Metro

Bhubaneswar: May 3 certainly rings a bell at least for residents of Puri and Bhubaneswar. On this day, ‘Cyclone Fani’ hit these two cities hard along with other places in Odisha creating widespread destruction. The ferocity of the cyclone and the pictures that emerged post...

Cuttack: Officials of the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) have already started the process for publishing the results of High School Certificate examinations. According to a source, district education officers (DEOs) have asked headmasters of all the schools for detailed information of Class X students....

Bhubaneswar:  In view of COVID-19 cases rising exponentially in the Cuttack Municipal area, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday sanctioned Rs 10 crore to Cuttack Municipal Corporation. The assistance has been released from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF). Prior to the 14-day long lockdown starting...

Bhubaneswar: Showing solidarity with states facing acute shortage of medical oxygen, the Odisha government has so far sent 241 tankers carrying 4,410.462 metric tonne (MT) of the life-saving gas to ten different states. The ten states include Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha formally launched the third phase of COVID-19 vaccination for people in the 18-44 age group here Monday, with beneficiaries being administered the first dose of Covaxin, a health department official said. The drive is underway at all government hospitals in the state capital....

Bhubaneswar: The voting through postal ballot for Pipili bypoll begun Monday. Senior citizens and differently-abled persons will cast their votes through this postal ballot. This voting process will complete May 7. According to a source, there are at least 1,067 such voters in the Pipili...

Bhubaneswar: Accepting an earlier recommendation of the Odisha government, President of India Ram Nath Kovind Monday issued an order for the compulsory retirement of tainted IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak. Notably, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been emphasising on high degree of morality and...

Puri: At a time when Puri district’s COVID-19 situation is turning grimmer by the day, shortage of doctors at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) here is affecting health care service. The IDH has been functioning as a COVID Care Hospital. Bimbadhar Dash, a resident of Puri...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday morning spoke to Mamata Banerjee over telephone and congratulated her for her party’s landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections. Notably, CM Patnaik May 2 congratulated Banerjee, Sarbananda Sonowal, Pinarayi Vijayan and MK Stalin for their victories...

Bhubaneswar: As the country reels under a massive second wave of Covid-19 infection, the Indian Navy, through its training establishment at INS Chilka and under the aegis of Naval Officer-in-Charge (Odisha), has come forward to set up a Covid care facility for the patients of...