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Bhubaneswar: Odisha has been awarded as second best performer in the country in various activities organised for World No Tobacco Day 2024, Thursday. Additional Secretary and Director, National Health Mission Aradhana Pattnaik felicitated Odisha with a certificate and citation. Director, Public Health Nilakantha Mishra received...

Bhubaneswar: Noted author and policy advocate Charudutta Panigrahi is scheduled to visit Harvard University, in the first week of October, where he is scheduled to interact with students and speak about India’s bold and progressive reforms which have been driven by conviction rather than compulsion,...

Bhubaneswar: Sixteen scientists have been chosen to receive Odisha Bigyan Academy awards for 2023 by the Science and Technology department. This year the recipients have been clubbed into five categories. According to a release issued by the department, Prof Kshirod Kumar Jena of the School...

Bhubaneswar: Odia playback singer Pami Mishra Thursday lodged an FIR at Cyber police station against a city-based production house for allegedly plagiarising her song, and uploading the same on their Youtube channel. In her FIR, Mishra said, “The owner of the production house, a couple-...

Bhubaneswar: A day after an assistant mining officer (AMO) of the Deputy Director of Mines office in Koraput was viciously attacked by sand smugglers amid reports of certain police officials’ tacit support to the mafia, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Law and Order, Sanjay...

Bhubaneswar: Two days after India reported its first case of monkeypox (mpox), caused by the virulent Clade 1b strain, which was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has issued an advisory to all...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to grant maternity and paternity leaves to employees opting for surrogacy, an official notification said. According to the notification issued by the state Finance Department Thursday night, female employees can avail of 180 days of leave while male staffers...

Bhubaneswar: The district Superintendents of Police in Odisha have been directed to take stringent action against the field officers engaged in non-policing and unauthorised activities under their respective jurisdictions. The Additional DGP (Law and Order) Sanjay Kumar has recently written a letter to all the...

Bhubaneswar: A day after labelling the ruling BJP as ‘anti-tribal’, Opposition BJD Thursday criticised the Odisha government for neglecting backward class communities. Addressing reporters, BJD Rajya Sabha MPs Sasmit Patra and Subhashish Khuntia accused the Mohan Charan Majhi government of hindering the progress of Other...

Bhubaneswar: BJP president and Union Minister JP Nadda Thursday came down heavily on opposition Congress and labelled the party as the ‘spokesperson of urban naxals.’ Nadda made these remarks while addressing a meeting to mark the BJP's membership drive in Odisha. "The Congress has become...