Metro

New Delhi: A 34-year-old woman from Odisha was allegedly raped and later dumped in a semi-conscious state in New Delhi, police said Saturday. According to officials, a passerby spotted the woman in Sarai Kale Khan area and informed the police around 3.30am Friday. A police...

Cuttack: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday said his government would take all possible measures to make Cuttack a smart city. Majhi said this after visiting various puja pandals in the millennium city. The tradition of Durga puja at Balubazar in the city is...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced Saturday that the southwest monsoon is likely to start retreating from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, parts of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and West Bengal over the next two days. The southwest monsoon has already withdrawn from Uttar Pradesh,...

Bhubaneswar: The festive season is incomplete without the sound of dhak, huge, almost cylindrical or barrel-shaped membranophone instrument from Bengal and Assam, suspended from the neck, tied to the waist and kept on the lap or the ground, and usually played with wooden sticks. Dhak...

New Delhi: A delegation from ‘Fagun’, a monthly Santali newspaper, met President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhawan here Friday, urging her for the development of Santali language and promotion of Ol Chiki script. A letter written in Ol Chiki script was submitted to the President...

Bhubaneswar: Exposing serious loopholes in the execution of the affordable housing scheme - Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) - under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), the beneficiaries were found to have been minting money by renting out the properties allotted to them for free in the Capital...

Bhubaneswar: Four bodies were found scattered around the Capital City – three under the jurisdiction of the Government Railway Police (GRP) and one under the Khandagiri police limits, Friday. In the first case, locals found the blood-stained body of Manoj Kumar Gauda, 25, a resident...

Bhubaneswar: In the face of the alarming rise in cyber crimes in the Capital City, the Commissionerate Police seems to be dragging its feet over measures to counter the clear and present danger. Sample this. Online criminals mopped up over Rs 10.61 crore from the...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday waived the ground rent for Durga Puja pandals across Odisha. Puja organisers expressed their gratitude for the Chief Minister’s gesture. The Chief Minister joined the festive spirit of Durga Puja as he visited several pandals in Bhubaneswar on...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's former legislator Niranjan Pradhan died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 67. The veteran politician was under treatment at the hospital for nearly a month after a brain stroke and breathed his last Thursday night, a source said. Pradhan's...