Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday embarked on a one-day visit to poll-bound Jharkhand to seek votes for BJP candidates. Majhi will address two public meetings in Seraikela-Kharsawan and West Singhbhum districts, which have a large Odia-speaking population, sources said. The Odisha chief...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi attended an Indian Super League (ISL) match between Odisha FC and Mohun Bagan Super Giant at Kalinga Stadium here Sunday evening. He interacted with players during the line-up, extending his best wishes to both teams before kick-off. A...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) general manager Parmeshwar Funkwal Sunday conducted an inspection of the newly constructed rail line between Boudh and Purunakatak, to review progress in the ongoing Khurda Road-Bolangir rail line project. Funkwal checked the progress of track-laying engine-rolling and testing for...

Bhubaneswar: Despite assuring the Odisha government and Puri’s Gajapati Maharaja that it would not hold an untimely Rath Yatra outside India, ISKCON organised a ‘chariot parade’ in Houston November 9. The parade, featuring a replica of Lord Jagannath’s ‘Nandighosa’ chariot without the deities of Lord...

Bhubaneswar: Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia inaugurated the state-of-the art Exotic Primate Complex (EPC) at Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) here Sunday. The naturalistic enclosure complex is designed to house seven species of primates from around the world, including Cotton-top tamarin,...

New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has asked four states, including Odisha, and the Union Home Ministry to submit a detailed report on the status of the Gottikoya tribals, who were displaced from Chhattisgarh due to Maoist violence and are now reportedly living...

Bhubaneswar: Unidentified burglars broke into a house in Ganesh Vihar locality, under Infocity police limits, here in the wee hours of Sunday and decamped with gold ornaments worth Rs 21 lakh, police said. In the FIR lodged at the Infocity police station, the owner of...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday appealed to women to offer millet grains to Goddess Lakshmi on the occasion of the upcoming ‘Manabasa Gurubara’ festival while inaugurating the two-day long International Symposium on Shree Anna (millet) & Forgotten Foods (ISSFF) here. This move will...

Bhubaneswar: The 5th EMRS (Ekalavya Model Residential School) National Cultural and Literary Fest and Kala Utsav - 'UDBHAV' will be held in Bhubaneswar from Monday, an official statement said. This festival is being organised by the Department of STSC Development, Minorities and Backward Class Welfare...

Puri: A devotee and a Sri Jagannath Temple Police (JTP) personnel have filed FIRs against each other at Puri’s Singhadawar Police Station, a source said Sunday. The devotee alleged maltreatment and molestation by a JTP member, while the JTP personnel, Gupteswar Routray, accused the devotee’s...