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Bhubaneswar: Deputy Commissioner of Police Anup Sahu has assured Lokanath Patnaik, a victim of police highhandedness, of stringent action against traffic personnel who had beaten him up Sunday. The assurance came when Patnaik met the DCP at his office Tuesday. Patnaik was assaulted by the...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning seven new drains to manage waterlogging in the city. The new drains would be constructed with an investment of over `9.45 crore. The tendering process for the drainage project is underway. The new drains will include construction of...

Bhubaneswar: The long drawn tussle between Jeypore MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati and Koraput MLA Krushna Chandra Sagaria of Congress ended after the intervention of senior leaders at a meeting here Monday. In the wake of the change of guard, the newly constituted Coordination Committee of Pradesh...

Puri: The Srimandir deities, Lord Jagannath and his siblings, were Monday evening placed at the Adapa Mandap after being taken inside the Gundicha temple, where they will stay for the next seven days till Bahuda (return car festival). According to Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA)...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will not be attending the crucial monsoon session of Parliament which begins July 18 and ends August 10. Arun Jaitley remains quarantined on doctors’ orders following a successful kidney transplant surgery that he underwent at the All India Institute...

New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has received proposals from various parts of the country to open 10 Sharia courts (Darul Qaza), out of which five have been approved and will be opened soon, board secretary Zafaryab Jilani said Sunday. The other...

Bhubaneswar: Residents of Dumduma and Jagamara area staged protest on the NH-5 stretch near Aignia square Monday afternoon over lynching of a youth by some villagers at Canal Bandha area near Pokhariput late Sunday evening. Around 300 protestors blocked the national highway, burnt tyres there...

Bhubaneswar: A week-long SAARC regional training on “Mass Breeding and Culture Technique of Catfishes” kicked off at the ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIFA), Bhubaneswar Monday. The training, jointly organised by the SAARC Agricultural Centre (SAC), Dhaka and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR),...

Puri: The Ratna Singhasan (golden throne) of Srimandir remains vacant for 28 days a year (except the Nabakalebara year). According to Naresh Chandra Dash, researcher on Jagannath culture, “The deities are taken from the golden throne for the grand bathing ritual (Snana Purnima) on the...

Puri: The controversy over the missing keys to the inner chamber of Srimandir Ratna Bhandar has once again hogged the limelight after The New York Times published a report on the issue Sunday. The report claimed that Jagannath temple in Puri has huge gold and...