Tag: Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: People from all walks of life soaked in festive fervour as Odisha celebrated Christmas amidst carols, greetings and prayers. Festive spirit gripped several parts of the State including the twin cities Cuttack & Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Kandhamal, and Sambalpur as people turned up in huge numbers at cathedrals and churches to offer prayers and participate […]

Bhubaneswar: Dense foggy conditions continue to throw normal life out of gear in coastal and interior parts of the State. Regional meteorologilcal department has issued dense fog alert for as many as 12 districts of the State. A thick blanket of fog was witnessed shrouding several parts of the state including the Twin-City Bhubaneswar and […]

Bhubaneswar: As hockey fever pitches sky high with the buildup to the much-awaited Men’s Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium here later this month, the hosts India looks all pumped up to claim the biggest silverware in the game at its home ground. In an exclusive chit chat, OTV caught up with the head […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the much-awaited Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, residents of the capital city will soon be able to enjoy a pollution-free public bicycle ride. As per sources, a total of 2000 bicycles ordered for public bicycle sharing (PBS) project have started arriving in the city. What’s unique about the bicycle is that the […]

Bhubaneswar: With tension prevailing at Raghunathnagar village on the outskirts of the city, the Commissionerate Police today deployed massive police force to prevent any untoward incident. According to sources, as many as five platoons of police force have been deployed in the area to control the tension from flaring up further. Earlier on Monday night, […]

Bhubaneswar: The health condition of the six-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her relative (also a minor) here on Tuesday, continues to remain critical and an eight-member team of doctors is monitoring her, authorities of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack informed today. Emergency Officer of the medical, Bhubanananda Moharana informed that the […]

Bhubaneswar: One candidate died and as many as four others were taken ill while undergoing physical efficiency test (PET) during recruitment drives for police constables at different places in Odisha today. Sources said one Susant Nayak of Biswanathpur village in Kalahandi district suddenly fell unconscious while undertaking a PET during police constable recruitment drive in […]

This may look like a busy vegetable market, but it is not. It is loot happening on road near Palasuni area of Bhubaneswar. A truck carrying vegetables met with an accident and its entire load spilled onto the road. Spotting a chance, passersby got to work and started filling up their bags and sacks with the vegetables. The visuals also show a couple of people wearing khaki clothes among others engaged in this raid.

A 12-year-old girl was rescued from the house of a retired Collector from IRC Village, Bhubaneswar on Monday where she was allegedly engaged as a domestic help. 

The stars of the business world, who descended on Bhubaneswar for the second edition of the Make in Odisha conclave, must have been quite impressed with what they saw in the Smart City: freshly coated roads, smartly dressed traffic personnel, the swanky hotels, the glitzy shopping arcades and, last but not the least, the hi-tech […]

One can only pity Puri SP Dr. Sarthak Sarangi. The poor man is taking all the flak for a decision which he, left to himself, would perhaps never have taken. He would have known that the decision to seal the IMFA hangar at the Biju Patnaik airport and three helicopters belonging to the company on […]

Laxmidhar is distraught. The man from Tigiria, who looks after his family of five with the paan-cum-tea shop he runs below the under-construction Lingaraj Vihar flyover in Bhubaneswar, is about to be squeezed out of his place. “Where shall we go? Please do something for us. Sir,” pleads Laxmidhar, not ready to believe that there […]

The ‘Smart City’ had never seen anything like it before. Marooned people being rescued by fire and ODRAF personnel; bikes, cars and even buses with passengers floating in water bang in the middle of busy roads; people having to move upstairs after inundation of the ground floor and going without electricity, food and drinking water […]

When in trouble, tug at Odia pride. That was exactly what the president of the contractors’ association Prabhat Das was trying to do when he laid the blame squarely on the alleged love for non Odia contractors among officials and engineers of the Works department for the mishap at the Bomikhal overbridge last night that […]

Does faith have a place in a modern, science-driven society? Does science have answers to all the questions that confront man? When does faith degenerate into superstition? And where does one draw the line between the two? And on what basis? All these questions – and many more – gnawed at this columnist’s mind while […]