Metro

Bhubaneswar: Tata Steel Friday commissioned country’s largest blast furnace at its Kalinganagar plant, which will help increase the production capacity to 8 million tonne per annum from 3 million tonne per annum, the company said in a release. The company commenced the Rs 27,000-crore second...

Bhubaneswar: The City University of New York (CUNY) Friday announced the establishment of a research institute on its premises in the name of KIIT and KISS founder Achyuta Samanta. The university will provide an opportunity to the students to engage in research about Odisha’s rich...

Bhubaneswar: A local court Friday awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) to two drug peddlers after convicting them of charges of possessing 1.05 kg brown sugar in 2022. The market value of the seized contraband was stated to be Rs 2 crore, said an...

Bhubaneswar: The Chandaka Police Friday detained seven men who had allegedly misbehaved with Major Gurvansh Singh and his female friend early Sunday when they were confronted for driving rashly. The development came a day after DGP YB Khurania ordered the Crime Branch to bring the...

Bhubaneswar: The water level in river Subarnarekha receded and flowed below the danger level Friday, though several villages in Odisha's Balasore district remained inundated in the flood waters, officials said. According to the water resources department, the water level of Subarnarekha at Rajghat was 9.63...

Bhubaneswar: Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida, also the Mission Shakti Minister, inaugurated a Mission Shakti auditorium and Mission Shakti call centre on the premises of Mission Shakti Bhawan at Pokhariput here, Friday. The auditorium, a state-of-the-art facility with a seating capacity of 400, was constructed...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress Friday alleged that women are not feeling safe in the state as the law and order has collapsed under the BJP rule and more incidents of rape are taking place. Addressing a press conference here, Congress' women's wing leader Sonali Sahu...

Bhubaneswar: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, former Army chief VK Singh and several others Friday reacted angrily to the alleged torture of an army man and "sexual assault" of his fiancée inside a police station in Odisha. They slammed the state's BJP...

Bhubaneswar: The alleged sexual assault of an army officer's fiancee at a police station here sparked outrage Friday with former chief minister Naveen Patnaik condemning the incident as "shocking" and demanding a judicial probe while state chief minister Mohan Majhi vowing to take stringent action...

Keonjhar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday said his government will take stringent action against those involved in the alleged torture of an army officer and “sexual assault” of his fiancée at Bharatpur Police Station in Bhubaneswar. Majhi, who is on a tour of...