Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha forest department has reassigned protection squads from forest divisions to circle levels for more effective wildlife protection, an official said Monday. This decision comes at a time when there have been more than 40 reported elephant deaths during the current financial year....

Berhampur/Bhubaneswar: The state government has planned to expand the driving training centres for improving road safety, Commerce and Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhushan Jena said while addressing an event organised by Institute of Driving Training and Research, Palur, Berhampur to mark its first anniversary, Sunday. Jena...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has issued a tender notice for the construction of the Rayagada Railway Division, marking a crucial development in regional infrastructure. This project follows the recent announcement by the Railway Minister, who allocated Rs 70 crore to establish the new...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 5,000 chickens were culled in Pipili in the last two days amid the bird flu scare in Odisha. According to sources, a 13-member team has been constituted to carry out the mass killing of the infected birds in the area to...

Khurda: Tension ran high as miscreants chased and hacked a youth to death in broad daylight at Chachra Sabar Sahi Square near Jatni by-pass road in Khurda, Sunday. A separate group also assaulted another youth and rendered him critical at Mukundaprasad Square before absconding. The...

Bhubaneswar: Mystery shrouds the death of 57-year-old Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) scientist Sandip Kumar Mishra after the acclaimed cancer researcher passed away under suspicious circumstances at Capital Hospital, late Saturday. Mishra lived in Satya Nagar area of the City along with his family, said a source...

Bhubaneswar: A senior leader of the Odisha Congress Sunday reminded Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi that the BJP had forged an alliance with Jammu and Kashmir's People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015 and his attack on the Congress is “hilarious”. Biswaranjan Mohanty's assertion came a...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Odisha September 17 to launch the 'Subhadra Yojana', a scheme of the BJP government in the state for women, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Sunday said. Speaking to media persons after visiting Jagannath temple in Puri, the...

New Delhi: Thirteen-year-old Tanvi Patri from Odisha has cemented her status as one of India's most promising badminton prodigies by clinching the girls' singles title at the U-15 Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships in Chengdu, China, the country where she first honed her...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Thirteen-year-old Tanvi Patri from Odisha clinched the under-15 girls singles title at the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 junior championships after she defeated Thi Thu Huyen Nguyen of Vietnam in straight games in the final in Chengdu, China Sunday. The 13-year-old Patri, seeded...