Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) Association Tuesday postponed its planned mass leave protest after a meeting with Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. The protest was in response to the assault on Ratnakar Sahoo, Additional Commissioner of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Earlier Monday, the...
Bhubaneswar: Senior Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahu was allegedly dragged from his office and assaulted by a group of miscreants Monday, police said. Sahoo has lodged an FIR at Kharvelnagar police station. "An FIR has been...
Balasore/Baripada: With major rivers in north Odisha in spate, the state government has started evacuating people from low-lying areas and launched rescue and relief operations in Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts, officials said Monday. The state government has sounded a red alert for both districts as...
Puri: At least three persons, including two women, were killed and around 50 others injured in a stampede near Shree Gundicha Temple in Odisha's Puri Sunday morning during a ceremony related to the ongoing Rath Yatra festivities, officials said. The incident took place around 4.20am...
Puri: At least three persons were killed and around 50 others injured in a stampede that took place near Shree Gundicha Temple in Odisha's Puri Sunday morning, a senior official said. The incident took place around 4 am when hundreds of devotees gathered near the...
Uttarkashi: Eight to nine labourers are missing after a cloudburst triggered a landslide in Baligarh along the Barkot-Yamunotri road in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district, washing away a labourers' campsite near an under-construction hotel and causing heavy damage to the area, authorities confirmed. Uttarkashi District Magistrate Prashant...
New Delhi: The 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' slogan reverberated on the International Space Station as Prime Minister Narendra Modi told astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla that his space travel marked the beginning of a new era and was the first step towards Mission Gaganyaan, India's own human...
Puri: Amid renewed enthusiasm, devotees Saturday resumed pulling the chariots of Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath, after the Rath Yatra in Puri was halted June 27 night. The chariots were scheduled to reach Gundicha temple, considered the aunt's place of the deities, by...
Puri: Lord Jagannath’s chariot, Nandighosha, which remained stationary on Bada Danda Friday, resumed its journey Saturday morning. The Grand Road echoed with the sounds of gongs and conches as the sacred procession continued, drawing lakhs of devotees who gathered to witness the divine spectacle. The...
Puri: Lord Jagannath devotees will get another chance to pull the chariots tomorrow as none of them reached their destination Friday after Lord Balabhadra's Taladhwaja chariot "got stuck while negotiating a turn, causing delays that prevented the others from arriving at Gundicha Temple, 2.6 kilometres...
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