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Bhubaneswar: Over two lakh candidates are appearing for the AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) MBBS entrance examination that began in 155 centres including Odisha on Saturday. The online examination (computer based test) is being conducted in two shifts per day (9 am to 12:30 pm and 3 pm to 6:30 pm today. The […]

Bhubaneswar: A total of 42,283 candidates have been allotted ranks in the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) 2018, the results of which were announced today. Candidates can download their rank card at www.ojee.nic.in and www.odishajee.com. Besides, the results are also available on Android app- OJEE2018. As per sources, 42,288 candidates had appeared for the OJEE […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major breakthrough, the officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Friday seized fake currency notes worth Rs 3 lakh from a passenger travelling in Kamakhya-Yesvantpur Express at Bhubaneswar railway station. Sources said, the fake currency was seized while being smuggled to Bangalore from Bangladesh. An accused identified as Simar has been […]

Bhubaneswar:  As many as 2000 private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres and patho labs across Odisha today downed their shutters in support of the 24-hour strike call given by the All Odisha Private Medical Establishment Forum (AOPMEF). The AOPMEF is demanding amendments in the Odisha Clinical Establishments Act, especially the one that requires the establishments to […]

Bhubaneswar: It seems that coastal Odisha is now on the radar of major political parties including BJP and BJD ahead of the 2019 elections as both parties are leaving no stones upturned to reach out to voters highlighting each other’s lacunae. Politics has already heated up in the State ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]

Bhubaneswar: Four days after busting a high-profile sex racket running at the H2O Spa centre in Bapuji Nagar area in Bhubaneswar, the Commissionerate Police today busted another prostitution racket running at a Spa centre in Nayapalli area here. Acting a tip-off, police raided the spa centre reportedly running from a rented house and rescued three […]

Bhubaneswar: Thunderstorm accompanied by hail and rain is likely in most parts of the State in next 24 hours, predicted the Regional Meteorological Centre on Thursday. Gusty surface wind speed will reach 45 km/hr to 65 km/hr during these hours, the forecast added. As high tides are expected, fishermen in the state have been advised […]

Bhubaneswar: While leaders from across the country offered their condolences on the demise of noted industrialist Bansidhar Panda, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and BJD leaders were further criticised today for not turning up to pay their last respects to the departed soul. In reply to a tweet of Bansidhar Panda’s son and MP Baijayant Panda […]

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the “Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)” supported scheme to provide mobile services at 4072 tower locations identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in inhabited uncovered areas affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) of 96 districts in ten States for Phase-ll […]

Bhubaneswar: The Integrated Test Range (ITR), the premier DRDO laboratory at Chandipur in Balasore district has been awarded the prestigious Silicon Trophy for the year 2016 as the best Technological laboratory of DRDO besides the “Agni Award for Excellence in Self Reliance” for the year 2017. ITR Director Binaya Kumar Das received the awards from […]

Bhubaneswar: There could be a ‘tactful understanding’ between the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Congress in Odisha to keep Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power, said Union Minister, Jual Oram in Bhubaneswar today. Oram expressed such apprehension taking into account the recent developments in Karnataka where the Congress and JDS joined hands to […]

Bhubaneswar: Odia girl Swarnalata Dalai of Jajpur district has won accolades for the State by scaling the world’s highest peak. The 20-year-old tribal girl of Kalinganagar area in Jajpur has successfully climbed the Mount Everest along with co-mountaineers Poonam and Sandeep Toliya under the prestigious Mount Everest Expedition organised by Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) […]

Puri: The Puri Srimandir administration has decided to install CCTVs at ‘Bhitara Katha’ -the last point of entry for devotees in the temple. The significant move comes in wake of the alleged assault on a tourist by two servitors inside the temple premises last week. Sharing more details, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Niti (ritual) […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when BJD Supremo Naveen Patnaik highlighted the major achievements of his government today after entering into the fifth year of his fourth term, the Bharatiya Janata Party leveled allegations against the ruling BJD citing as many as 36 instances of corruption of the state government in the past 18 years. BJP […]

Bolangir: It seems that Crime Branch is not leaving any stones unturned to secure conviction of Punjilal Meher, the mastermind of Patnagarh parcel bomb explosion that left two persons including newlywed Soumyasekhar Sahu dead in February. The owner and the staff of the concerned courier agency through which the killer parcel was sent, have identified […]