Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odia film Lahari, directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya and produced by Jhilik Bhattacharjee, received the national award for ‘Best Odia Film’ at the 72nd National Film Awards ceremony held at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat Tuesday. President Droupadi Murmu presented the prestigious honour to Jhilik and...

Bhubaneswar: Failure to file annual property statements online within the stipulated deadline cannot come in the way of school teachers being considered for promotion, the Orissa High Court has held, directing the state to accept their returns manually. The HC asked the state government to...

Bhubaneswar: Activists of the opposition BJD and Navnirman Yuva Chhatra Sangathan (NYCS) demonstrated near the Odisha assembly Tuesday, demanding the resignation of Odisha School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond over alleged large-scale errors in school textbooks. Though both groups raised the same issue, they...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly conducted only 13 minutes of business on the opening day of its Monsoon Session Tuesday as repeated disruptions by Opposition members led to multiple adjournments. The House functioned for two minutes before lunch and 11 minutes after 4 pm. Proceedings were...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 256 wild elephants died in Odisha between 2023-24 and 2025-26, including 13 killed by poachers, Forest Minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia informed the Assembly Tuesday. Replying to a written question from BJP MLA Durga Prasan Nayak, the minister said 32 persons had...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is examining the issue of providing reservation to OBCs and SEBCs in the upcoming panchayat elections, Panchayati Raj Minister Rabi Narayan Naik said in the assembly Tuesday. Replying to a question by senior BJD MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain on providing 27...

Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to visit Odisha October 27 and 28 and attend a mega eye screening camp in Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district October 27, Mayurbhanj MP Naba Charan Majhi said Tuesday. Murmu will return to New Delhi October 28, according to the...

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...