Metro

Puri: BJD candidate for the Pipili by-polls Rudrapratap Maharathy filed his nomination here Tuesday.  Rudrapratap incidentally is the son of Pradeep Maharathy, who was the MLA of the Pipili constituency before his demise. With Tuesday being the last day of filing nominations, a number of...

Cuttack: Tension gripped the Bhubanananda Odisha School of Engineering (BOSE) in this town as students staged a demonstration in front of the institution after three of them tested positive for COVID-19. The students closed the main gate of the institution and resorted to burning tyres....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government said Tuesday that metro train service is not feasible in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack till 2041 as per a survey. Housing and Urban Development Minister Pratap Jena said this while replying to a question raised by Congress member...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 218 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s total caseload to 3,40,620, informed the I&PR department on its Twitter handle, Tuesday. Among the new cases, 129 were reported from quarantine centres while 89 contracted the virus locally....

Pipili: Tuesday being the last date for filing nominations for the Pipili by-election, BJD’s nominee Rudrapratap Maharathy, the son of late Pradeep Maharathy and Congress candidate Ajit Mangaraj are going to file their nominations. BJP’s Ashrit Pattanayak has already filed his nomination. As per the...

Bhubaneswar: With the Congress announcing the name of Ajit Mangaraj as its candidate for the by-election to the Pipili Assembly seat, polling for which is scheduled to take place April 17, the battle lines are now clearly drawn. The by-election is likely to witness a...

Cuttack:  Noted Odia music director Jalal Adeni passed away due to cardiac arrest at his residence in Pension Lane near Buxi Bazar in Cuttack Monday morning. He was 85. People from the film fraternity, friends and music lovers thronged his residence to pay their last...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik extended his greetings and best wishes to people on the auspicious occasion of Holi. He took to his twitter handle and posted a video message. “All of us are passing through a difficult period due to COVID-19. In order to...

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar claimed that its campus is completely ‘COVID-19 free’ though some coronavirus cases have been detected in the isolated quarantine centre. So far the campus has been COVID free except for 5 cases in September, 2020 and now...

Balianta: Tension gripped National Highway-316 here on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar under Dhauli police limits in Khurda district after a man was run down by a speeding car late Sunday night. The deceased has been identified as Manoj Behera of Jaipur village under Dhauli police...