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Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has incurred a loss of Rs 2.62 crore as it could neither develop the proposed citizen-centric services through IT-based platform, nor could it terminate the contract despite the failure of the project, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Bhubaneswar: After seven employees of State Bank of India (SBI) main branch in Unit-1 area of Bhubaneswar tested positive for COVID-19, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sunday sealed the office. The SBI main branch was sealed for the next two days to carry out sanitisation. BMC...

Bhubaneswar: With the detection of 471 new COVID-19 infections in last 24 hours, COVID-19 cases in Odisha Sunday remained over 400 for the third consecutive day. It is the highest one-day spike over past four months. According to state Information and Public Relations (I&PR) department,...

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday morning held a press conference here and accused the Odisha Legislative Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro of being biased. Leader of Opposition Pradipta Kumar Naik said that the Opposition parties are not being given adequate time inside the...

Bhubaneswar: Following the suspension of three senior BJP MLAs for hurling shoes and headphones at Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro’s podium during proceedings of the House, the Budget Session of Odisha Assembly was adjourned Saturday. Later in the evening, the Speaker adjourned all proceedings for the...

Bhubaneswar: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) claimed, in its report tabled in the Assembly Saturday, claimed that revenue to the tune of Rs 1,066.28 crore were under assessed/short levied or lost in 2018- 19 fiscal. The audit report stated that the test...

Bhubaneswar: Three senior BJP MLAs have been suspended from the ongoing Budget session for hurling shoes and headphones at Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro’s podium during the House proceedings Saturday. The suspended legislators are Opposition chief whip Mohan Charan Majhi, deputy Leader of Opposition Bishnu Charan...

Bhubaneswar: The Assembly Saturday passed six bills including the Odisha Lokayukta Amendment Bill on the last day of the session. The amendment was made to the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 to allow re-appointment of the chairperson and members of the panel. Now, after completion of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's COVID-19 tally mounted to 3,42,224 Saturday as 452 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. As many as 267 new cases were reported in quarantine centres, while 185 infections were detected during contact tracing, he said. Khurda district, under...

Khurda: Sohini Nayak, a resident of Khurda town, who once made Odisha proud by securing a place in the India Book of Records, is once again under the spotlight. Sohini has become the first girl in Odisha to own a patch of land on the...