policeman roughed up the minor on the charge of flouting Covid-19 safety...

Bhubaneswar: Following the Central government announcement allowing Covid-19 vaccination of expectant mothers a week ago, Odisha government Thursday said that it has plans to start a massive vaccination drive in the state soon. According to director of health services Bijay Kumar Mohapatra, the drive for...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday halted vaccination drive in 16 districts due to shortage of Covishield doses, amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in the state, an official said. The inoculation exercise was temporarily stopped during the day in Angul, Bolangir, Balasore, Bargarh, Bhadrak, Deogarh,...

Bhubaneswar: Dr Milan Kumar Ghadei, consultant cardiologist & cardiac electro physiologist at Sum Ultimate Medicare Hospital, Bhubaneswar, stated that the pacemaker, a small device that's placed under the skin in your chest to help control heartbeat, is very useful if the patient’s heart's natural pacemaker...