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Bhubaneswar: With an objective to transform SCB Medical College and Hospital into a world-class institution, Odisha government on Saturday announced to begin eviction drive for the developmental project from January 27. Cuttack District Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani today informed that the eviction drive will be launched from Monday and over 300 families likely to be […]

Bhubaneswar:  In the last three years, the caving in of roof of a building under construction at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here is the fifth such successive lethal collapse in Odisha. In this mishap, a life was lost and another injured person is still under treatment at the Capital Hospital here. What’s big about […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Eminent litterateur from Odisha, Manoj Das has been conferred Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India. The Government of India today announced the names of eight Padma Vibhushan awards, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri awardees. Recognised as the one of the foremost bilingual writer in both […]

Bhubaneswar: The 71st Republic Day was celebrated with patriotic fervour across Odisha on Sunday. Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal unfurled the Tricolour and took salute of the parade at the State-level parade held at Mahatma Gandhi Marg in Bhubaneswar. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also attended the State-level Republic Day celebrations in the Capital city. This was […]

Bhubaneswar:  As the nation celebrated its 71st Republic Day on Sunday, with a grandeur display of the whole might of Indian heritage, culture and military strides, the rolling out of Rukuna Rath tableau from Odisha on the majestic Rajpath in the national capital has brought a paradigm shift in tableau shows. As per governance observers, […]

Bhubaneswar: With a new strain of Coronavirus, the virus that causes common cold, acute respiratory infections like MERS & SARS, having taken a lethal grip on China and it being further spread to many southeast Asian nations like Malaysia, Thailand, Korea etc, the Union Health Ministry has alerted all states to take preventive action against […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) today confirmed bird flu strain in the samples which it had sent to Bhopal for laboratory tests. As per reports, some chickens were recently found dead inside the OUAT farm following which blood samples of the dead chickens were sent to Bhopal for testing. “We received the […]

Bhubaneswar: A good news for the consumers.  Onions can no more give buyers a teary eye, nor the potato will be too hot to handle in 2020. The 2019-20 horticultural year’s first advance estimates predict a three-year high onion production in country in the farm year 2019-20 (June – May). The country saw a production […]

Bhubaneswar: Daily direct flight operations from Bhubaneshwar to Varanasi and vice versa will commence from January 31, 2020, Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) Director VV Rao informed on Tuesday. Alliance Air has deployed its 70-seater ATR 72 600 aircraft for the flight operations which will depart from Bhubaneshwar at 12.15 pm and arrive in Varanasi […]

Bhubaneswar: Panicked over the misguided protests, Odisha government was today seen giving a carte blanche to the illegal immigrants residing in the State to dwell so without fear. In a far reaching decision, during the enumeration exercise for the National Population Register (NPR) in Odisha, enumerators in the State will drop the sub section of […]

Ganjam: In a tragic incident, 8 persons were killed and over 40 got injured after a bus skidded off a bridge near Palukhola in Taptapani Ghat of the district. The injured have been rushed to Digapahandi and Berhampur Hospital. Patapur Police and fire services personnel are engaged in rescue operation. As per reports, the ill-fated […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Union Cabinet on Friday having vetted the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2020, India has joined a select group of 67 countries across the world where the upper gestation limit for medical terminated pregnancy is 24 weeks. At present the length of pregnancy termination period is restricted to 20 weeks under […]

Bhubaneswar: The untimely Rath Yatra organised by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on the occasion of Basant Panchami in Mumbai on Thursday sparked a major controversy with Puri Srimandir authorities and Jagannath culture experts in Odisha opposing such arbitrary conduct of the festival. The idols of deities- Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra were […]

Phulbani: Sparking Novel Coronavirus scare in Odisha, a medical student of Phulbani on Friday complained of suffering from cold and cough after returning home from China on January 11 keeping authorities on toes. Suspecting infection, the medical student who pursues MBBS in China wrote a letter to Kandhamal Collector and the Chief District Medical Officer […]

Bhubaneswar: It seems no ‘Taali’ (clap) for the ‘Thali’ (plate) in Odisha. The State tops the entire eastern region with its costliest vegetarian and non-vegetarian Thali. The result is a daily wager has to shell more in Odisha to arrange for two thalis for his/her family of five (unit size of a family taken by […]