Bhubaneswar: The Congress Friday slammed the NDA government at the Centre and the BJP dispensation in Odisha over reports of missing more than 36,000 women and 8,400 children in the state. Addressing media persons here, newly appointed AICC in-charge of Odisha Ajay Kumar Lallu asked...
Bhubaneswar: The opposition BJD and Congress Friday staged a walkout in the Odisha Assembly expressing dissatisfaction with the state Higher Education minister Suryabanshi Suraj's reply to the debate on the KIIT issue. Members cutting across party lines expressed disappointment with what happened at KIIT after...
Bhubaneswar: The Matriculation (Class-X) examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha commenced Friday with over 5.22 lakh students appearing in the test. The matriculation examination is being held from 9 am to 11.30 am in 3,133 examination centres. It will continue till...
Pipli: In a show of exceptional generosity, three sisters of a Bengali Zamindar family have donated 35 decimals of their prime ancestral land in the appliqué hub here valued at over Rs 3 crore to Pipli Bazaar Panchu Dola Melana Committee. The historic festival of...
Kathmandu/Bhubaneswar: The last rites of Prakriti Lamsal, the Nepali student who died by “suicide” in her hostel at KIIT University, were performed in Bhairawa, Nepal, Thursday. Mentionably, Lamsal, a 20-year-old third-year B.Tech student, was found hanging in her hostel room Sunday. Following her death, her...
Bhubaneswar: Days after the unnatural death of an engineering student from Nepal and subsequent attacks of students from the neighbouring country, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) founder Achyuta Samanta Thursday tendered an apology to the parents of the Nepalese pupils and urged all those...
Bhubaneswar: Newly appointed Odisha Congress president Bhakta Charan Das Thursday said that the state is going to witness a "big political revolution", whose foundation was laid now. The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) led by Das took out a 60-km Sankalp Padayatra from Bhubaneswar to...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has decided to set up electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at 100 places in the first phase, the Assembly was informed Thursday. Commerce and Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena said 21 charging stations would be established in Bhubaneswar, 38 in various regional...
Bhubaneswar: In an apparent dig at VK Pandian, who was a close aide of former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, state Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari Thursday said that the '5T' had announced the construction of 52 new cyclone shelters without sufficient funds...
Bhubaneswar: With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting thunderstorms and lighting in Odisha for three days till Sunday, the Odisha government put at least 25 districts under alert. Light to moderate rainfall took place Thursday morning in many places, including Bhubaneswar and in the districts...
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