Metro

Puri: Gold ornaments of Lord Jagannath and His elder sibling Lord Balabhadra will be repaired ahead of Suna Besha rituals. However, the gold ornaments of Goddess Subhadra require no repairing. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Sunday wrote a letter in this regard to a...

Puri: About 12 indoor patients of the male medicine ward of the district headquarter hospital here fell sick Saturday after being administered injection by the nurse, officials said Sunday. The ward doctor during his visit had prescribed the injection. At about 4 PM the duty...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government spent more than Rs 6.02 crore from the state exchequer to pay the lawyers contesting the contentious Mahanadi inter-state river water dispute in the Tribunal on behalf of the state and on government officials for their airfares to different places. A...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 3,408 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 9,00,470. The active caseload in the state now stands at 32,706. Out of the 3,408 new infections, 1,943 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,465...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 11 out of 30 districts in the state have received deficit rainfall till date ever since the onset of southwest monsoon, Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre said Saturday. The state has received 169.6 mm rain during the period from June 1 to 26...

New Delhi: The Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal Saturday directed the Central ministries and agencies to supply documents related to Mahanadi basin to Odisha and Chhattisgarh. A three-judge bench of the tribunal headed by Supreme Court judge Justice AM Khanwilkar and comprising Justices Ravi Ranjan and...

Bhubaneswar: Seeking modification in the vaccination policy, the state government has urged the Centre to allocate Covid-19 vaccines in 95:5 ratio between the state government and private hospitals instead of 75:25 earlier. State Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das in a letter to...

Bhubaneswar: Delta Plus variant of the coronavirus is not as contagious as it is believed to be, according to Director of Institute of Life Science (ILS) Bhubaneswar, Ajay Parida. Parida said around 48 Delta Plus mutants have been detected during retrospective genome sequencing in the...

Bhubaneswar/Deogarh: Following detection of the first case of Covid-19 Delta Plus variant in Odisha, the state government Saturday sent a team of epidemiologists to Deogarh district headquarters hospital (DHH) to thoroughly examine the patient. The patient was hospitalised at the DHH Friday. According to official...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Saturday appointed several party leaders as observers for different districts in Odisha. This was informed by party general secretary (media affairs) Manas Mangaraj. “In supersession of all previous orders, the following leaders of Biju Janata Dal are hereby appointed as...