Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha BJP will hold its first executive committee meeting in Puri from July 19 after forming its government in the state and the saffron party’s national president JP Nadda will attend the event, a party functionary said Tuesday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was...

Puri: The inner chamber of Srimandir's Ratna Bhandar will be opened July 18 again, chairman of the high-level committee Justice Biswanath Rath said Tuesday. "We will again open the locks and enter Bhitara Ratna Bhandar between 9:51 am and 12:15 pm July 18. The valuables in...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has said that Odisha would oppose inter-state irrigation projects which adversely affect the life and livelihood of people. Majhi said this while taking a review of inter-state irrigation projects in Odisha Monday. The meeting discussed disputes between Odisha and...

Bhubaneswar: As an outreach educational programme, the Regional Science Centre (RSC), Bhubaneswar, launched two Mobile Science Exhibition (MSE) buses in rural districts of the state, Monday. The event was flagged off by National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) director Hirendra Nath Ghosh and...

Bhubaneswar: Bahuda Yatra, the return journey of the sibling deities of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra after their nine-day stay at their aunt’s house, was celebrated with religious fervour here Monday. Braving intermittent rain, devotees thronged various temples in the City to pull...

Bhubaneswar: To provide a comfortable journey to devotees and to avoid rush in regular trains to and from Puri, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run 43 special trains to Puri for Suna Besha and another 33 during the Adharapana ritual of sibling...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated the first-ever ‘Kaushal Bhawan’ at the World Skill Centre here on the occasion of World Youth Skill Day Monday, an initiative which is expected to revolutionise the hospitality sector by training the youths under the motto ‘Atithi Devo...

Bhubaneswar: More than 1,700 people from different parts of the state registered their names to place their grievances before Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi at the Chief Minister’s Grievance Cell here Monday. Majhi heard the grievances of the people from 10am to 4:30pm and assured...

Bhubaneswar: Baikuntha Pradhan, an Assistant Section Officer (ASO) at the Puri Raj Bhavan, who was allegedly assaulted by Odisha Governor Raghubar Das's son, has been transferred to the Home Department, according to an official order. “Pradhan, ASO, Parliamentary Affairs Department, at present deployed to the...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Monday said it will conduct an inquiry into why the duplicate keys of the inner chamber of the Ratna Bhandar, the treasury of the 12th-century Jagannath temple in Puri, could not open the locks July 14. The Ratna Bhandar was reopened...