Metro

Bhubaneswar: At least two workers died owing to asphyxiation while carrying out sewerage manhole cleaning at Brahmeswar Patana area near Tankapani Road in Bhubaneswar Friday morning. The deceased workers were identified as 55-year-old Sunaram Sardar and 25-year-old Siluku Barua. According to a source, the two...

Bhubaneswar: Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain Friday informed the Odisha Assembly that paddy would be procured from all registered farmers in the state by March 31. The House had witnessed pandemonium over alleged irregularities in paddy procurement and mandi issues in...

Bhubaneswar: Odia candidates Ritwika Panda and Aditya Vijayraj emerged as the State toppers in Paper-2A (B Arch) with NTA scores of 99.615 percentile. It was double whammy for Ritwika as she also emerged Odisha topper in Paper 2B (B Planning) with 99.379 percentile marks. The...

Puri: Soumya Ranjan Samal, donated Thursday Rs 1 crore to the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri. Samal’s wish is that the contribution be used for the development of ambitious Shreemandir Parikrama project here. According to a source, the devotee handed over the cheque...

Bhubaneswar: As expected normalcy in the Odisha Assembly returned Friday after a logjam of six consecutive days. This happened after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik assured Thursday aggrieved BJP lawmakers that their grievances and demands would be looked into. The BJP MLAs had marched to Naveen...

Cuttack: In a worrying development, 13 more students of a private college here tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday. With this, the total number of infected students in the college reached 25. Twelve students of the same college had earlier tested positive Wednesday. Contact tracing of...

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Bhubaneswar: In a major relief to a number of private unaided schools in Odisha, the Supreme Court Thursday exempted them from the binding effect of the state government’s notification directing waiver of fees for the pandemic period, beginning from April 2020 till reopening of schools....

Bhubaneswar: Agriculture Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo, Thursday, distributed appointment letters to the 65 newly recruited assistant fisheries officers (AFOs) at Krushi Odisha Conference Hall here on the fourth day of Krushi Odisha Mahotsav. Sahoo said that in fisheries sector, the state has enough opportunities for...

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