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Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) on Tuesday said a 810 MW captive power plant at its Angul steel plant has been inaugurated by the company's Chairperson Emeritus Savitri Jindal

World Bank is likely to fund the development of higher education sector in Odisha

Unidentified armed dacoits allegedly looted Rs 9.81 lakhs from a regional bank at Kamarda about 55-km from here on Tuesday, police said

Cuttack: Revenge would be on top of Chennai Super Kings’ mind when they lock horns with a dominant Kings XI Punjab in what promises to be a mouth-watering clash of the seventh Indian Premier League at the Barabati Stadium, here on Wednesday. It was Punjab which had scuttled Chennai’s plans of a flying start in […]

Islamabad: The WHO today slapped international travel restrictions on Pakistan, Cameroon and Syria over the countries’ failure to control the spread of the deadly polio virus, just a month after India did the same. According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) restrictions, it will be mandatory for all residents and long-term visitors (over 4 weeks) […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped money laundering charges against former Minister of State in the Coal Ministry Dasari Narayana Rao and Congress MP Naveen Jindal in connection with its probe in the Coal blocks allocation case. The agency, which has registered an FIR under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), taking […]

Mumbai: Actress-turned-singer Priyanka Chopra says she would love to do Hindi playback singing in her own films. “I do plan to do that in my next few films. I would love to do playback singing. All my singles are in English and I would love to sing in Hindi as well. We are trying to […]

Thirteen more godowns to store agriculture produce will be set up in three southern Odisha districts of Ganjam.......

Berhampur: Steps are being taken to undertake massive plantation in areas affected by Cyclone Phailin in Odisha’s Ganjam district under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The programme would be carried out through different agencies following the Election Commission (EC) relaxing the model code of conduct, Ganjam district Collector Prem Chandra Chaudhary said. Earlier, […]

With the arrest of two persons, the police today claimed to have busted a spurious health drink manufacturing racket in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. The racket, thriving on manufacturing fake glucose-based beverages, was active in the Derabish and Pattamundai areas, the police said. Acting on a tip-off, raids were conducted, and spurious products of a popular.

Controversial former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, who has been living in exile after being slapped with a life ban,.....

Revenge would be on top of Chennai Super Kings' mind when they lock horns with a dominant Kings XI Punjab ......

Coming down heavily on the Sahara Group for "systematically" frustrating all orders on refund of over Rs. 20,000.....

Cuttack: As part of a desperate damage control mechanism, the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha today announced that fresh mark sheets of this year?s matriculates would be uploaded in its official website within seven days after rechecking and re-addition of the marks. The Board however, did not clarify whether the answer sheets of the students […]

Bhubaneswar: Alleging violation of Model Code of Conduct by the Union Cabinet for clearing a proposal to set up Polavaram Project Authority on May 1, the Odisha unit of Samajwadi Party today sought the Election Commission’s intervention in the matter. “The Union Cabinet’s clearance of a proposal for formation of Polavaram Project Authority violets the […]