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Cuttack: As two children they were once abandoned by their families, but they have beaten all odds and started a new life in Spain after two couples from the European country adopted them from city-based orphanage Basundhara a few years ago. Recently, the duo—Laxmi and...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Sunday demanded publication of the Justice CR Pal Commission report, which scrutinised matters relating to establishment of high court benches in the western and southern parts of the state and which was submitted to the state government four...

New Delhi: Many senior bank officials who had dealt with loans given to liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines may be named as accused in a CBI charge sheet which is likely to be filed within a month, sources said. This would be first charge...

Bhubaneswar: The state government Friday said it had taken no decision to send back Royal Bengal tigress Sundari to Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh from where she was brought following reports that she had mauled a woman to death of Hatibari village in Angul....

Bhubaneswar: The state Congress Friday accused the BJD government of flouting reservation rules meant for marginalised sections and the differently-abled in its Biju Yuva Vahini scheme. The party said that while the government has planned to spend around Rs 150 crore per year under the...

New Delhi: Indian refiners will cut their monthly crude loadings from Iran for September and October by nearly half from earlier this year as New Delhi works to win waivers on the oil export sanctions Washington plans to reimpose on Tehran in November. India’s loadings...

Bhubaneswar4: After celebrating Teachers’ Day and ‘Ganesh Puja’ at Lower PMG here, the protesting block grant teachers also chose the dharna site to celebrate Nuakhai Friday. A protesting teacher said, “The festivals which we ought to have celebrated in our schools, colleges and homes, especially...

Puri: Contractual workers of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) engaged in Srimandir repair Friday launched a cease work agitation seeking job regularisation. The agitating workers also protested a move to engage a private firm to carry out the temple repair work. They alleged that...

Begunia: Around 50 dengue patients have been detected by the Health department in the Begunia block of Khurda district even though the department had launched an awareness drive to curb the disease. Although the Health department had been creating public awareness and providing treatment for...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 109 animals including 93 deer, six elephants and nine tigers have perished due to illegal poaching in the last three years. As per a written statement submitted by Forest and Environment Minister Bijayshree Routray, 238 elephants, two tigers, 14 leopards and...