Puri: Frequent incidents of wrongdoings by Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) cops deployed at Srimandir here have put the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in a tight spot. According to observers and social activists, the state government as well as the SJTA has drawn flak from...
Bhubaneswar: The state government is committed to set up permanent bench of the High Court in Western and Southern Odisha. A Home department release issued to the press here Wednesday said the people were facing a lot of difficulties as several organisations in Western Odisha...
Bhubaneswar: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi brushed aside speculation of his possibility of contesting from Puri Lok Sabha constituency in 2019 as a “media creation”, senior BJP leader Pradip Purohit Wednesday claimed there is 90 per cent chance that the PM may contest...
Bhubaneswar: Biting cold persisted across the state with the mercury dipping below 10 degrees Celsius in at least 19 places Wednesday. Intense cold conditions are likely to grip the state for at least next four days under the influence of dry and cold wind blowing...
Bhubaneswar: The state government has sanctioned projects worth Rs 8,906 crore under Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) for four districts. The oversight authority OMBADC headed by justice AK Patnaik, has sanctioned the projects for four districts namely, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur, sources...
New Delhi: Experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) have called for replicating across the country a model project in Odisha that resulted in 85 per cent decline in average monthly malaria cases in the...
Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has initiated interlocking of mid-section level crossing (LC) gates in its jurisdiction. Recently, ECoR has eliminated all the unmanned level crossings in its jurisdiction. At present, ECoR has 538 LC gates in the mid-section out of total 739 manned...
Bhubaneswar: Cold wave conditions continued to prevail across the state Tuesday with the mercury falling down below 10 degree Celsius at 19 places. The situation, however, will improve slightly from Wednesday, local Met office sources said. According to Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre, Daringbadi was the coldest...
Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing of the state Crime Branch has registered 28 cases related to various financial frauds during 2018. This was revealed in EOW’s annual report released Tuesday. The 28 cases include five cases registered against chit fund firms, eight against real estate...
BHUBANESWAR: Shubhangi Dwivedi from Lucknow was crowned 18th KIIT Nanhipari - Little Miss India 2018. Yashika Singh of Delhi and Mira Singh of Amritsar were crowned first and second runners up respectively. The top three also received cash awards of Rs. 3 lakh, Rs. 1 lakh and Rs. 50,000 respectively,...
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