Metro

Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Jagatsinghpur Collector to take action against a group of people including a state cadre officer for dancing in a marriage procession in blatant violation of Covid protocol. Acting on a petition filed by rights activist...

Bhubaneswar: The state government Monday formed a project advisory committee (PAC) to guide and coordinate various matters related to implementation of Ekamra project for beautification of the area around the Lingaraj Temple here. Santrupt Misra has been appointed as the chairman of the 19-member committee...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court Monday turned down a batch of petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to abolish the Odisha Administrative Tribunal (OAT). While quashing the pleas, a division bench of Chief Justice S Muralidhar and Justice BP Routray observed that the Centre as well...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Monday said that more slots will be opened for 18-44 age group as fresh consignments would reach the Capital city this week. Sources at the BMC said that the state capital, which had been facing acute crunch of Covaxin doses...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 5,896 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the state I & PR department said in a tweet Tuesday. The new cases took the total tally in the state to 8,25,110 while the active caseload stands at 74,172. Out of the...

Bhubaneswar: In a major respite for all state governments, the Centre announced Monday that it will provide free Covid-19 vaccines to all above 18 years from June 21. Keeping this development in mind, the Odisha government is likely to cancel the global tender floated for...

Bhubaneswar: The bureaucrats often go scot-free even after committing blatant irregularities while in office. Wielding their clout, the bureaucrats manage to suppress the probe in the alleged corruption cases and Odisha is no different on this count. The undue delay in completion of the probe...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha registered 6,118 new cases of coronavirus infections Monday, health services director Bijay Mohapatra said that the state will witness a further fall in the rate of fresh cases in the next seven to 10 days. “The present trend of cases in...

Bhubaneswar: Many places across Odisha are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall from June 10 under the influence of a low pressure area likely to form around June 11 over North Bay of Bengal. “There is possibility that heavy to very heavy rainfall...

Bhubaneswar: Following public outrage over dearth of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines in state-run hospitals, the state government has decided to install the critical infrastructure at various government hospitals in a phased manner. In the first phase, six such machines would be installed at SCB...