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Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD president Naveen Patnaik Saturday asked the state government to declare fresh dates for the Combined Police Service Examination which was cancelled in the wake of a paper leak in 2025. The leader of the opposition in the state assembly also ridiculed the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government's Higher Education Department Saturday signed MoUs with three organisations to strengthen skill development and digital learning, officials said. The agreements were signed with Gujarat-based CSRBOX, Telangana's Naandi Foundation and the Odisha Knowledge Corporation Ltd (OKCL). The department also launched the 'AI Course...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Saturday renamed the 'Biju Setu Yojana' as the 'Setu Bandhan Yojana' and approved its continuation for another five years from 2026-27 to 2030-31. The Rural Development Department issued a formal notification today announcing both the name change and the extension of the...

Bhubaneswar: Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj and Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan Saturday met protesting teachers in Bhubaneswar and assured them that the government would soon take a decision on their long-pending demands. Harichandan told the teachers that the government had to examine and interpret the...

Bhadrak: A woman’s body was exhumed two days after her death and brought to Bhadrak district headquarters hospital Saturday for a post-mortem examination after her family suspected that she and her husband may have died of snakebite, sources said. Pramila Barik of Tiadi Sahi in...

New Delhi: The Indian Super League (ISL) 2026-27 season will begin October 10 and run until next May, with the competition returning to a traditional home-and-away format under a new club-led structure. The upcoming campaign will feature 163 matches over eight months, with 13 teams...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday announced that his government would fill up 45,000 vacant teaching posts over the next three years. Addressing students at Secondary Board High School in Kataka on the occasion of National Teachers' Day, the CM asked the pupils...

Nabarangpur: For most teachers, reaching school is a routine part of the job. But for two teachers in Nabarangpur district, it involves a daily journey fraught with risk across the vast waters of the Indravati reservoir in a country boat, followed by long walks to...

SUBHAKANTA NAYAK, OP Hatadihi: A government-aided high school in Kendujhar district is functioning with a single teacher, who is teaching seven subjects, handling administrative duties and also conducting physical education classes amid an acute shortage of teachers. The Shalania High School in Hatadihi block, established...

Nandapur/Koraput: In a first, Koraput police arrested three farmers while they were allegedly tending cannabis plants in a 10-acre forest area near Disariguda and Lenziguda villages under Padua police station, officials said Friday. Addressing a press conference at the Koraput police headquarters Friday, Superintendent of...