Metro

What is the conclave about? It is essentially an initiative by the EGI to stamp its presence across the country and dispel the notion that the body is Delhi centric. In fact, the organisation is meant to represent editors from across the country. T he...

What difference you see in today’s journalism? In my 47 years of journalism career, I have been witness to many things like Emergency and growth of private television channels as well as internet, which has changed the character and complexion of media in India and...

Bhubaneswar: In yet another instance of the dismal security arrangement inside the Jharpada Special Jail in Bhubaneswar, five prisoners attacked the jailer and two warders with a sharp-edged weapon, Friday. The jail officials were admitted to a hospital and their condition is stated to be...

Bhubaneswar: Congress in-charge and party’s candidate from the Jamshedpur East constituency, Ajoy Kumar accused Odisha Governor and former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Raghubar Das of involving in active politics and campaigning for his daughter-in-law in the upcoming Jharkhand elections. Kumar urged the Chief Election Commissioner...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 2,201 pregnant women evacuated to maternity centres by the Odisha government ahead of Cyclone Dana's landfall gave birth during the calamity. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi congratulated the mothers and wished well for their newborns, which included 18 sets of twins....

Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: Severe cyclonic storm Dana struck the eastern coast early Friday, triggering torrential rain and high-speed winds uprooting trees and electric poles and caused significant damage to infrastructure and crops in some districts of Odisha and West Bengal. While Odisha claimed that it achieved its...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday praised health worker Sibani Mandal for her selfless service during Cyclone Dana that made landfall in the state earlier during the day. Majhi praised ASHA worker Mandal for carrying multiple people on her back to a cyclone...

Bhubaneswar: Relief and restoration work by Odisha Police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), fire services, the energy department, and other departments are underway on a war footing after Cyclone Dana made landfall on the Odisha coast, an official said...

New Delhi: As Cyclone Dana made landfall in Odisha early Friday, leaders including Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi took to social media to address the situation. Cyclone Dana struck the northern coast of Odisha at 5:30 A.M., impacting...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday said that the state has achieved its "Zero Casualty Mission" as there has been no report regarding any loss of human life or injury in the severe cyclonic storm Dana which made landfall in the coast Thursday...