Cuttack: The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) is taking steps to make the city polythene free after the government decided to impose a blanket ban on use of plastic and polythene bags. The slogan, ‘Say no to Polythene’ was coined by the CMC authorities and was...
Bhubaneswar: A month after cyclone Fani ravaged Odisha after making landfall near Puri, more than five lakh people of 1.64 lakh households in the coastal districts are without electricity, an official said. At least 64 persons, including 39 from Puri district alone, were killed in...
Bhubaneswar: At the behest of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the state government has prepared an action plan to improve the ambient air quality in six towns of Odisha. The action plan has been prepared for six towns of the state – Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela,...
New Delhi: Government is planning to provide one kg of sugar to an additional 16.3 crore families through public distribution system (PDS) at a subsidised rate that will cost the exchequer Rs 4,727 crore and is also mulling offering additional foodgrains from buffer stock to...
New Delhi: The country’s manufacturing sector performance gained momentum in May as companies lifted output amid strengthening demand conditions, leading to further job creation in the sector, a monthly survey said Monday. The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, improved to 52.7 in May from...
New Delhi: Over 6,800 cases of bank fraud involving an unprecedented Rs 71,500 crore have been reported in 2018-19, the Reserve Bank of India has said. A total of 5,916 such cases were reported by banks in 2017-18 involving Rs 41,167.03 crore, it said. As...
New Delhi: India will hold a mega spectrum auction for 5G and other radiowaves in the current calendar year, and intends to start 5G trials in the next 100 days, the newly appointed Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Monday. Setting an action-packed agenda for...
New Delhi: Driven by a robust show by benchmark indices, investor wealth Monday rose by Rs 1.76 trillion as the BSE Sensex rallied 553 points to close at an all-time high level. The BSE 30-share index zoomed 553.42 points or 1.39 per cent to close...
Bhubaneswar: The state association of IPS officers, Monday, bade farewell to former Director General of Police (DGP) Kunwar Brajesh Singh of 1985 batch Odisha cadre IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh in a special programme held at Police Bhavan here. He retired from the services as...
Choudwar: Even as various temples in Choudwar were crowded on the occasion of Savitri Brata Monday, the Choudwar Circle Jail witnessed a flurry of activities as many women jail inmates offered puja for the longer life of their husbands. Also, 22 out of 38 married...
India’s air-power shortcomings are becoming harder to ignore. Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, very publicly, flagging Pakistan’s collaboration with China...
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By Aakar Patel While Gandhi Jayanti is still fresh on our minds and the right to peaceful assembly is in...
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By Dilip Cherian A 10-officer reshuffle at the Additional Secretary level may look like routine housekeeping, but if you look...
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Lately, the Supreme Court’s intervention in high-profile cases does not necessarily arouse confidence and reassurance that wrongs may be righted....
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