Puri: Servitors Monday performed ‘Adhar Pana', a ritual of offering sweet water to the deities on their chariots, a day before their return to the Jagannath temple in Puri, which will mark completion of the Rath Yatra festival. The idols of Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has resolved more than 10,000 public grievances during 11 rounds of hearings since assuming office, the CMO said Monday. According to a statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO), 10,132 out of 10,894 grievances received so far have...
Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik was Monday discharged from a private hospital in Mumbai, where he underwent a spine surgery for cervical arthritis, a party leader said. The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Odisha assembly underwent the medical procedure June 20. “The LoP was...
Bhubaneswar: Manmohan Samal is set to be re-elected as Odisha BJP president as he was the lone person to file a nomination paper for the post Monday. Samal, the incumbent state party president, filed the nomination paper for the post before Odisha BJP Election Officer...
Bhubaneswar: Senior leader of opposition Biju Janata Dal, Lekhasri Samantsinghar, Monday approached the State Commission for Women (SCW), Odisha, demanding the arrest of BJP MLA from Nilgiri constituency Santosh Khatua for allegedly passing extremely derogatory and sexist remarks against Samantsinghar a couple of days back....
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Jindal (India) Ltd Monday said the company has received a letter of approval from the Odisha government for its proposed greenfield project in the state to be set up with an investment of Rs 3,600 crore. The company plans to invest Rs 15,000...
Bhubaneswar: To provide quality healthcare to people living in remote Nabarangpur district, Odisha government Monday airlifted a team of doctors from SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, for a four-day health camp. As part of the camp, being held under the ‘Mukhya Mantri Bayu Swasthya...
Bhubaneswar: India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a heavy rainfall warning for 16 of 30 districts of Odisha for Monday. In a weather bulletin, IMD Bhubaneswar Centre said a low-pressure area had formed over the Gangetic West Bengal and neighbourhood Sunday. It is likely to...
Bhubaneswar: Two women were killed and an eight-year-old girl was injured after a wall of an under-construction poultry farm collapsed due to heavy rain in Odisha's Nuapada district, police said Monday. The incident occurred Sunday in the Lakhana area after the wall collapsed, and the...
Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha, has released the first selection merit list for Plus 2 e-admissions for the academic year 2025–26, a source said Monday. The source added that out of a total of 4,46,205 applicants across the state, 4,13,804 students have...
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