Ramakanta Biswas

Bhubaneswar: Army aspirants from Odisha and other states who landed in Bhubaneswar to appear for a recruitment examination spent the night on footpath under the open sky due to unavailability of any accommodation facilities. According...

Cuttack: Hundreds of candidates on Monday intensified their protest in front of the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) office here alleging multiple errors in the question papers of Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) examination. This...

Keonjhar: A brief spell of rain on Sunday exposed the awful condition of Keonjhar district headquarters hospital (DHH), despite marathon makeover put up overnight by authorities in view of the visit of State 5T secretary...

Puri: Clicking selfie with a murder accused cost dearly to the inspector-in-charge of Chandrabhaga Marine Police Station, Bulu Munda as he was suspended on Tuesday after the photograph went viral on social media. Earlier, Mundu...

Bhubaneswar: The Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) lost another inmate with the death of a white Tiger ‘Subhranshu’ on Tuesday morning. According to Nandankanan deputy director Jayant Kumar Das, Subhranshu died at 10.15 AM today. The...

Bhubaneswar: The officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) today seized 80,000 sticks of cigarettes worth Rs 12 lakh from two passengers at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA). According to DRI officials, they received...

Bhubaneswar/Delhi: In what could come as a good news for railway passengers, the Indian Railways today started daily Sewa Express train service between Bhubaneswar and Nayagarh Town. Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the train...

Khurda: A 15-year-old boy, who has been missing from Nirakarpur area in Khurda district for the last 13 days, was allegedly sold off by his relatives for Rs 4,000. The incident came to light after...

Balasore: In a major crackdown on drugs trading, Excise sleuths seized 1 kg brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore from Mill Badi area of Station Bazaar area under Jaleswar police limits in Balasore district and...

Bhubaneswar: Alleging that he was being ignored by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior leader Damodar Rout today resigned from the primary membership of the saffron party. In his resignation letter sent to BJP state...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar railway station witnessed some uproarious scenes on Tuesday night after some candidates, who had come to the capital city to appear for the army recruitment examination, pulled the emergency chain of Puri-New Delhi...

Cuttack: More than a week after the man who jumped into Kathajodi river in front of his wife and minor son over suspected marital discord, his body was found in Devi River near Rahamba under...

Bhubaneswar: In a major relief for visitors, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has directed different establishments such as commercial buildings, shopping malls, multiplexes, hospitals, apartments and housing projects not to collect fees for off-street parking...

Cuttack: The health condition of Kalia, one of the separated conjoined twins who was critical few days after discharge from Delhi AIIMS last month, is showing further signs of improvement as he is doing quite...

Bhubaneswar: Overnight refurbishments undertaken at government hospitals in the State in view of State 5T secretary VK Pandian’s visit have turned out to be mere eyewash as reality check at many District Headquarters Hospitals have...

Cuttack: In a major crackdown on illegal firecracker manufacturing units ahead of Diwali, police seized huge cache of explosives and crackers worth lakhs from Trilochanpur and Mahajanpur villages under Jagatpur police limits in Cuttack. Acting...

Sambalpur: The cotton fabrics produced by the inmates of Sambalpur circle jail here has received ‘Handloom Mark’ certificate from the Ministry of Textiles. While the inmates produce cotton towels, bed sheets, handkerchiefs and other products,...

Bolangir: A clerk of the district labour office in Bolangir has been placed under suspension after he was caught on camera while demanding and accepting bribe from a person for issuing labour licence challan. The...

Mayurbhanj: A video purportedly showing the principal and accountant of Anchalika Degree Mahavidyalaya at Gopabandhu Nagar in Mayurbhanj district manhandling a student has gone viral. The video which was reportedly shot in the principal’s chamber...

Bhubaneswar: Politics continues to take centre stage over the death of Haridaspur lady panchayat executive officer (PEO) in-charge Smitarani Biswal with Congress leader Tara Prasad Bahinipati today accusing both BJP and BJD of shielding the...