Tag: Odisha

Kalahandi: Some fought back emotion; some others hugged with tears rolling down their eyes while others showered blessings on him and joined a procession on entire stretch of road outside Thuamul Rampur Community Health Centre (CHC) in Kalahandi district to bid farewell to their beloved doctor. Dr Abinash Rath who joined Thuamul Rampur CHC almost […]

Angul: Tears rolled down her parched cheeks when she described her life while summing it up as ‘pitiful’. This is the story of Champa Naik, a widowed woman from a poor family in Purunagarh village of Angul district who has been struggling with extreme hardship in the dusk of her life. Champa lost her son […]

Dhenkanal: An elderly woman lost vision in one of her eyes due to alleged medical negligence after undergoing surgery at Sarbeswar Memorial Eye Hospital situated near Kantanali Bypass in Dhenakanl district on the advice of two social workers. The matter came to the fore after the 89-year-old woman identified as Dhala Bewa of Badabilasahi village […]

Kendrapara: A headmaster of a government-run primary school in Rajnagar block of Odishas Kendrapara district was placed under suspension on Thursday for alleged irregularities in the mid-day meal scheme, an official said. Maheswar Pradhan, the head of Kushailo primary school, was found to have allegedly inflated the students’ attendance to misappropriate the noon meal ration, […]

Balasore/Nuapada: Summer is still a few days away, but the drinking water problems have returned to many villages across Odisha sparking resentment. Be it near a tube well or pond, the sight of long queues of women with pots on their head greets one in many places. While in some villages the problem is just […]

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh, is the best performing state in in terms of digitising land records, followed by Odisha, according to the NCAER Land Records and Services Index. Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu are the other states in the top five. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on Thursday released India’s first land […]

Bhubaneswar: The one-day surge in Covid-19 cases in Odisha registered a big jump on Monday when a total of 4,445 persons tested positive for the infection while four patients succumbed…

Bhubaneswar: With Japan government expressing interest to invest in Odisha’s steel sector, the Centre and state government on Thursday offered an exclusive Japanese Industrial Cluster & Township near here. Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday discussed prospects of Japanese investment for the development of an integrated steel cluster […]

Rourkela: How often do we see betel-juice stains on the walls of buildings, government offices and public areas? Livid at the sight of such stains on the walls of the building, the Rourkela Regional Transport Officer (RTO) has issued a strict directive banning use of pan masala, gutkha and tobacco products in office as well […]

Vishakhapatnam/Bhubaneswar: In a major haul, a consignment of 1, 638 kg of cannabis worth Rs 2.45 crore being illegally transported to Bhubaneswar from Vishakhapatnam in a goods carriage was seized and four persons were arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Vishakhapatnam on Wednesday. The identification of the arrested persons is yet to be […]

Bhubaneswar: University athletes from Odisha bagged gold medals in two events at the ongoing Khelo India University Games 2020 here on Thursday. Weightlifter Manoj Sahu and archers Sraban Kumar, Suryamani and Ranjit Naik bagged the team gold at the mega sporting extravaganza. Manoj Sahu, a student of Behrampur University won the gold medal in in […]

Bhubaneswar: In a step towards making Bhubaneswar the sports capital of India, Odisha government is all set to conduct the 25th All India Forest Sports Meet in Bhubaneswar. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate the five-day sports meet at 5.30 PM on March 3. As many as 2471 employees of forest departments from all States […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has announced that it will increase monthly stipend of Rs 1,200 for physically-challenged students of special schools to Rs 1,760. The enhanced stipend will be disbursed from April 1, 2020. A monthly assistance of Rs 1,200 to residential students will be enhanced to Rs 1,760 while the day scholars will get […]

Kendrapara: A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man known to her family in Kendrapara district, police said on Friday. The suspect has been detained for allegedly committing the crime on Thursday night, Inspector of Pattamundai police station Rakesh Tripathy said. Though no complaint has been lodged in this connection, the police launched an […]

Bhubaneswar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday raised the Delhi violence issue at the 24th Eastern Zonal Council (EZC) meeting in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. “At the beginning of the meeting, I said that I feel sad for what happened in Delhi. There is an urgent need to restore […]