Metro

Bhubaneswar: In a special initiative to mark the 150th anniversary of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’, students across Odisha will come together to sing the song November 7. The Department of Odia Language and Literature has written to the Department of School and Mass Education...

Puri/Berhampur: East Coast Railway (ECoR) will operate passenger special trains between Berhampur and Puri for three days starting Tuesday to manage the heavy rush of devotees travelling to Puri for the auspicious ‘Kartika Purnima’ festival and the 'Boita Bandana' rituals. According to ECoR sources, these...

Bhubaneswar: World-renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder and Life President of The Art of Living Foundation and Sri Sri University, will undertake a five-day visit to Odisha from November 6 to 10. The state government has accorded him the status of...

Bhubaneswar: The Khurda Road Division of East Coast Railway (ECoR) has once again emerged as the top-performing division in overall traffic handling, achieving an impressive 183 million tonnes of freight movement up to October 2025. The division handled 101 million tonnes of loading and 82...

Bhubaneswar: Aspirants of the Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Specialists exam staged a protest in front of the OSSC office here Monday, expressing deep concern over the prolonged delay in the recruitment process, which has remained pending since April 2025. In...

Bhubaneswar: In a pioneering effort, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar has initiated research into the toxicological effects of cycad plants in Odisha, following alarming findings of the neurotoxin BMAA ( -N-methylamino-L-alanine) in local cycad species. This comes as certain communities continue ancestral consumption of cycad products, such as ‘pitha’,...

Bhubaneswar: In a strongly-worded letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the Odisha State Government, the youth-led organisation Youth United for Sustainable Environment has raised serious concerns over unregulated construction, tree felling, borewell digging, and plastic waste dumping within the...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police recovered a leopard skin and arrested three persons in connection with the incident in Jaydev Vihar area here, police said Monday. The accused were identified as Rohit Mohapatra, 26, Manjit Sabat, 21, and Sambhu Bisoy, 23, they said. Acting on intelligence...

Bhubaneswar: Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati Monday launched a special two-month Raj Bhavan initiative at Capital Girls’ High School, Unit-II, Bhubaneswar, by distributing beetroot-carrot juice and peanut chikki to students to promote healthy dietary habits and combat anaemia. Under this initiative, the students of the school...

Bhubaneswar: The Union government has released the Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) grants for rural local bodies (RLBs) in Odisha for the financial year 2025–26, totalling over Rs 444 crore. The release includes the second instalment of Untied Grants amounting to Rs 342.60 crore, benefiting...