Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Tuesday stepped up preparedness and deployed 33 Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams in vulnerable districts as a depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a deep depression and trigger heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in several...

Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four pilgrims, including seven women and some children, were injured, ten of them critically, when a bus carrying devotees from Hooghly in West Bengal rammed into another pilgrim bus on NH-16 near Dhamra Railway Overbridge in Bhadrak district early Sunday, police said. The accident...

Bhubaneswar: Monsoon Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly began Tuesday as scheduled, with the House opening its proceedings at 11 am. The seventh session of the 17th Assembly began with the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ and the national anthem after Speaker Surama Padhy took her...

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rain due to a depression lashed coastal and southern Odisha Tuesday, forcing the government to close schools, cancel employees' leaves and deploy teams in vulnerable areas to prepare for a possible calamity. With the weather department forecasting that the inclement weather would continue,...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: The seventh session of the 17th Odisha Legislative Assembly (Monsoon Session) begins Tuesday, with the Opposition gearing up to corner the government over the MMDR Amendment Act, flood management, school textbook errors, law and order, agrarian distress, and the trafficking of...

Bhubaneswar: CPI(M) Odisha State Committee will launch a statewide campaign against the proposed amendments to the mining law, while also raising concerns over flood rehabilitation, textbook shortages and livelihood issues. A two-day CPI(M) Odisha State Committee meeting here decided to launch a statewide campaign against...

RABINARAYAN JENA, OP Bhubaneswar: Around 78 private hospitals and nursing homes in the state capital are facing the threat of losing their empanelment under the Ayushman Bharat scheme over alleged land-use and building plan violations. The State Health Assurance Society (SHAS) issued showcause notices to...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will deploy more than 200 battery-operated vehicles across the City for door-to-door waste collection, an official said. The decision was taken at the 44th general council meeting of the BMC, chaired by Mayor Sulochana Das, at Ekamra Hall of...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has struck gas in a deepwater well off the eastern coast, with the discovery’s proximity to Odisha potentially allowing faster development if appraisal confirms commercial viability, the state-run explorer said. ONGC made the discovery September 18 at...

Bhubaneswar: A state-level protest by more than 500 medical and sales representatives was held in Bhubaneswar Monday over job security, service conditions and other employment-related demands. The protest was organised by the Odisha Sales Representatives Union (OSRU) at the call of the Federation of Medical...