Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has earned recognition at the National Panchayat Awards 2025, winning two prestigious honours in newly-introduced special categories. The awards will be presented Thursday during the National Panchayati Raj Day (NPRD) celebrations at Lohna Uttar Gram Panchayat in Madhubani district, Bihar. The Hatbadra Gram...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi launched Works department’s project monitoring dashboard – to monitor various infrastructure projects across the state in real time and with greater accuracy – at Lok Seva Bhawan here Wednesday. According to official sources, the advanced GIS-based dashboard allows users...

Bhubaneswar: The state Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Wednesday approved continuation of the Emergency Medical Ambulance Service (EMAS) from 2023–24 to 2027–28, official sources said. The EMAS, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the state...

Bhubaneswar: The state Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday approved Rs 108 crore for the construction of the integrated Anandapur Barrage Project in Keonjhar district. The decision was among six major proposals cleared across five departments. Briefing the media, Chief Secretary Manoj...

Bhubaneswar: Many political parties and a number of organisations Wednesday evening took out candlelight marches across Odisha, condemning the Pahalgam terror attack and expressing solidarity with the families of the victims. Congress members, led by OPCC president Bhakta Charan Das, took out a candlelight march...

Bhubaneswar: Normal life was severely affected in western Odisha Wednesday as heatwave conditions swept across 10 districts, with Jharsuguda recording the highest temperature in the state at 45.4 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. As many as 16 places across the state, mostly...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to finalise its vision document for 2036 and 2047 in the next 15 days after consulting with public representatives, common citizens, members of civil society and intellectuals at various levels, an official statement said  Wednesday. This decision was taken...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Congress in Odisha Wednesday condemned the terror attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam in which 26 people, including one from the state, were killed. OPCC president Bhakta Charan Das alleged that the Pahalgam incident exposed "intelligence failure" and...

Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday conducted searches at 12 locations across five districts in Odisha as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in the Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) recruitment in 2023. The central agency had registered a case in this connection...

Bhubaneswar: Forty-one-year-old Prashant Satpathy of Odisha's Balasore district, who was gunned down by terrorists in front of his wife and nine-year-old son in Baisaran meadow, had saved money for months for their Kashmir trip and was excited about it, his family said Wednesday. Upon hearing...