Metro

Bhubaneswar: There is currently no possibility of the system developing into a cyclone, but heavy rainfall could affect southern Odisha over the next few days, said Chief Secretary Anu Garg, while reviewing the preparedness of the low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal during a...

Bhubaneswar: Names of around 20 lakh electors have been deleted in Odisha after completion of the SIR of electoral rolls in the state, officials said Monday. Chief Electoral Officer R S Gopalan said the total number of electors in Odisha now stands at 3.16 crore,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government started distributing corrected school textbooks across the state Monday after incorporating necessary changes, sources said. Around 45,000 books were distributed today in Bhubaneswar, Kataka, Jatani, Salepur and Nischintakoili. The distribution includes Odia textbooks for classes II to VI and Urdu textbooks for...

Puri: The final electoral roll for Puri district under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 was published Monday, with 13,11,876 voters listed across six Assembly constituencies and 1,823 polling booths. District Collector and District Election Officer Dibyajyoti Parida published the final roll at a meeting...

Bhubaneswar: Five people were injured after a dispute over a social media live video escalated into a clash near a Ganesh Puja pandal in Ghatikia under Bharatpur police limits late Sunday night. Two rounds of blank firing were also reported during the confrontation. The incident...

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: As the students' agitation over errors in school textbooks gains momentum in Odisha, the CJP on Monday extended its support to the ongoing 'satyagraha' by the Navnirman Yuva Chhatra Sangathan (NYCS), which is demanding the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to receive heavy rainfall from Tuesday as a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal is expected to strengthen and intensify into a deep depression in the coming days, the Regional Centre of the India Meteorological Department said Monday. The weather...

Bhubaneswar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Saurav Das is in Bhubaneswar Monday to meet protesters and those on hunger strike demonstrating against alleged irregularities in school textbooks. Das visited a government primary school in BJB Nagar in Bhubaneswar as part of CJP’s “School Theek Karo”...

Bhubaneswar: The last rites of seven members of a Bhubaneswar family, who died after being swept away by a rain-swollen drain in Madhya Pradesh, were performed at Swargadwar in Puri early Monday, family members said. The mortal remains of the seven persons from MP's Gadhakana...