Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday issued a formal notification regarding 15 percent reservation in medical and engineering colleges for government school students. “The State Government do hereby direct that 15% of seats in Medical and Engineering Colleges of the State shall be reserved for the students who have passed the 10th Board Examination under […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore Das on Tuesday made fresh proposal to Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to set up the second All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the State at Sundergarh. Das suggested that the existing infrastructures of a medical college and hospital at Sundergarh can be used for the […]
Bhubaneswar: Amid rising fuel prices, skyrocketing rates of edible oils have dealt a double shock to the consumers in Odisha. The situation has forced the State government to come under intense criticism of the Opposition political parties. According to sources, price of the kitchen essential has become dearer by 60 to 70 per cent in […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health Department on Friday drew attention of the Centre to augment supply of vaccines to the State to meet daily target of 2 lakh doses. Health department ACS PK Mohapatra requested the Union government to supply at least 15 days vaccine requirement in advance to the State for uninterrupted vaccination drive. The State […]
Bhubaneswar: The State Assembly of Odisha on Tuesday passed a resolution proposing reservation for government school students in higher educational institutes in the State. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had introduced the resolution for 15 per cent reservation for State-run school students in the engineering and medical courses in the State. The CM’s proposal came in […]
Cuttack: Four new novel-Coronavirus cases were reported from another private educational institution in the city. As per information received from Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Health Officer Dr. Satyabrata Mohapatra, the concerned private college reported first Covid-19 case on Sunday. The CMC authorities carried out contact tracing on persons who might have come in touch with […]
Bhubaneswar: With much of humanity locked behind closed doors for much of the year 2020 thereby increasing the dependence of people on cyberspace, the crimes pertaining to the virtual community also witnessed a sharp rise in the year. In Odisha, cyber crime related incidents saw a spike of around 23.6 per cent between 2019 and […]
Dhenkanal: At least two persons died while over 15 took ill after partaking during a feast held to mark the topping-out ceremony of a house. The shocking incident was reported from Bedhapal village under Kamakhyanagar police limits in Dhenkanal on Thursday. Several labourers working at the construction site had consumed food during the feast and […]
Bhubaneswar: The Chief Electoral Officer of Odisha, Sushil Kumar Lohani on Wednesday made a slew of announcements for the upcoming byelection to the Pipili Assembly constituency in the State slated to be held on April 17. Addressing a press conference, Lohani said the number of booths have been increased this year from 271 to 348 […]
Dhenkanal: Failure is the first step towards success and 65-year-old man Trilochan Naik from Odisha’s Dhenkanal had to take 42 steps to clear Matric exams. Naik who recently cleared Bachelor of Laws is a true embodiment of grit and determination. He has proved that one should not say that one will never do something, because […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha School and Mass Education department on Tuesday issued a formal circular informing that all students from standard 1 to 8 will be promoted to the next class without any exam for the academic session 2020-21. The government in the notification has however announced a major relief for the students from the new […]
Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha will conduct the Odisha Teachers Eligibility Test (OTET) on April 9. The exam will be held in two sittings- first session from 8 AM to 10: 30 AM while the second sitting from 12 noon to 2: 30 PM. Candidates who had applied to appear for the test […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP in-charge D Purandeswari on Tuesday fired on all cylinders stating that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik should issue an apology for cheating people of the State over various issues. Launching an all-out attack, Purandeswari said Naveen should apologise before the public of Odisha as he has remained absent from the State Assembly proceedings […]
Bhubaneswar: In an all-out attack against the Odisha government, a delegation of BJP MPs from Odisha led by Union Minister of Petroleum and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday accused the ruling-BJD of misleading the farmers on issues of paddy procurement. Pradhan, who led the team from the State and met the Union Consumer Affairs, Food […]
Balasore: A person sustained critical injury when a retired professor opened fire at him near Gadagadia Square in the district on Saturday. The injured has been identified as Anand Singh. He has been shifted to the SCB Medical College & Hospital at Cuttack in a critical condition. According to reports, the accused identified as Laxman […]
Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a BJP legislator in the Odisha Assembly attempted to end his life alleging the State government’s failure in resolving various issues related to the agrarian distress in the State like mismanagement at mandis, irregularities in paddy procurement, including the token system, on Friday. BJP MLA from Deogarh, Subash Chandra Panigrahi […]
Bhubaneswar: The United Forum of Bank Unions has decided to go on a two-day strike from March 15 against the central government’s decision in the last parliamentary session to privatise the banking sector. As per reports, 30,000 employees from 5,500 different branches from Odisha are going to take part in the stir. Bank staff will […]
Bhubaneswar: The National Security Guard (NSG) will conduct reconnaissance of Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri, as a part of its security inspection in the pilgrim town on March 18. A five-member team of the NSG comprising two officers and two personnel will conduct the mock drill along with State police officers at the 12th-century shrine. […]
Cuttack: A running ceiling fan snapped and fell on a female patient inside the surgery ward of the Cuttack SCB Medical College and Hospital today morning. The shocking incident which injured the woman critically triggered panic among the fellow patients and their attendants. As per sources, the woman, who is a resident of Jajpur, was […]
Paralakhemundi: In a shocking incident, bodies of a couple were found lying a pool of blood in a closed room at Ariba village under Gurandi police limits here in Gajapati district today. The deceased couple identified as Sibal Dileswari (21) and Taluru Srinu (28) were in a relationship for quite some time. As the family […]
