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Bhubaneswar: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday awarded Odisha as the best state in the country for road safety initiatives during the sixth edition of FICCI’s Road Safety Conclave held in New Delhi. Pradeep Kumar Mohanty, Joint Transport Commissioner (Road Safety), received...

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court Wednesday commuted the death sentence, awarded by a trial court to a man for killing three members of a family in Sambalpur in 2020, to life imprisonment. According to the prosecution, Nabin Dehury, along with his son Hemananda Dehury, axed...

Cuttack: A court in Odisha's Cuttack district Wednesday sentenced nine people to life imprisonment for murdering two elderly BJP workers in 2021. The Additional District Judge at Salepur, however, acquitted one of the accused for lack of evidence against him. Kulamani Baral (75) and Dibyasingh...

Bhubaneswar: Accusing the BJP of changing its attitude towards the tribals, Dalits and OBCs after coming to power in Odisha, the opposition Congress and BJD Wednesday called for a resolution in the Assembly to increase the reservation cap beyond the current 50 per cent. The...

Cuttack: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money Wednesday stressed the need to regulate online gambling and rising narcotic trade and asked anti-corruption probe agencies to coordinate with Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax for better results. SIT vice-chairman Justice (Retd) Arijit...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health Department is on its toes following detection of a suspected case of Avian Influenza (bird flu) infection in a man in Puri district. Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Minister, Mukesh Mahaling Wednesday asserted that the department was fully prepared to tackle...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo Wednesday informed the Assembly that the state government will soon start the process for inclusion of new farmers under the CM KISAN scheme. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, in his first budget speech, had announced the rolling...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has set a new benchmark in freight transportation by loading 100.57 million tonne (MT) of freight in just 148 days, during the current fiscal year of 2024-25, up to August 26, an official statement said. ECoR had taken 152...

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths Tuesday arrested Kotagarh police ASI Rajanikanta Das while accepting Rs 15,000 as a bribe. According to Vigilance sources, Das was taken into custody when he was demanding and receiving the amount from a man to help him and his friends in a...

Bhubaneswar: The Wetlands for LiFE Media Students Engagement Programme, held recently at the KIIT School of Mass Communication (KIITSMC), brought together media professionals, environmental experts, and conservationists to explore the role of media in promoting wetland conservation. Organised by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS),...