Odisha: Today’s pics

With temperatures rising in the Odisha capital, a man quenches his thirst from a water tanker on a road near VSS Nagar

CM Naveen Patnaik at the orientation programme for 900 newly-recruited lecturers for non-government colleges under the Higher Education Department at the Convention Centre in Loka Seva Bhavan in Bhubaneswar

Transport Commissioner Arun Bothra and Cuttack District Collector Bhawani Sankar Chayani preside over a state-level crash investigation training for police and transport officers organised at Shahid Bhawan in Cuttack

Excavation work is underway at the Emar Matha in the presence of ASI officials in Puri