Metro

Bhubaneswar: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sujeet Kumar, Tuesday, claimed that the party is likely to field Jay Dholakia, son of former Odisha Minister and late Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Rajendra Dholakia, as its candidate for the upcoming bye-election in the Nuapada Assembly...

Puri: A comprehensive security plan will be prepared soon for foolproof security of the 12th-century Shree Jagannath temple in Puri, Girish Chandra Murmu, the head of the security sub-committee of the shrine, said Tuesday. Murmu, a former Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and Comptroller...

Bhubaneswar: Eleven people were arrested in Odisha's Cuttack district for allegedly hunting bats, officials said Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the Forest Department intercepted an auto-rickshaw near Khuntuni Monday and found 796 dead bats and four live ones packed in two bags, they said. Those...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi spoke to the 23-year-old Durgapur gang rape survivor over the phone and assured her of all possible support. The survivor, a second-year MBBS student at a private medical college in West Bengal's Durgapur, was allegedly gang-raped by at...

Bhubaneswar: The Revenue and Disaster Management Department has introduced a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to streamline the registration of part plots across the state. The SOP aims to ensure uniformity, transparency, and ease of living for the public by superseding all previous guidelines. The...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Monday raised serious concerns over the safety of jewellery and valuables stored in Lord Jagannath's Ratna Bhandar at Puri, accusing the Odisha BJP government of misleading the public in the name of religion. The regional outfit also expressed...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Monday strongly condemned the gang rape of a woman medical student from Odisha in West Bengal's Durgapur and questioned the Odisha BJP government's response to sexual assault cases within the state. In a press statement, the party accused...

New Delhi: Calling for an urgent political intervention to end the decades-long Mahanadi river water dispute, retired Supreme Court judge Justice V Gopala Gowda Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Ministers of Odisha and Chhattisgarh to come to the mediation table and...

Bhubaneswar: The city is home to 47,126 stray dogs, accounting for around 3.62 per cent of the state capital's 13 lakh population, an official statement issued by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said Monday. Of the total stray dog population in the BMC area, 23,047...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Police have arrested a youth for spreading communal hatred through social media, a senior officer said  Monday. The cybercrime police arrested the accused, identified as Arshad Alli (19), on Sunday night in connection with a case registered based on a written complaint lodged...