Bhubaneswar: A hunt was underway for a woman in Bhubaneswar who employed three people to hurl bombs at her house and fire a few rounds to get an arms licence by showing a threat to her life, police said Tuesday. The three people involved in...
A shocking incident has emerged from war-torn Sudan, where a 36-year-old Indian citizen, Adarsh Behera, a resident of Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, has been kidnapped by a militia group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s Al Fashir. Sudan has been engulfed in a civil...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday hit back at Leader of Opposition and former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over his allegations of betrayal by the BJP-led state government, saying the people of Nuapada and women associated with Mission Shakti would give a befitting...
Bhubaneswar: In a special initiative to mark the 150th anniversary of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’, students across Odisha will come together to sing the song November 7. The Department of Odia Language and Literature has written to the Department of School and Mass Education...
Puri/Berhampur: East Coast Railway (ECoR) will operate passenger special trains between Berhampur and Puri for three days starting Tuesday to manage the heavy rush of devotees travelling to Puri for the auspicious ‘Kartika Purnima’ festival and the 'Boita Bandana' rituals. According to ECoR sources, these...
Bhubaneswar: World-renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder and Life President of The Art of Living Foundation and Sri Sri University, will undertake a five-day visit to Odisha from November 6 to 10. The state government has accorded him the status of...
Bhubaneswar: The Khurda Road Division of East Coast Railway (ECoR) has once again emerged as the top-performing division in overall traffic handling, achieving an impressive 183 million tonnes of freight movement up to October 2025. The division handled 101 million tonnes of loading and 82...
Bhubaneswar: Aspirants of the Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Specialists exam staged a protest in front of the OSSC office here Monday, expressing deep concern over the prolonged delay in the recruitment process, which has remained pending since April 2025. In...
Bhubaneswar: In a pioneering effort, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar has initiated research into the toxicological effects of cycad plants in Odisha, following alarming findings of the neurotoxin BMAA ( -N-methylamino-L-alanine) in local cycad species. This comes as certain communities continue ancestral consumption of cycad products, such as ‘pitha’,...
Bhubaneswar: In a strongly-worded letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the Odisha State Government, the youth-led organisation Youth United for Sustainable Environment has raised serious concerns over unregulated construction, tree felling, borewell digging, and plastic waste dumping within the...
Tensions between the US and Venezuela have reached a seemingly critical level over what the US administration ostensibly calls its...
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Despite the newfound bonhomie between China and India in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war, China is...
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In its latest annual review, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assigned a ‘C’ grade to India’s national accounts statistics...
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Last month, along with Pakistan and Iraq, India was elected to the UN Human Rights Council from Asia. The UNHRC...
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