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Bhubaneswar: Electricity consumers in Odisha Friday staged a demonstration before the state Assembly in Bhubaneswar demanding the withdrawal of the proposed power tariff hike. The agitation held under the banner of Odisha Electricity Consumers' Association also asked the BJP government to fulfil its election promise...

Cuttack: Two tug vessels — Ocean Jade and Ocean Morganite — were placed under arrest at Paradip Port Friday following an order issued by the Orissa High Court in connection with a high-stakes maritime dispute. The arrest was carried out in the presence of local...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has approved a budget outlay of Rs 27,019.25 crore for implementation of the Centre's Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and the state-sponsored Gopabandhu Jan Arogya Yojana for a period of five years – 2025-26 to 2029-30. The state Cabinet approved...

Bhubaneswar: Nine workers were injured due to a sudden explosion at the steel melting shop of Tata Steel's Kalinganagar plant in Odisha's Jajpur district Friday, police said. The incident took place at about 11.30 am, they said. "The nine injured persons were immediately taken to...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has given Rs 20.34 crore in compensation to 2,116 SC/ST atrocity victims from June until now, a minister said in the Assembly Friday. In response to Congress MLA Sofia Firdous' query, Nityanada Gond, the minister for ST & SC Development, Minorities...

Bhubaneswar: The Nepalese student, who died by suicide at KIIT in February, had lodged a complaint of sexual harassment before the varsity authorities in March last year, Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj told the Odisha assembly Friday. Replying to a written question from Congress MLA...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD in Odisha Friday nominated two senior leaders to represent the party in the meeting of the joint action committee (JAC) on delimitation in Chennai. The Naveen Patnaik-led BJD in a statement said that former minister Sanjay Das Burma and former MP Amar...

New Delhi/Cuttack: Justice Harish Tandon was Friday appointed as the next chief justice of the Orissa High Court, the law ministry said. He is at present a judge of the the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court collegium had earlier this month recommended the elevation...

Bhubaneswar: MLAs of the opposition Congress over crimes against women in the state rocked the Odisha assembly Friday morning, forcing Speaker Surama Padhy to call an all-party meeting after multiple adjournments failed to normalise the situation. As soon as the House assembled for the Question...

Bhubaneswar: A meeting convened here to resolve a dispute over the conduct of "untimely" Rath Yatra abroad by ISKCON ended inconclusively Thursday, a senior official said. The meeting held under the chairmanship of Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Divya Singha Deb was attended by religious scholars...