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Bhubaneswar: A day after arresting the accused in the sensational murder of a five-year-old girl at Jadupur village in Nayagarh in July this year, SIT chief Arun Bothra on Tuesday said that the killer had raped the girl after strangulating her to death. Addressing a press conference at the Commissionerate Police headquarters to reveal the […]

Puri: The Lord Jagannath Temple in Puri reopened from today after more than nine months. The Srimandir was closed since March 20 owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and subsequent nationwide lockdown. Only the servitors and their families will be allowed darshan today and the next two days. The residents of Puri town will get […]

Puri: As Srimandir – the abode of the Mahaprabhu Jagannath – reopens after a nine-month shutdown, the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri on Wednesday issued the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to be followed by servitors and devotees coming to catch a glimpse of the Supreme Lord and His siblings. Special arrangements and guidelines […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid growing concern over the detection of a more contagious strain of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom, a man, who has recently flown in from the European country, has been identified in Bhubaneswar. He has been asked to stay in home quarantine, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Prem Chandra Choudhury informed. The UK returnee […]

Bhubaneswar: A 34-year-old man, who recently returned from the United Kingdom, has been tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. According to the information shared by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), the man who reached Bhubaneswar from UK on December 18 tested positive for the virus at a private laboratory. The civic body added that the […]

Bhubaneswar: As Odisha slowly moves towards the peak winter, cold wave conditions have intensified too with the mercury plummeting to below 10 degrees Celsius in the interior regions of the State. Light frost is expected at some areas of Phulbani district in next few days where night temperature has seen a significant drop over the […]

Bhubaneswar: The swab samples a 34-year-old man, who tested positive for COVID-19 following his return from the United Kingdom (UK) on December 18, has been sent to a laboratory in Pune for genome sequencing. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner, Prem Chandra Chaudhary on Thursday said that genome sequencing becomes imperative to ascertain if the […]

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha becoming the eleventh State in the country where a UK returnee had tested Covid-19 positive till Wednesday, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked the Airport Authority officials here to furnish the number of returnees from UK who had landed in the State during the last 30 days (before December 23). Informed […]

Bhubaneswar: A lethal pandemic this year has, for sure, dampened the true Christmas joy among the worshippers to some extent, but the festive fervour remains the same on the solemn occasion. The uncertain times everyone has gone through in the past few months has forced majority to adapt to new normal keeping in view the […]

Bhubaneswar: A four-year-old child, who had recently returned to Bhubaneswar from the United Kingdom (UK) has tested positive for COVID-19, official sources said on Friday. As per reports, the girl along with her parents had returned to Odisha from UK on December 20. Though the COVID-19 reports of the girl’s parents stated negative, she has […]

Bhubaneswar: The elevation of senior IAS officer Suresh Chandra Mahapatra to the hot seat of Chief Secretary (CS) of Odisha has no such drama unlike last year (August 2019), when State government appointed Asit Tripathy as the new CS bypassing the then senior most IAS officer Gagan Dhal, whose retirement was due on January 2020. […]

Bhubaneswar: True to his penchant for delivering one-liners to the party rank and file on every foundation day since 2015, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik’s 2020 one-liner is ‘Fight for Women Reservation (or say empowerment)’. With the urban polls round the corner, he exhorted the BJD cadres to make this fight of BJD […]

Bhubaneswar: After almost nine months, Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar reopened today. Initially, the family members of the servitors have been allowed to have darshan of the deity till December 31, while the devotees will be allowed from January 6, 2021. A day before the entry of devotees into the 11th century shrine, Fire Services personnel […]

Bhubaneswar: International Odia Hockey player Namita Toppo was on Sunday honoured with the 28th prestigious Ekalabya Puraskar for the year 2020 for her outstanding performance in the national and international level. She received a cash award of Rs. 5 lakh along with a citation at a low key ceremony held here in strict adherence to […]

Bhubaneswar: Winter has set in, and parts of Odisha continue to remain under a blanket of fog in early hours of the day and late evenings, throwing normal life out of gear. Night temperature in interior areas of the State have dipped below normal. As per the forecast of IMD’s regional meteorological centre in Bhubaneswar, […]