Ramakanta Biswas

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday issued guidelines for effective control of COVID-19, which will be effective from April 1, 2021, and remain in force upto April 30, 2021. Keeping in...

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced the results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020. The successful candidates will now have to appear for the Personality Test (Interview) for selection to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday emphasised on awareness, enhanced surveillance and testing while reviewing Covid-19 situation in the State. Holding the review meeting with Collectors of all districts, superintendents of police (SPs)...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday reduced the number of persons allowed to attend marriage functions to 200 from the earlier 500 while slashing funeral gatherings to 50. The organisers of these occasions will have...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to introduce MEMU train between Bhubaneswar-Keonjhar and Angul-Puri. While the service between Bhubaneswar-Keonjhar will commence on March 30, Angul-Puri MEMU train will start running from April 5....

Bhubaneswar: The body of a youth was recovered from a hotel room under mysterious circumstances in Sailashree Vihar area of Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. As per reports, the police broke open the room of the hotel...

Rourkela: Barely four days after the 18th convocation of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, which was attended by President Ram Nath Kovind, three students of the institute have tested positive for coronavirus. Sundergarh Collector...

Bhubaneswar: The youth wing of Congress on Friday organised Yuva Akrosh Samavesh protesting large-scale unemployment in Odisha and the rise in fuel prices. OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik, AICC secretary Rudra Raju, State youth Congress president...

Bhubaneswar: While moving an adjournment motion on unemployment and fuel price rise issues in the Odisha Assembly, the Opposition today alleged that the money spent by the government for skill development has gone waste in...

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Jatata Party (BJP) on Friday picked Ashrit Pattanayak as the party candidate for the upcoming by-election to Pipili assembly constituency in Puri district. The BJP nominee had lost the 2019 poll by...

Bhubaneswar: The 108 emergency ambulance service, which is regarded as the lifeline in the healthcare system, often hogs the headlines due to its alleged failure to provide timely service to patients during emergency. However, it...

Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the 1999 sensational Anjana Mishra gang rape incident is likely to file chargesheet in the case soon. A two-member team of the central agency led by the...

Pipili: Putting all speculations to rest, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) picked Rudra Pratap Maharathy as the party candidate for the upcoming by-election to Pipili assembly constituency in Puri district. Chief Minister and BJD...

Salepur: A man committed suicide at Naiguan village under Mahanga block of Cuttack district after police allegedly dragged his name into a kidnapping case and harassed him. Kalakar Sahu hanged himself to a tree at...

Sambalpur: The cyber police of Sambalpur cracked a major online fraud worth Rs 26.50 lakh involving fraudulent face mask supply offer and arrested a person from New Delhi. Multiple raids by a team of officials...

Bhubaneswar: Three players from Odisha have been selected in the India squad for Tri- Nation Blind T-20 Cricket Tournament to be played in Bangladesh in April. The players are Kalia Pradhan, Mohammed Jafar Iqbal  and...

Titilagarh/Nayagarh: Two persons lost their lives while over 30 others sustained injuries in separate bus accidents in Bolangir and Nayagarh district on Saturday. A bus overturned near Sindhekela under Turukbhata police limits in Titilagarh, killing...

Bhubaneswar: Heat wave conditions continue to prevail across the State throwing lives out of gear even as 14 places in Odisha recorded temperature above 40 degree Celsius today. According to the Bhubaneswar Regional Meteorological Centre,...

Bhubaneswar: Teachers above the age of 45 years working in various private and government schools in Bhubaneswar will receive the Covid-19 vaccine soon, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation administration (BMC) informed on Tuesday. The decision to inoculate...

Bhawanipatna: A Special Vigilance Court on Tuesday sentenced a clerk to seven years of imprisonment and slapped a whopping penalty of Rs 28.57 lakh after convicting him in a disproportionate assets case. Pradeep Kumar Sahu,...