Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday urged citizens to take individual responsibility for keeping the state capital Bhubaneswar clean, saying the city can become the cleanest and most beautiful city in the country if everyone performs their responsibility properly. "This city belongs to...
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi Thursday and discussed issues related to the state's development. During the meeting, Kambhampati apprised the Prime Minister about the implementation of various Central schemes in Odisha and their progress, an...
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday demanded that all decisions taken at the meeting convened in New Delhi to resolve the long-standing Mahanadi water dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh be made public, questioning whether the meeting would lead to any concrete outcome. Addressing a...
Nagoya: India's Mansi Ahlawat lost her bronze medal bout to Mongolia's Altjin Togtokh in the women's 62kg event 2-5 at the Nagoya City Inae Sports Center Thursday. Meanwhile, Indian grappler Nitesh Siwach settled for a silver medal after losing the Greco-Roman 97kg final to Japan's...
Puri: Shree Jagannath Temple authorities in Puri have made special arrangements to ensure smooth 'darshan' for differently abled and elderly devotees at the 12th-century shrine, officials said Thursday. According to a statement by the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), a ramp and railing extending from...
Guwahati: Pacer Anshul Kamboj was drafted in Thursday as a replacement for injured Prasidh Krishna for the third and final ODI against the West Indies to be played in Mullanpur Saturday. A BCCI release attributed the sidelining of Prasidh to a left hamstring injury. In...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha leaders across the political spectrum showered praise on Indian pilot Smit Machchhar for thwarting his co-pilot's alleged attempt to crash a flydubai flight, with Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi saying that selfless sacrifice "reflects the timeless Bharatiya ethos of 'Seva Paramo Dharma'. In...
Bhubaneswar: Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty surface winds, with speeds reaching 30-40 kmph, are very likely at one or two places in eight districts of Odisha, Regional Centre of India Meteorological Department said Thursday. The affected districts are Baleshwar, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Kataka,...
Bhadrak: A 54-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted in Odisha's Bhadrak district over suspicion of practising witchcraft, police said Thursday. The incident took place September 25 in Banitia village in the Bhadrak Rural police station area, but the woman lodged a complaint six days later Wednesday....
Bhubaneswar: A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped at gunpoint by a masked man at her rented flat in Bhubaneswar, police said Thursday. The woman lodged a complaint at the Nayapalli police station, alleging that a man wearing a mask entered the apartment Wednesday night and...
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