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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has given Rs 20.34 crore in compensation to 2,116 SC/ST atrocity victims from June until now, a minister said in the Assembly Friday. In response to Congress MLA Sofia Firdous' query, Nityanada Gond, the minister for ST & SC Development, Minorities...

Bhubaneswar: The Nepalese student, who died by suicide at KIIT in February, had lodged a complaint of sexual harassment before the varsity authorities in March last year, Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj told the Odisha assembly Friday. Replying to a written question from Congress MLA...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD in Odisha Friday nominated two senior leaders to represent the party in the meeting of the joint action committee (JAC) on delimitation in Chennai. The Naveen Patnaik-led BJD in a statement said that former minister Sanjay Das Burma and former MP Amar...

New Delhi/Cuttack: Justice Harish Tandon was Friday appointed as the next chief justice of the Orissa High Court, the law ministry said. He is at present a judge of the the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court collegium had earlier this month recommended the elevation...

Bhubaneswar: MLAs of the opposition Congress over crimes against women in the state rocked the Odisha assembly Friday morning, forcing Speaker Surama Padhy to call an all-party meeting after multiple adjournments failed to normalise the situation. As soon as the House assembled for the Question...

Bhawanipatna: Despite efforts by the Central and state governments to provide safe drinking water to people in rural areas, tapped drinking water supply remains a dream for many households. While the BASUDHA (Buxi Jagabandhu Assured Drinking Water to all Habitation) scheme in Kalahandi remains largely...

Rourkela: Researchers from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela have developed an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled smart device to monitor the quality of ingredients in processed food. The colourimeter, developed in partnership with teams from the University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines, tracks...

Rourkela/New Delhi: Former Union Minister Dillip Ray Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish a new railway division at Rourkela and expedite the expansion of the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). Ray, who met Modi in New Delhi, raised three key developmental issues concerning Rourkela...

Bhawanipatna: A superintending engineer of the Bhawanipatna minor irrigation division has been suspended from his post on charge of tender fixing. The accused superintending engineer was identified as Jagannath Mallick, who is posted in the minor irrigation division office at Bhawanipatna. He has been accused...

Lahunipara: Police recovered the half-burnt body of a married woman near a canal near Raikalaposh village under Kuliposh panchayat and this police limits in Sundargarh district. The deceased was identified as Fulmani Munda, 30, wife of Turi Munda, 43. Police and a forensic team visited...