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Bhubaneswar: Four Left parties in Odisha Friday demanded immediate dismissal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and restoration of the voting rights of people whose names have been "wrongly" excluded during the SIR of electoral rolls. In a joint statement, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) Liberation and...

Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four girl students in Odisha became pregnant while staying in hostels of residential schools run by a state government department during the last two years, a minister informed the Assembly Friday. In a written reply to a query of Congress legislator Tara Prasad Bahinipati,...

Bhubaneswar: 2015-batch IPS officer Dr Saravana Vivek M Friday took charge as the new Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Bhubaneswar. Vivek was serving as Brahmapur SP before being appointed DCP September 22 in a four-officer IPS reshuffle. He replaces Jagmohan Meena, whose resignation was accepted...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Friday alleged that the safety of tourists in Odisha has become a matter of concern, with incidents of harassment and assault being reported from tourist destinations at regular intervals during the two-and-a-half-year tenure of the BJP government. In...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress Friday attempted to gherao the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) here as part of the party's nationwide protest demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar after a newspaper report claimed disquiet within the poll panel over the SIR of electoral...

Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik Friday blamed BJP MPs from Odisha for the passage of the amended mines law in Parliament, and asked the Chief Minister to pause its implementation as the legislation infringes the state's constitutional rights and would stymie its progress. The party...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance officials Friday apprehended a Junior Revenue Assistant (JRA) of the Sub-Collector's Office, Jajpur, while allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 from an applicant for processing a land purchase permission file. The accused was identified as Prasanna Kumar Sahani, Junior...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Friday suspended two senior officers after they remained in jail for more than 48 hours following their arrest in separate cases, officials said. The suspension of Arun Kumar Biswal, additional secretary in the Commerce and Transport Department, and Sujit Kumar Raula,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday said the state government will provide Rs 125 crore in financial assistance for the Rs 452-crore Integrated Power Electronics project being taken up in collaboration with IIT Bhubaneswar. In a post on X, Majhi said the project...

Bhubaneswar: The deadlock over the amended MMDR Act continued in the Odisha Assembly for the fourth consecutive day Friday, with BJD and Congress members staging protests in the well of the House and forcing Deputy Speaker Bhabani Shankar Bhoi to adjourn the proceedings till 4...