Tag: Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: Stalemate continued in the Odisha Assembly for the sixth consecutive day on Thursday amid pandemonium over last week’s suicide attempt made by a BJP MLA in connection with the alleged mismanagement in paddy procurement in the State. Speaker Surya Narayan Patro adjourned the proceedings till 12 pm following noisy protests by members of the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sealed Vishal Mega Mart at Unit II market building for violating social distancing and other Covid-19 protocols. The civic body officials also collected…

Bhubaneswar: At least two persons were injured after unidentified miscreants hurled bomb in Azad Nagar area of Sunderpada under Air Field Police jurisdiction in the capital city on Thursday. As per reports, apart from hurling bomb in the area, the miscreants also attacked a youth with sharp weapon leaving him critically injured. Though the exact […]

Bhubaneswar: An 11-year-old boy narrowly escaped an abduction attempt by some miscreants in the Capital City on March 30 last month. The matter came to the fore after the parents of the minor boy submitted CCTV footage of the kidnapping incident at the Infocity Police Station on Thursday. As per reports, the boy, a resident […]

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, two labourers died while carrying out sewerage cleaning works at Tankapani Road area in the Capital City on Friday. Preliminary reports said that both the deceased were sanitary workers who died due to suffocation after inhaling poisonous gases. As per reports, the labourers who were engaged in manual scavenging fell […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Youth Congress activists came out all guns blazing against State Law Minister Pratap Jena over the Mahanga double murder case and clashed with the police in the Capital City on Friday. Demanding the immediate removal of Jena, the party workers took out a massive bike rally from Congress Bhawan and marched to ghearo […]

Bhubaneswar: The mesmerising dance forms and music presented by the versatile and talented artistes left everyone in awe in the day long International Performing Arts Festival(IPAF) which was held on a high note at Jaydev Bhawan in the Capital City on Saturday. IPAF Bhubaneswar witnessed many eminent artistes across the country enthralling audience with their […]

Bhubaneswar: The State unit of Odisha Congress has found itself in an embarrassing situation after a former leader accused the present Youth Congress President Smruti Lenka of sexually harassing a woman party worker. According to reports, former youth congress leader Nihar Behera accused Lenka of sexually harassing the woman worker on the pretest of elevating […]

Bhubaneswar: Riding on the success of ‘Mo School’ campaign, the State government today went a step further to connect global Odia alumni to their alma mater in Odisha by rolling out ‘Mo College’ campaign. The campaign aims at making the higher education eco-system more organic and innovative. According to a release by the State government, […]

Bhubaneswar: Following the detection of 23 Covid-19 positive cases in the campus, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) sealed Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB) in the Capital City on Monday. BMC authorities have sealed the entire campus in larger public interest with a view to contain the further spread of the virus. The campus will […]

Bhubaneswar: Fears of a second wave of Covid-19 gripped Odisha with a steady rise in the number of positive cases in the last couple of days in several districts across the State. The State reported 146 new positive cases in last 24 hours with Khordha registering the maximum 35 cases followed by Cuttack (25) and […]

Bhubaneswar: Amidst the surge of Covid-19 cases in the Twin City, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday issued fresh guidelines for the upcoming Holi and Dola Purnima festivals. Earlier, the Odisha government on March 19 had issued restrictions on celebration of all kinds of functions related to “Dola Purnima” and Holi Festivals. The stipulations/restrictions […]

Bhubaneswar: A servitor at the Lingaraj temple along with three of his family members have reportedly tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. As per preliminary reports, all them have been kept in isolation and already necessary contact tracing has reportedly begun as per protocol. The issue of a servitor testing positive for […]

Bhubaneswar: In a spine-chilling incident, a man allegedly inserted a liquor bottle into the private parts of his wife following her refusal to indulge in prostitution at Chandrasekharpur area in the Capital city, on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Chandan Acharya a native of Pattamundai in Kendrapara, has been arrested by the Chandrasekharpur police. According […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Pratap Sarangi has demanded allocation of special funds from the Centre for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Bhubaneswar in order to augment the infrastructure and facilities at the super specialty hospital in the State capital. Sarangi, who represents the Balasore Parliamentary constituency, called on Health Minister Harsh Vardhan […]