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Bhubaneswar: If things go as per plan, a new medical college and hospital in Kandhamal would be completed within 30 months. This was revealed at a review meeting of a high-level team of state government officials at Phulbani. On the direction of Chief Minister Naveen...

Bhubaneswar: Even though the state government has formed Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA) in order to ensure employment opportunities for educated youths, data tabled in the Assembly shows that only one third of the skilled youths have got placements in the last five years. As...

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday accused the BJD workers of attacking their worker during a campaign rally in Pipli Assembly constituency where bypoll is scheduled for April 17. The BJP claimed that one of their party workers was attacked in the Sahajpur panchayat...

Cuttack/Bhubaneswar: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Friday said inculcating reading habit among children from a young age will help strengthen their foundational literacy and personality. The Vice-President called upon the educationists, intellectuals, parents and teachers to bestow special attention in promoting the reading habit among...

Bhubaneswar: Gastroenterologists from the Capital city have opined that complex surgeries of the gastrointestinal tract have become possible due to the advent of least invasive techniques. Dr Manoj Sahu, the senior gastroenterologist, associated with World Health Organisation (WHO) for Hepatitis Eradication at an event recently...

Pipili: BJD workers allegedly attacked BJP workers who participated in BJP candidate Ashrit Pattanayak’s rally at Raigurupur here Friday making the political atmosphere in the area volatile. Protesting against the attack on them, Pattanayak, his followers and party workers staged a dharna on Delang-Raigurupur road....

Pipili: Among the candidates who are in the fray for Pipili by-election, Congress’s Ajit Mangaraj is the richest. As per the poll affidavits the candidates submitted at the time of filing nomination papers, Mangaraj is the richest with total assets of Rs 7.04 crore. While...

Bhubaneswar: The State police have grossly failed in tackling cyber crime in Odisha and have put in little effort in this regard. As a result, cyber criminals have become active and duped lakhs of rupees in the State. This was revealed Friday in a report...

Cuttack: Commissionerate Police in Cuttack arrested Friday morning six touts including four ambulance drivers for allegedly diverting patients to private hospitals from SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH). Giving this information Cuttack DCP Prateek Singh said that Mangalabag police arrested two employees of SCBMCH and the...

Bhubaneswar: An 11-year-old boy foiled an abduction bid by miscreants in this city recently. The matter came to light when the parents of the boy submitted CCTV footage to officials of the Infocity police station. The abduction bid took place March 30, a police official...