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SUBRATA BEURA The recently concluded International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Keralam (IDSFFK) was in the news after the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) withheld permission to screen 31 films. IDSFFK is a major film festival in South Asia, and any form of...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), in collaboration with the Forest Department, has intensified its efforts to expand the green cover of the capital city by promoting urban forests, Miyawaki plantations, avenue plantations and greening of road medians. As part of the initiative, a new...

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths Wednesday arrested an R&B executive engineer after finding him in possession of disproportionate assets (DA) amounting to 309 per cent of his known sources of income. Arabinda Mohanty, executive engineer of the R&B Sub-Division at Betanati in Mayurbhanj district, was arrested along...

Bhubaneswar: The WWF EIACP Programme Centre, with support from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), launched a two-month Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) residential certificate course on ‘Nature Conservator cum Ecotourism Guide’ at the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM)...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Kataka: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 each on the Chief Secretary and seven officials for repeatedly failing to ensure representation in a case concerning alleged excess and illegal sand mining in Anugola district. The September...

PRASANJIT SAHU, OP Bhubaneswar: A Test Identification (TI) parade of accused Sridhar Panda, arrested in connection with Nayapalli rape case, was conducted at Jharpada Jail Wednesday, DCP Saravana Vivek M said. The DCP said the investigation would be completed at the earliest and the chargesheet...

Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik-led BJD Wednesday decided to stay away from the Odisha bandh called by INDIA bloc parties October 8 against the new mining law, errors in school textbooks and the SIR exercise, asserting that it would remain equidistant from the BJP-led NDA and...

Bhubaneswar: The future of maritime search and rescue (SAR) operations hinge on various aspects like advanced technological integration, real-time information sharing and seamless inter-agency synergy, Indian Coast Guard Director General Paramesh Sivamani said Wednesday. Sivamani chaired a meeting of the National Maritime Search and Rescue...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has directed all district collectors and Superintendents of Police to visit the state-run colleges and universities and extend all necessary support to ensure that student union elections are conducted peacefully and without disruption, officials said Wednesday. Chief Secretary Anu Garg has...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Wednesday transferred seven IAS officers, including the collectors of Nabarangpur and Nuapada districts. According to an official order, Nabarangpur collector Maheswar Swain has been posted as additional secretary to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. Anya Das, an IAS officer of the 2019...