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Bhubaneswar: Following the direction of Chief Minister, all government departments are working towards making identified public services available online. The government has set a target to make the services online by October 2, 2020. To this effect, a few services of Finance, Odia Language &...

Bhubaneswar: The Central government has claimed that the banks have disbursed Rs 1,462 crore to the MSMEs in Odisha under Emergency Credit Line Guarantee (ECLG) scheme during this pandemic. In a webinar, Wednesday, DG of PIB India Rajesh Malhotra said,  “As on August 3, 2020,...

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: It’s no more burning bright. Yes, the tiger population in the state has been reduced from 45 in 2006 to 28 in 2018, as per the Tiger Census of India data. The census states that the poor and continued decline in tiger status...

Bhubaneswar: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has warned the Khurda District Magistrate and Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of civil imprisonment for not complying with the earlier order of the tribunal. This comes after the Khurda Collector and DFO failed to submit an inspection report even...

Bhubaneswar: Doctors in the city performed a rare surgery successfully by reattaching the severed hand of a 24-year-old West Bengal driver who met with a road mishap here recently. The team of doctors who operated upon him claimed that this was a rare surgery with...

Bhubaneswar: If everything goes as per plan, the civil construction and installation of equipment for the cardiac care hospital at Jharsuguda will be completed by March 2021. Health & Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das and Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy reviewed the progress of the...

Puri: With the 15-day Anasara ritual of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhdra coming to an end Friday, the Nabajouban (rejuvenated youthfulness) Darshan ritual would be performed at Srimandir Saturday. As per tradition, Lord Jagannath and his siblings catch fever immediately after they receive...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP Tuesday targeted ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for ‘low’ Covid-19 testing rate in the state as compared to other states. Even the government is not implementing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s own instruction to test 15,000 samples each day, the BJP alleged. Speaking...

Khurda: A 35-year-old man was shot dead by some miscreants at Dadhimachha Gadia under Khurda Sadar police limits here Sunday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Lala Pradhan of the locality. A live bullet and four cartridges were seized from the spot, they...

Puri: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has introduced measures to boost immunity in Srimandir servitors in the wake of novel coronavirus outbreak, said an official of the 12th century shrine. The SJTA in association with Ayurveda Research Institute (Homoeopathy) under the Ministry of Ayush...