Ramakanta Biswas

Bhubaneswar: Minati Mishra, one of the most respected and revered Odissi dancer and Padma Shri awardee passed away at the age of 91 in Switzerland, family sources said on Monday. Mishra, who worked alongside first-generation...

Bhubaneswar: In order to provide postal services to people in left-wing extremism (LWE) – affected areas, the government has planned to open 30 more sub-post offices in undivided Koraput district. Various services like small saving,...

Bhubaneswar: The Lingaraj temple administration in Bhubaneswar has decided to impose a complete ban on consumption of tobacco products on the temple premises from January 15. Chewing of pan, gutkha and consumption of any narcotics...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly premises will become completely Wi-Fi enabled within the next 20 days, informed Speaker Surya Narayan Patro. Besides, the State assembly will become paperless as all document related works will be carried...

Dhenkanal: A suspected family dispute took a tragic turn after a man allegedly hacked his wife to death with an axe at Pangatira village under Parjang Police limits in Dhenkanal district in the wee hours...

Koraput: A junior engineer (JE) working with Borigumma Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) department reportedly went missing under mysterious circumstances on Monday. The JE has been identified as M Venkat Rao. According to sources,...

Bhubaneswar: Normal life has been severely affected across Odisha with the beginning of 24-hour all India strike called by 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) protesting hike in price of essential commodities, unemployment, “anti-people” policies of...

Malkangiri: A Maoist couple wanted in several violence-related incidents including the abduction of former Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna and carrying a cash reward of Rs 20 lakh on their heads were arrested by police....

Bhubaneswar: With most financial transactions getting digitized nowadays, as the number of users of Unified Payment Interface (UPI)-based applications like Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm continue to spike so is the cases of fraudulence in...

Bargarh: One of the girders of an under-construction bridge on Paikamal-Nuapada Biju Expressway in Padampur area in Bargarh district collapsed on Thursday. According to initial reports, the girder collapsed when the construction work was underway...

Rayagada: Students of Bhakurguda residential school in Rayagada district became ambassadors of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) after their dance performance was featured in the musical video of the United Nations agency. The agency shared...

Bhubaneswar: In an effort to make school children versed with computer programming languages, the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar today launched a training programme in its campus at Gothapatna on the outskirts of...

Sambalpur: Union minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday sparked a fresh controversy while addressing a public gathering in Odisha by questioning if our Hindu brothers & sisters in Pakistan were impotent & infertile that it led...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Congress on Sunday attacked Odisha government for proposing to conduct Socio-Economic Caste Enumeration of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and Other Backward Classes (SEBC/OBC) along with the 2021 general census and alleged that...

Bhubaneswar: A non-political organisation named Youth for Action comprising 5,000 youths from across 25 districts in Odisha was launched in Bhubaneswar today. The logo and website of the organisation was launched at a special function...

Bhubaneswar: The recent hooliganism in the busy market building area in the capital city has once again exposed the disturbing trend of involvement of minors in criminal activities. So far 30 people have been identified...

Bhubaneswar: A few days after Odisha School and Mass Education department decided to introduce extra classes system for academically weaker students in schools, the higher education department has also planned similar classes in colleges. State...

Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik-led State government continues to face criticism from the Opposition for proposing to conduct Socio-Economic Caste Enumeration of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and Other Backward Classes (SEBC/OBC) along with the 2021...

Bhubaneswar: People across Odisha continue to remain deprived of basic facilities, revealed reports submitted by secretaries of different departments. The reports underlined acute shortage of doctors in hospitals, lack of teachers in schools and deplorable...

Jharsuguda: Four railway protection force (RPF) personnel have been placed under suspension for their alleged involvement in loot of huge stocks of rice from a freight train in Jharsuguda district. RPF DG has suspended the...