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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday urged the Centre to ensure at least 10 days stock of vaccines and Rs 300 crore for Covid management. Naveen has raised the demands at the meeting taken up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with all chief ministers through...

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of state Crime Branch has arrested a fraudster for cheating a Karnataka based investor of Rs 4.80 crore on the pretext of making him a partner in Black Granite business in 2017. One of the accused identified as Alaga...

Bhubaneswar: Rukuna Rath Yatra, the annual chariot festival of Lord Lingaraj, which is scheduled to be conducted April 20, will be done so without devotees, sources said Thursday. This is being done to prevent social gathering keeping in mind the steep rise in new COVID-19...

Bhubaneswar: In a step forward to empowering women at the grassroots level, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday directed the district Collectors to hand over unused assets of the state government to Mission Shakti Mahasanghs. The order applies to unused assets like government buildings, shops, and...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday asked the newly-recruited assistant executive engineers of the Water Resources (WR) department to keep themselves abreast of the emerging technologies and serve with full dedication. Attending the orientation programme for 275 graduate engineers who joined as assistant executive engineers...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Thursday decided to close borders with Chhattisgarh from April 10 to April 30 amid rising cases of COVID-19 being reported in that state. No public transport will be allowed to enter Odisha through the Chhattisgarh border and vice-versa, a source in the...

Bhubaneswar: With an aim to boost rural economy, the Odisha government has decided to develop rural economic corridor in each of the 147 assembly constituencies of the state. The decision was taken during a high-level meeting held under the chairmanship of Development Commissioner and additional...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha police collected over Rs 25 lakh in fine from violators on the first day of special COVID-19 enforcement drive, the agency said on Twitter Thursday. https://twitter.com/odisha_police/status/1380077666380869641 In view of the state reporting increasing numbers of fresh COVID-19 cases, the state government had instructed...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Minister Naba Kishore Das Thursday said that it has been made mandatory for people coming to Odisha from other states to produce RT-PCR negative test reports. Those arriving without test reports will have to undergo a seven-day quarantine,...

Cuttack: Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Thursday sealed Mahendra Coaching Centre at Arunodaya Nagar for violating COVID-19 guidelines. The increasing daily case of COVID-19 has been a cause of headache for the district administration and the civic body authorities. As part of the containment plan, CMC...