Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has ordered disciplinary action against seven police officers and decided to blacklist a private technology firm after an enquiry into the June 29 stampede near the Gundicha Temple in Puri during the Rath Yatra, which claimed three lives and left several...

Cuttack: The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) swung into action at the Baliyatra ground Saturday morning following food safety raids. According to officials, several stalls under ORMAS were found selling stale food items, including large quantities of spoiled yogurt unfit for consumption. Authorities said strict action...

RESHMI YADAV, OP Bhubaneswar: Generation Z — often represented and referred to those born between the mid-1990s and 2012 — are the ones to grow up surrounded by technology. However, this constant digital stimulation has come with a cost — a disrupted sleep cycle, deteriorating...

Nuapada: BJP leader and Puri MP Sambit Patra Friday criticised the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and its president Naveen Patnaik, accusing them of showing disrespect to the family of late BJD MLA Rajendra Dholakia. Speaking at a press meet in Nuapada, held in the presence...

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking case of cybercrime in the City here, fraudsters posing as Mumbai Crime Branch officials duped a senior chartered accountant (CA) of Rs 1.5 crore after subjecting him and his wife to a ‘digital arrest’ for 10 days. The victim, identified as...

Puri: A devotee was detained by police for carrying hidden cameras fitted in his spectacles inside Srimandir here Friday, officials said. He was identified as Bharat Pandya from Ahmedabad in Gujarat. While photography and videography are strictly prohibited inside the 12th-century shrine, this is the...

Bhubaneswar/Nuapada: Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) RS Gopalan Friday instructed the District Election Officer (DEO) and Superintendent of Police to ensure that all political functionaries and party workers from outside the Nuapada constituency leave the area after the end of campaigning for the bypoll. Addressing...

Bhubaneswar: The form fill-up process for the 2026 Annual High School Certificate (HSC) Examination in Odisha will reportedly begin November 8, 2025, and continue till November 22, 2025. According to the official notification issued by Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha, candidates have been divided...

Cuttack: Orissa High Court Friday directed Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M to appear in person and file an affidavit explaining his public remarks on a case currently under the court's consideration. The direction came from a single-judge bench of Justice Sashikanta Mishra, which was hearing...

Bhubaneswar: A 30-year-old man from Maharashtra was arrested by the Odisha Police for allegedly duping an investor with the promise of high returns, officials said Friday. Savyasachi Pisolkar (30), a native of Maharashtra's Nashik district, was arrested by the Cyber Crime unit on the basis...