Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: Floodwaters have inundated several rivers, including the Mahanadi, following incessant rainfall triggered by a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal. Kataka, Puri, Khordha and Jagatsinghpur districts have been particularly affected, while large parts of Kendrapada district are also under the impact of the...
Bhubaneswar: Seventy-four more coastal villages in Odisha were Monday declared "tsunami ready" under a UNESCO-IOC programme, taking the total number of such villages in the state to 100, officials said. The recognition was announced at a meeting of the National Tsunami Ready Board (NTRB) and...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government borrowed Rs 89,353 crore from different sources and repaid pending loans worth Rs 58,565 crore during the past two-and-a-half years, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi informed the assembly Monday. Replying to a question by BJD legislator Tusharkanti Behera, Majhi said his...
Bhubaneswar: Three school students of Bhubaneswar, who went missing on Sunday evening, were rescued from Jagatsinghpur district within 24 hours, a police officer said. The police traced them with the help of CCTV footage and rescued them on Monday. Two class IX students and a...
Bhubaneswar: The Naba Nirman Yuva Chhatra Sangathan, a student outfit, has demanded the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond over glaring factual errors in school textbooks and called a 12-hour Odisha bandh September 30. The organisation claimed that textbooks for Classes I...
New Delhi: Virat Kohli reached the 15,000-run mark in ODIs 74 innings faster than Sachin Tendulkar, but the milestone alone does not settle the debate over who has been the greater batter in the format. The comparison needs context, as the ODI landscape changed significantly...
Bhubaneswar: As many as 71,769 cases of crimes against women were registered at different police stations across Odisha between June 2024 and July 2026, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi informed the Assembly Monday. In a written reply to a question by Congress MLA Sofia Firdous,...
Bhubaneswar: About 15 percent of Odisha's sanctioned IAS posts are vacant, with 36 of the 248 sanctioned posts remaining unfilled, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said in a written reply in the Assembly Monday. The state currently has 212 IAS officers in service, of whom...
Paradip: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Monday rescued a distressed foreign chemical tanker after it developed an engine failure and rapid ballast tank flooding about 37 nautical miles east-southeast of Paradip in Odisha, an official said. The Belize-flagged MT Seagull 9, carrying 9,000 metric tonnes...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has directed all district Collectors to undertake a time-bound review of government land allotted for developmental and public welfare purposes and initiate action against those found misusing or unauthorisedly retaining such land. The Revenue & Disaster Management Department has asked Collectors...
India’s air-power shortcomings are becoming harder to ignore. Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, very publicly, flagging Pakistan’s collaboration with China...
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By Aakar Patel While Gandhi Jayanti is still fresh on our minds and the right to peaceful assembly is in...
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By Dilip Cherian A 10-officer reshuffle at the Additional Secretary level may look like routine housekeeping, but if you look...
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Lately, the Supreme Court’s intervention in high-profile cases does not necessarily arouse confidence and reassurance that wrongs may be righted....
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