Metro

Bhubaneswar: Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra held a review meeting Thursday to assess the activities of the department at the Lok Seva Bhawan conference hall. The meeting was attended by department principal secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh, Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation...

Bhubaneswar: Rs 33.7 crore Central funds has been allocated to Odisha in the last three years, including Rs 12.29 crore in 2023-24, for conservation, maintenance and development works at heritage sites in the state, Minister of Culture, Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekawat informed the Parliament Thursday....

Bhubaneswar: A delegation of MPs from the state, including Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, called on Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu in New Delhi Thursday over demands to expand and improve airport connectivity, passenger facilities and strengthen communication infrastructure in the state. The...

Bhubaneswar: The shadow of the political slugfest between BJP and Congress in Parliament reached Odisha, as members of both parties held protests against each other in different parts of the state including Bhubaneswar Thursday. The Congress members staged demonstrations against Union Home Minister Amit Shah's...

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to undertake a two-day visit to Odisha in the last week of this month mainly to attend several BJP programmes, state party president Manmohan Samal said Thursday. Stating that the detailed schedule on Saha was yet to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday embarked on a five-day visit to New Delhi and Rajasthan during which he will attend several official meetings, CMO sources said. Majhi who left Bhubaneswar Thursday evening will reach the national capital and spend night there before...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's main opposition party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday said there should be no politics over the alleged physical altercation between MPs of the Congress and BJP in Parliament earlier in the day. The BJD, headed by former chief minister Naveen Patnaik, said that...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday said he was praying for the speedy recovery of BJP's Balasore MP Pratap Sarangi, claiming that he got injured because of the ‘irresponsible and objectionable’ behaviour of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Parliament. Majhi said "such actions"...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo has asked Energy department officials to take steps for recovery of pending electricity dues of industrial units. Singh Deo gave this direction while chairing a review meeting focused on the recovery of pending electricity duties from...

Bhubaneswar: A POCSO court here Wednesday awarded four years of jail term to a 40-year-old man after holding him guilty of sexually abusing his minor daughter under Banapur police limits in 2021. The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 5,000 on the convict, Gayadhar...