Metro

Bhubaneswar: An alarming shift in global eating habits is a matter of concern as it poses a range of health hazards, experts said Tuesday on the occasion of World Food Day observed worldwide October 16. The growing reliance on packaged and processed foods, driven by...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Prasanna Patasani Tuesday blamed former bureaucrat-turned-politician VK Pandian for the fall of the 24- year-old Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government in Odisha, and asserted that he was forced to leave BJD because of the former. Patasani, who was elected to Lok...

Bhubaneswar: A 23- year-old man, an engineer by training, ended his life by allegedly jumping from the terrace of an eight-storied building in Kharavela Nagar area here early Tuesday. IIC, Kharavela Nagar police station, Rajanikanta Mishra said that residents of Chandrama Apartments, near Master Canteen...

Bhubaneswar: Taking suo motu cognisance of the alleged gangrape of a 34-year-old woman of Puri in Delhi, the Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) Tuesday urged the National Commission for Women (NCW) and Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) to initiate a probe into the ‘shame’...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will embark on a four-day visit to Haryana and Mumbai beginning Wednesday. Majhi will be in Haryana for two days. He will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the BJP-led Haryana government Thursday and also attend a meeting of all...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new BJP government in Haryana Thursday, an official statement said. Later in the day, he will participate in a conference of CMs of NDA-ruled states in Chandigarh, it said. The swearing-in...

Bhawanipatna/Bhubaneswar: Four children allegedly died by drowning in two separate incidents in Odisha's Khurda and Kalahandi districts Tuesday, police said. In Khurda, a 13-year-old girl and her younger brother drowned while they were bathing in a pond. The incident happened in the morning in Subala...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Tuesday said it will seal borders with neighbouring states when it begins paddy procurement for the kharif season next month. The decision was taken during a review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, attended by ministers and departmental secretaries....

Bhubaneswar: A 13-year-old girl and her younger brother drowned in a pond while bathing in Odisha's Khurda district Tuesday morning, police said. The incident occurred this morning when the siblings went to the pond in Subala village under Balianta police limits on the outskirts of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has asked a senior IPS officer to visit Delhi and review the progress of the probe into the rape of a woman from the state in the national capital, an official statement said. A 34-year-old woman from Odisha...