Rourkela: From garments to home decors and even toys for children, this tribal ‘Haat’ at Pokrabahal village near the Steel City sells everything for just Rs 5 per piece. Trying to shun the so called freebies culture that the poor of Odisha have been made accustomed to, some professors from the National Institute of Technology […]
Bhubaneswar: With wildfire engulfing a large chunk of forest area in the Similipal Tiger Reserve for the past several days, noted personalities from the State on Tuesday sought the attention of the central and State governments to take urgent action to curb the blaze from further destroying the reserve. Union PNG and Steel Minister Dharmendra […]
Bhubaneswar: Be it the construction of barrages over Mahanadi by Chhattisgarh government or negligence and the lack of vision by Odisha government, the direct effect of a dry riverbed during the non-monsoon season has threatened livelihood of lakhs of people in 15 districts of Odisha. Two pictures of Mahanadi, one at Kalma in Chhattisgarh and […]
Bhubaneswar: Terming the revised school timings as a wrong decision of Odisha Mass Education Department, Congress MLA Santosh Singh Saluja on Sunday urged the State government to close the school before 11:30 AM every day in order to ensure the safety of students and teachers from the scourge of impending heatwave. The development comes a […]
Sundergarh: A government notification for compulsory retirement seems to have cost dear for an ailing school peon in the district. Gangadhar Koudi, a peon at Ujjalpur Girls’ High School in the district who was undergoing treatment at a hospital, allegedly died days after the District Education Officer (DEO) issued notification for his compulsory retirement. Family […]
Bhubaneswar: The Centre has accepted the request of the Odisha government and allowed 183 private hospitals empanelled under the Biju Swastya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) as vaccination sites for inoculation of elderly persons starting March 1. Informing about the development, Additional Chief Secretary (health) Pradipta Mohapatra has directed the district Collectors, Chief District Medical and Public […]
Bhubaneswar: Even as the fear of resurgence of Covid-19 sending some states in the country to go on lockdown mode once again, the Odisha government on Thursday withdrew the expenditure rationalisation measures imposed last year in the wake of economic downturn due to the pandemic. It is believed that the decision has been taken to […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is preparing a database of senior citizens and people aged above 45 years of age and suffering from comorbidities who will undergo inoculation from March 1 in the next round of COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, chief of the Directorate of Medical Education & Training (DMET) CBK Mohanty said on Thursday. Mohanty said that […]
Bhadrak: In yet another major success for the State police, an acid attacker from Bhadrak who had been elusive for the cops in the last 19 years has finally landed in the police net. Dhusuri Police on Wednesday arrested a man named Subash Behera on charges of attacking his neighbour with acid around 19 years […]
Bhubaneswar: Amid the full-fledged Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare professionals and frontline workers in Odisha, doctors practicing under Homeopathy and Ayurveda medical systems in the State have accused the State government of showing step-motherly treatment towards them in the ongoing vaccination drive. Hundreds of AYUSH doctors in Khordha, Puri and Nayagarh district have alleged that even […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Lokayukta has given clean chit to senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi in connection with the allegation of high profile corruption in Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (OMFED) in 2015. The inquiry reports in the case confirmed that no financial loss was caused to OMFED, the anti-corruption body noted in its letter. […]
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Crores of Odias will have their eyes fixed tomorrow as the State government locks its horns with its Andhra counterpart over the escalating border dispute pertaining to Kotia region in Koraput district. Close on the heels of the Andhra Pradesh government filing an affidavit in the apex court citing that it has been […]
Bhubaneswar: In the underneath of securing countrywide recognition for superb Covid management by Odisha government, the glaring dissatisfaction of thousands of healthcare professionals who played an important role in the fightback against the pandemic seems to be playing down the accolades. Healthcare professionals took to streets once again on Thursday to protest the government’s move […]
Puri: Devotion and determination have no limits. The ultimate test of devotion is how one overcomes the obstacles on the way of realising the goal. Such a display of devotion and faith was played out on the National Highway No 316 when two visually challenged friends, who are ardent devotees of Lord Jagannath, walked from […]
Bhubaneswar: If everything goes well as per plans, the Class-I students in government-run schools in Odisha will learn English from the next academic session. The School and Mass Education department has mulled to introduce the new subject for the class-I students. However, the course will be introduced in the centre of excellence schools in initial […]
Bhubaneswar: A day after BJD spokesperson Shreemayee Mishra alleged that the National Monuments Authority (NMA) and the ASI are trying to restrain the developmental drive in the Ekamra Kshetra, the State unit of BJP on Thursday counter-attacked Odisha government saying that it is instead demeaning the rich heritage and culture of the State. Addressing a […]
Bhubaneswar: The IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre has informed that the minimum temperature in most parts of the State is likely to witness a gradual rise in the next few days. Met Centre Director HR Biswas on Thursday said that due to rising tendency in minimum temperature (night temperature), mercury is likely to rise by 3 […]
Bhubaneswar: After groping in dark for days to ascertain the identity of the woman, whose headless body was recovered along Bharatpur-Chandaka Road near Dasapur village on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on February 4, Commissionerate Police on Thursday claimed major breakthrough in the ‘blind case’ by arresting two accused in the gruesome murder case. Police Commissioner […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Wednesday knocked the doors of Supreme Court seeking contempt of court proceedings against Andhra Pradesh government over the Kotia border dispute. The State government’s move comes in the wake of the announcement by Andhra Pradesh government for holding panchayat polls in disputed Kotia region of Koraput. The government has prayed before […]
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approved three six lane projects in the State of Odisha. Gadkari took to the Twitter to inform about the nod to road projects on Wednesday. The road projects approved by the Transport ministry which come under Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic corridor include Dhanara-Hatibena […]