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Sambalpur: Days after reports hit the headlines that 25 students of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) at Burla tested positive for COVID-19, additional chief secretary (Health) Pradipta Mohapatra on Tuesday said that the positive reports came due to faulty coronavirus testing kits. He informed that no students of the varsity are positive because […]

Bhubaneswar: This is no music to the ears of Odisha. It seems the skill development in the State is battling with serious problems. Odisha neither has scored big in employability nor in the availability of the skills in demand. The India Skills Report 2021 released recently has bared the chinks in the State’s Skill Development […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as more than 10 days have passed since a devastating fire broke out in the wilds of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR), India’s largest biosphere reserves in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, the State Forest Department is still to bring the situation under control. The raging flames continue to spread from one part to another devouring […]

Bhubaneswar: The Simlipal Reserve Forest in Odisha burning red for over a week has made the State’s fire management plan go up in smoke. The big howler here for the State is despite not in the top-10 states having the maximum vulnerability to forest fires, Odisha has the dubious distinction of topping the country in […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday reiterated his request to the Odisha government to implement reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government jobs and educational institutions, and for Socially Educationally Backward Classes (SEBCs) in educational institutions in the state. “I had written letters to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking reservations for OBCs […]

Bhubaneswar: The country’s vaccination war against novel coronavirus has entered a decisive stage. Very soon nearly half a dozen new range of vaccines will hit the market to lend depth to the ammunition of immunity against the COVID19 in the country. Speaking exclusively in the OTV’s 11th annual conclave Foresight, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan […]

Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday morning took Biban alias Bibekananda Biswal, the prime accused in the sensational 1999 Anjana Mishra gangrape case, to the crime spot to recreate the incident. A team of CBI and local police officials took Biban to the crime spot in Barang area under Chandaka Police Station […]

New Delhi/Cuttack: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of a petition filed by actor-turned BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty at the Patiala House Court In New Delhi seeking a divorce from his actress wife Varsha Priyadarshini to the family court in Cuttack. Anubhav had filed the divorce petition at the Patiala House Court on […]

Bhubaneswar: In the lines of mass fund collection drive (Nidhi Samarpan Abhiyan) for Ram Temple In Ayodhya, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged Puri King to launch and lead a similar kind of drive for the development of Lord Jagannath Temple in Puri. In a letter to Gajapati Dibya Singha Deb, Pradhan urged that […]

Bhubaneswar: Former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau had once very seriously said ‘The essential ingredient of politics is timing.’ Quirky it may sound but the germane Canadian strategy was today apparently seen getting germinated in the political soils of Odisha when BJD biggies during the celebration of Biju Jayanti showcased, in a big way, […]

Bhubaneswar: BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi on Saturday urged the State Government not to bulldoze and demolish heritage structures in the periphery of monuments during beautification drives across the State. “Many heritage structures have been demolished during the recently carried out heritage corridor development work. Conservation of heritage and development should go together within rules,” said […]

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a pick-up van driver was chased by a group of miscreants who hacked him to death with sharp weapons in broad day-light at the busy CRP square on Saturday. The ghastly street crime has nevertheless reaffirmed the notoriety Odisha’s capital city has earned as a crime capital of late, raising […]

Bhubaneswar: Half of Odisha will be going to feel the heat towards the end of the current month (March). As there will be no significant weather pattern over the north-west India, hot and dry winds will blow to Odisha from March 19 onwards, only to make the State hotter than the rest of India. As […]

Sambalpur: In a fresh twist to the Covid-19 test lapses at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Sambalpur, a private firm on Sunday claimed that the test kits supplied by it for detection of SARS-CoV2 were not defective. The Delhi-based kit manufacturing company, Oscar Medicare Pvt Ltd, performed live demo of the kits […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the world will be observing the International Women’s Day on March 8 with the theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world,” are the women who constitute nearly half of the population of Odisha are hale enough to lead the society? The statistics, however, graph a shocker for […]