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Bhubaneswar: The enforcement wing of the Commissionerate of GST and Commercial Tax on Thursday busted a major fraud in which fake invoices to the tune of Rs 294 were generated by 11 dealers in Bhubaneswar to evade GST. Two persons- Pramod Sahu and Vikash Sarogi have been arrested on the charges of generating fake invoices […]

New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging Indians not to panic, but stay vigilant to keep the coronavirus at bay, Thursday saw India withdrawing into a shell and fortifying its walls against the virus. It also witnessed first coronavirus death in Karnataka. A 76-year-old man, who had returned to Karnataka from Saudi Arabia about […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when opposition parties have turned the heat on the Odisha government for parking Sri Jagannath Temple funds in Yes Bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday categorically stated that all depositors’ money is entirely safe in private banks. The clarification comes in the wake of media reports that some […]

Bhubaneswar: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will provide medical equipment worth Rs 1 crore to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar in order to strengthen the treatment facilities at the State’s premier hospital. Director of Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA), Baruda Venkateswara Rao informed about the development saying that the AAI […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 6,340 schools in Odisha with a strength of less than 20 students will soon be closed, a notification issued by the State School and Mass Education department over implementation guidelines for the policy of rationalisation and consolidation of schools has revealed. The notice stated that around 11,517 schools of the State […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Cabinet on Friday approved the Odisha Covid-19 Regulations 2020, a set of health advisory measures for immediate implementation at all level in the wake of Coronavirus pandemic across the globe. As per the directive, the State government has made it clear that ‘Empowered Officers’ – Director of Public Health, Director of Health […]

Bhubaneswar: They were strangers before they met by chance during a freak mishap at Bhubaneswar Railway Station. An RPF constable, who had saved the life of a soon-to-be-married woman from the jaws of death at Bhubaneswar railway station, became the special guest at her wedding. RPF constable Subrat Kumar Moharana recently attended the wedding of […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking cognizance of non-payment of pending holding taxes, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to go tough on such habitual defaulters. The civic body has decided to disconnect water and electricity supply of the defaulters who are yet to respond to notices shot to them to clear the pending holding taxes. In a letter […]

Berhampur: Stranded for nearly one and half months in a Coronavirus-hit cruise ship off Japan coast, Odia techie Shivasis Nayak finally returned to his hometown Berhampur post 14 days of quarantine period in Delhi. Speaking to OTV, Nayak said the survival conditions were tough on-board the cruise ship as the number of coronavirus positive cases […]

Bhubaneswar: When the novel Coronavirus, displaying no ‘Karuna’ is on infection spree globally, including India, here comes the COVID-19’s big  – somewhat positive- impact on the harassed common man on streets. The rate of inflation in the country is predicted to drop to mere 2 per cent by December 2020. From vegetables to eggs, fish […]

Rourkela: As Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world and countries like India are bracing up to fight the pandemic, screening of the infection is the most vital part of combating the infectious disease that has so far claimed more than 5000 lives globally. A research scholar in Rourkela has now claimed to have […]

Bhadrak: Bhadrak Rural Police on Saturday rescued at least 27 children, including 17 minor girls from a house at Jitanaga village. It is suspected that all the rescued children were to be engaged as workers in a company in Andhra Pradesh. Acting on a tip-off, the police team conducted a raid and rescued the children […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha government has declared the COVID-19 a State disaster, it seems the fight against the novel Coronavirus in State’s largest religious congregation place – Shri Jagannath Temple, one of the 4-Dhams in India- looks very listless. When the State has already invoked the Indian Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 and Section 10 of […]

Bhubaneswar: With the lethal novel Coronavirus winging faster spread in the country, and when WHO has asked to maintain a distance of 2-feet to avoid COVID-19 transmission, Country’s leading online catering service provider, Zomato, has announced some significant safety and hygiene measures to curb the spread of the pandemic disease. The founder of Zomato, Deepinder […]

Bhubaneswar: With Maharashtra recording a sharp 63 per cent rise in COVID-19 positive cases in a span of 24 hours, the rapid rise in the novel coronavirus count in this western State of the country holds a big threat to Odisha. The country’s largest commercial state is now emerging as the epicentre of COVID-19 cases. […]