News from Odisha

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday granted permission to the Lingaraj Temple Trust to conduct Shital Sasthi festival of Lord Lingaraj with limited number of servitors. 

With two major festival of Odia calendar- Savitri Brata and Raja- round the corner, garment traders in Odisha have urged the State government to ease the lockdown norms for a few hours a day to run their business for the festive season.

Under its impact, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack are going to record heavy downpour in the range of 8-12 mm/hour at midnight hours on June 12. The wind speed in the early morning hours on June 13 likely to be 37-55 kmph

Depositors duped by various fraudulent financial establishments will no longer have to make rounds of tehsil offices for submission of their claim applications as the Odisha government on Friday launched a new website to receive the complaints.

Due to this sharp rise in the rate of unemployment in the month of May, an estimate reveals that in the last month (May) a whopping over 10.09 lakh had no jobs at hand as against mere 2.76 lakh in April

The Odisha government has received two bids in response to the global e-tender it had floated for procurement of Covid-19 vaccine doses from global market. 

"General bed utilisation is around 39 % while beds having oxygen and ventilator facilities are around 60 % in the case of Covid patients. Still, the number of CC, DCSP, DDS have been increased in five-six places."

Congress MP from Koraput, Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, Jatani MLA Suresh Routray and Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) working president Pradeep Majhi demanded the immediate vaccination of 4.5 crore population of the State.

A patient tested positive for Covid-19 has gone missing from a hospital much to the dismay of his family members who are yet to find him despite searching from pillar to post over the last fortnight. 

In a nerve-chilling incident, a tribal couple managed to save their little child from the probable bite of a massive King Cobra inside their house after hour-long efforts.

A majority of these people may not have any identity card and are living in different Shelter For Urban Homeless (SUH) under the Corporation's jurisdiction.

Puri: Over 40 students of Talada Padhiari School in Edabansa village of Astaranga block showed sheer perseverance when they took a boat ride on Friday to reach their exam centre for appearing the Annual Matric Examination. Reason, tardy progress of Talada bridge construction has forced them to take the risky ride. Without any other option […]

Bhubaneswar: While the State Assembly will meet from February 4 to pass the Interim Budget for 2019-20, the Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) has threatened to go on an indefinite strike if the government fails to announce provisions in the budget for the Odisha farmers. Similar to the protests carried out in October-November last year, […]

Bhubaneswar: Despite several measures by the Commissionerate Police to minimise crimes in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, it was shocking to see that the crime rate in 2018 has increased by almost 5 per cent as compared to the triennial average (TA) of crimes reported in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The annual crime […]

Bhubaneswar: Patnagarh BJP MLA Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo today resigned from the Privilege Committee of Odisha Assembly citing that the move of the Committee to summon Managing Director and Co-founder of Odisha Television Ltd, Jagi Mangat Panda, was to harass her for political reasons. Singh Deo tendered his resignation from the Committee in a letter […]