Trending

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was gang-raped by three men posing as cops at a park near Delhi's Kalkaji Mandir, officials have said. According to the officials, the girl and her friend went to Kalkaji Mandir at around 7pm Monday. After...

By Banchhanidhi Dey, OP Baleshwar: Students at a government high school in Baleshwar district are attending classes in a dilapidated brick-and-asbestos structure, as the school grapples with a shortage of classrooms and other infrastructure gaps, parents and local residents said. The Government Nodal High School,...

Mahakalapada: More than 30 tribal fishing families from villages in Mahakalapada block of Kendrapada district are living in makeshift polythene shelters on small islands within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. With the possibility of a cyclone forming over Bay of Bengal, concerns have been raised over...

Bhabanipatana: A Class IX student of Vikas Residential School in Bhabanipatana has built a two-seat solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) using scrap materials salvaged from a garage. Combining lessons in energy, engineering and hands-on learning, Swaraj Satapathy completed the vehicle in about three months and named...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: The seventh session of the 17th Odisha Legislative Assembly (Monsoon Session) begins Tuesday, with the Opposition gearing up to corner the government over the MMDR Amendment Act, flood management, school textbook errors, law and order, agrarian distress, and the trafficking of...

RABINARAYAN JENA, OP Bhubaneswar: Around 78 private hospitals and nursing homes in the state capital are facing the threat of losing their empanelment under the Ayushman Bharat scheme over alleged land-use and building plan violations. The State Health Assurance Society (SHAS) issued showcause notices to...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will deploy more than 200 battery-operated vehicles across the City for door-to-door waste collection, an official said. The decision was taken at the 44th general council meeting of the BMC, chaired by Mayor Sulochana Das, at Ekamra Hall of...

G Udayagiri: The Kalinga Ghat stretch on National Highway 157 along the Kandhamal-Ganjam border will remain closed for two days, September 23 and 24, in view of the possibility of a cyclone bringing heavy to very heavy rain and strong winds, thereby increasing risk of...

Dhamnagar: Dhamnagar Notified Area Council (NAC) Executive Officer Santosh Kumar Nayak was suspended over allegations of misuse of Form-7 and onetime passwords (OTPs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Nayak was suspended Monday. The suspension was ordered by the Additional Chief...

Aries: Logic and reasoning will hold court, while creativity takes a backseat today. There are challenges at work, but you are a dynamo and will meet them upfront. All tensions will be relieved by the loving touch of your near and dear. Such is life,...