Metro

Bhubaneswar: The Union government gave green signal for the construction of the Brutanga irrigation project in Nayagarh district, an official statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office said Monday. Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) gave the final clearance for the diversion of...

Bhubaneswar: Popular Odia singer Humane Sagar has once again landed in a soup for allegedly distorting a bhajan of Lord Jagannath. Human Right activist Siba Sundar Swain has lodged a written complaint against Humane and Ruku Suna demanding immediate action against the duo. As per...

Khurda: Making reels turned out to be disastrous for two youths as they fell into a waterfilled stone quarry at Bada Saunlia under Tapang police limits in this district Monday. Till the time last reports came in one of the youths had been rescued by...

Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu Monday said establishing harmony with nature is the need of the hour. Inaugurating the Divine Retreat Centre of Brahma Kumaris at Haridamada village near Bhubaneswar, Murmu said forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, rain, and air are essential for the survival of...

Puri: The chariots of the sibling deities, Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra, reached the Gundicha temple Monday, with which the first leg of the Rath Yatra celebrations in Odisha's Puri concluded. Thousands of people pulled the chariots, while lakhs of devotees gathered on...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday directed all the district collectors to initiate steps to remove illegal encroachment from government lands, both in urban and rural areas across the state. Majhi said that the step is essential as the development work has been...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday announced an incentive of Rs 15 lakh each for hockey player Amit Rohidas and javelin thrower Kishore Jena who will be representing India in the Paris Olympics. The CM expressed hope that the incentive will inspire the...

Puri: At least two persons died and over 130 were injured in two different incidents during Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in Odisha, officials said Monday. A resident of Bolangir district died allegedly due to suffocation in a stampede-like situation Sunday during the Rath Yatra in...

Puri: President Droupadi Murmu, who is on a four-day visit to Odisha, spent some time at a sea beach in Puri Monday morning. She witnessed the annual Rath Yatra in the coastal pilgrim town Sunday.   Later, she penned her thoughts about her experience of...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik has dissolved all state-level office bearers of the party and formed a fresh panel of spokespersons, following the BJD's dismal show in the recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Odisha. However, the district-level BJD officer bearers...