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Bhubaneswar: Senior Odisha government officials have gone on a 'mass leave' in several districts of the state to protest an alleged incident of assault on an on-duty colleague. The stir by Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) and Odisha Revenue Service (ORS) officers has affected work. Bhubaneswar...

Bhubaneswar: Energy Ministers' Conclave will be held in Odisha by the end of this year in collaboration with Tony Blair Institute and IIT Kanpur, an official said Wednesday. Energy ministers from all over the country are expected to participate in the conclave. Odisha will take...

Bhubaneswar: The assault on BMC Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo, a senior OAS officer, Monday, has not only drawn widespread condemnations but also raised serious concern over the safety of on-duty public officials. Immediately after the incident, the Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) Association called for a...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) loaded a total of 68.19 million tonnes of freight from April to June 2025, compared to 62.2 million tonnes during the same period last year, a growth of 9.69 per cent, an official said. In the month of June...

By Arindam Ganguly, OP Bhubaneswar: The controversy surrounding the Combined Recruitment Examination (CRE) 2023 (IV), conducted by the Odisha Sub-ordinate Staff Selection Commission (OSSSC), has deepened with the announcement of revised main exam dates. The recruitment drive — for posts like Revenue Inspector (RI), Assistant...

Bhubaneswar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would visit Odisha July 11 to address a public meeting here, OPCC president Bhakta Charan Das said Tuesday. Das said that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal would accompany Gandhi. The top Congress leaders...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Tuesday arrested a senior officer after detecting in his possession assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said. "Dayanidhi Bagh, joint director, Soil Conservation & Watershed Development, Bhubaneswar, has been placed under arrest by Odisha Vigilance for possession of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday asked major private banks to extend more credit to poor people of the state under various welfare schemes. Majhi said this while meeting representatives of ICICI, Axis and HDFC Banks and suggested that they should provide more...

Puri: Following the death of three devotees in a stampede near Shree Gundicha Temple in Puri, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday reached the pilgrim town to review the arrangements made for the upcoming rituals related to Rath Yatra. Majhi is scheduled to meet...

Bhubaneswar: A day after Odisha Administrative Services (OAS) officer and Additional Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Ratnakar Sahoo was assaulted by some alleged supporters of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jagannath Pradhan, the party state unit president Manmohan Samal Tuesday suspended five BJP...