Metro

Bhubaneswar: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directives to the Odisha government and Shree Jagannath Temple Administration to stop ‘settling and selling of any of the properties of Lord Jagannath’. Advocate Shashank Shekhar Jha has filed the plea in the apex...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 67 coal blocks including 14 in Odisha were put up for sale Thursday by the Centre. The coal blocks in Odisha that have been put up for sale are: Machhakata, Mahanadi, Nuagaon Telisahi, Ramchandi Promotion Block, Alaknanda, Bartap, Burapahar, dip extension...

Bhubanewar: Different outfits in Odisha will support the ‘Bharat Bandh’ called Friday by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a farmers’ body comprising over 40 unions. They have demanded a complete repeal of the newly-enacted three farm laws and minimum support prices (MSP) for their produces....

New Delhi: Despite several disruptions in the Parliament owing to the three farm Bills and hike in fuel prices, the Odisha MPs raised a number of state specific demands ranging from railways to mining sector during the two phases of the Budget session. Biju Janata...

Bhubaneswar: The sixth meeting of State Employment Guarantee Council, constituted under Section 10 of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 was held Thursday under the chairmanship of Panchayati Raj Minister Pratap Jena. In the meeting, it was revealed that MGNREGA has made...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has reported 214 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike in the past two months, health officials said Thursday. The new cases pushed the tally to 3,39,460 with 3,36,337 recoveries and 1,919 deaths, officials added. Out of the...

Bhubaneswar: The State government is yet to take a decision regarding the closure of schools across Odisha, School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash said Thursday. Referring to school students testing positive for COVID-19, he said that not a single State government school or...

Bhubaneswar: Debasish Panda has emerged topper in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) mains. The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results for the March session, Thursday. A student of ODM Public School, Debasish has secured 99.959166 %. As many as 13 candidates have scored 100...

Bhubaneswar: The UK mutant strain of COVID-19 virus has been found in three persons in Odisha. The genome sequencing of infected persons was earlier done by the designated labs in India. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) gave this information Wednesday. The UK mutant...

Bhubaneswar: A large number of COVID-19 cases in educational institutions have been detected here recently including three of a private school, one of Kendriya Vidyalaya-1 and 34 students from Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB). The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has plans to step up...