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Bhubaneswar: The crime branch of Odisha Police Monday constituted multiple teams to probe various aspects of the large-scale errors detected in school textbooks for students of classes 1 to 8, officials said. The investigation will focus on the preparation, approval, processing, printing and publication of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday ordered a criminal investigation into the large-scale errors detected in the textbooks of students from class I to class VIII. Taking the incident seriously, the chief minister has asked the Director of State Council of Educational Research...

Bhubaneswar: The Higher Education Department Friday announced the results of the entrance examinations for admission to the two-year BEd, MEd and BHEd programmes for the 2026-27 academic session. Candidates who appeared for the examinations can now check their provisional results by logging into the SAMS...

Bhubaneswar: Women and Child Development (WCD) Department, Odisha, has invited online applications for the post of Anganwadi Helper. According to the notification, candidates who have passed Class XII (Plus II) with Odia as a subject or possess an equivalent qualification are eligible to apply for...

Bhubaneswar: Directorate of Higher Secondary Education (DHSE), Odisha, Wednesday released the Phase-I merit list for Plus II e-admissions for the 2026-27 academic session. A total of 4,61,325 students applied for admission, of whom 4,29,219 were selected in the first phase, taking the selection rate to...

New Delhi: All but two textbooks for classes I to IX developed as per the new curriculum are now available, according to NCERT officials, who said the two pending ones will be released by next month. Part 2 of the class 9 social science and...

New Delhi: Enrolment in government schools fell by nearly 86 lakh between 2023-24 and 2025-26 while private unaided recognised schools added more than 88 lakh students during the same period, according to the UDISE 2025-26 report released by the Ministry of Education. UDISE+ (Unified District...

By Arindam Ganguly, OP Bhubaneswar: Odisha has retained its ‘Prachesta-2’ grade in the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 for 2025–26, released by the Union Ministry of Education, reflecting steady performance in school education while underscoring the need to improve learning outcomes. The state scored 651.5...

Redmond (Washington): Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1 per cent of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business. The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganization designed to...

New Delhi: National Testing Agency (NTA) Monday issued an important update regarding the NEET UG 2026 fee refund process, stating that only 8,29,510 candidates have so far updated or confirmed their bank account details on the official portal. The agency cautioned that eligible candidates who...