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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has increased the dearness allowance (DA) of employees working in state public sector undertakings (PSUs) by 2 percentage points, benefiting eligible employees with retrospective effect from January 1, 2026. The General Administration and Public Enterprises department said in an order issued...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-Kataka commissionerate of police has barred personnel deployed at vital installations, including the state secretariat, Lingaraj temple and Orissa High Court, from sharing photographs and videos on social media while on duty, officials said. In an order, Police Commissioner S Dev Datta Singh said...

Bhubaneswar: BJD chief Naveen Patnaik Sunday urged Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to convene a special session of the Assembly to pass a resolution seeking repeal of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2026. Patnaik, who had written to Majhi on...

Kendrapada: Police have arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly poisoning his 24-year-old wife to death in Odisha's Kendrapada district, an official said Sunday. The incident took place at Karanga village within Marshaghai police station limits Friday night, inspector-in-charge Tapan Kumar Nayak said. The deceased, Subhashree...

Nagoya: Driven by Elavenil Valarivan's individual brilliance, India opened their Asian Games medal account with a couple of silvers in shooting, while locking an unexpected podium finish in Mixed Martial Arts and making an authoritative push towards a second successive women's cricket gold in Nagoya...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Sunday questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "sanskar" (values) over his alleged mockery of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying basic courtesy should not be reduced to political theatrics. Majhi made the remarks in a post on X while...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD's youth and student wings Sunday announced a two-day Assembly gherao from September 22 over errors in school textbooks for Classes I to VIII, demanding the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond. Biju Yuva Janata Dal president Chinmay Sahu and...

Nagoya: India launched their Asian Games men’s hockey title defence in emphatic fashion, decimating Indonesia 13-1 in their opening Pool A encounter Sunday. Eight different goal-scorers were on target for the Indian team, headlined by Dilpreet Singh's four-goal haul, as India put on a clinical...

Bhubaneswar: A man allegedly beat his wife to death over a domestic dispute and then "died by suicide" by hanging himself in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, police said. The incident took place on Saturday night in Dadaraghati village under Parjang police limits in the district. The...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has suspended a doctor of Brahmapur circle jail for allegedly facilitating a murder-accused's conversation with a witness from prison, officials said Sunday. Susanta Kumar Panigrahi, deployed as a special psychiatrist at Brahmapur circle jail, was suspended with immediate effect, as per...