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Bhubaneswar: As part of its continued efforts to deepen industrial partnerships and attract high-value investments, a high-level delegation of the state government, led by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, is scheduled to undertake a two-day investment outreach programme in New Delhi from August 7, official...

Bhubaneswar: A court Wednesday sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for killing his wife over dowry, an advocate said. Third Additional District and Sessions Judge Himansu Sekhar Mallick pronounced the verdict after examining the depositions of 11 witnesses and 11 documents. The...

Bhubaneswar: A special court in Kataka has granted bail to former director of the Directorate of Teacher Education and State Council of Educational Research and Training (TE & SCERT) Manoj Kumar Padhy, who was arrested by the Crime Branch in connection with the alleged school...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 840 schools from Odisha are among the 13,092 schools across the country selected for transformation under the PM SHRI (PM Schools for Rising India) scheme, Minister of State for Education Jayant Chaudhary told the Rajya Sabha Wednesday. In a written reply...

Bhubaneswar: Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), a deemed-to-be university, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kolkata-based Krishibandhu Crop Science Private Limited (KBC) to collaborate on research, development and extension activities in industrial biotechnology, with a focus on promoting sustainable agriculture, official sources said Wednesday. The...

Bhabanipatana: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was allegedly stabbed to death by unidentified assailants Wednesday evening in Kalahandi district, police said. The deceased was identified as Fakira Rana, husband of Snigdha Rana, the sarpanch of Domkarlakhunta village under M. Rampur police station limits. According...

Bhuban: A Class VIII student died after falling ill at a government school here in Dhenkanal district Wednesday, with doctors saying the exact cause of death will be known only after the postmortem report. The student, identified as 12-year-old Mangaraj Sathua Mohapatra, was studying at...

Kataka: A dispute between inmates of a hostel in Ravenshaw University and a deputy warden escalated into a political row with teachers and local Kataka Sadar MLA Prakash Sethi trading misconduct charges against each other. Earlier, inmates of the varsity's East Hostel had launched an...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD Wednesday opposed an alleged move to establish a nuclear power plant in Odisha and accused the state's BJP government of compromising with public safety for the sake of corporate interests. The BJD's opposition came days after a representative of a private company...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo Wednesday said the state aims for a transition from decades of conventional power generation to a leading hub for clean power, green fuels, and a low-carbon industry. Singh Deo was speaking at the 5th edition of E3:...