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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance Department registered 202 criminal cases and arrested 212 government employees in 2025, a senior official said Wednesday. Listing the department's performance, Vigilance Director Y K Jethwa said cases were registered against 53 Class-I officers, including one IAS officer, 36 engineers, 17 forest...

Bhubaneswar: Senior IAS officer Anu Garg Wednesday evening took charge as first woman Chief Secretary of Odisha. Garg took charge from outgoing Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja, who retired from service Wednesday. She was also the first woman development commissioner (DC) of the state, appointed in...

Puri: The Jagannath temple authorities in Odisha's Puri Wednesday tendered an apology to the public and stopped the sale of calendars with a picture of the sibling deities in wrong positions on the 'Ratna Singhasan' in the 12th-century shrine. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA)...

Bhubaneswar: AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, has successfully conducted its first-ever liver transplant, marking a major milestone for the premier medical institute, informed Dr Ashutosh Biswas, Executive Director of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. Addressing the press Wednesday, Professor Biswas expressed immense satisfaction over the achievement. He informed that the donor...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Union Cabinet Wednesday approved the widening and strengthening of NH-326 in Odisha, upgrading the existing two-lane stretch to a two-lane highway with paved shoulder from 68.600 km to 311.700 km under the EPC mode. According to an official statement, the total capital cost...

Chennai: The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Workers' Rights Retrieval Kazhagam on Wednesday strongly condemned the "brutal attack" on a migrant worker from Odisha in Tamil Nadu's Tiruttani, blaming the DMK government for what it described as the growing menace of drugs and...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to take suo motu cognisance of the brutal assault on a 20-year-old youth from Odisha in Tiruttani, describing the incident as a serious violation of human rights...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance Department Wednesday arrested an additional tahasildar and panchayat executive officer (PEO) for allegedly possessing disproportionate assets (DA) to their known sources of income. Jitendra Kumar Panda, additional tahasildar of Baranga in Cuttack district, and Jitendra Kumar Jena, PEO of Bancho GP in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Wednesday extended till March the enforcement of the “No PUCC, No Fuel” mandate, giving vehicle owners more time to obtain a valid Pollution Under Control Certificate. Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena said the decision was taken in view of public convenience and...

Bhubaneswar: As 2025 comes to an end, Odisha witnessed a year of hope and distress, from security and industrial gains to tragedies such as the self-immolation of a college student, a stampede during the Puri Rath Yatra, and controversy over the hike in salaries and...