Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has stepped up efforts to combat malnutrition and strengthen early childhood care, with the state government focusing on upgrading Anganwadi infrastructure, completing unfinished centres and expanding digital monitoring under the Odisha Nutrition Mission (ONM). The strategy was discussed at a high-level meeting on...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Excise Mobile Unit, in coordination with the Railway Protection Force (RPF), arrested two Uttar Pradesh residents and seized 30.220 kg of ganja during a narcotics check at Bhubaneswar Railway Station Sunday. The arrested persons were identified as Ajab Singh, 29, and Upendra...

Bhubaneswar: Chandrasekharpur police have cracked two house theft cases with the arrest of a domestic help and recovery of stolen gold and silver ornaments, valuables and cash, officials said Sunday. The cases were registered following complaints from residents of Housing Board Colony and Kanan Vihar...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: In a major breakthrough, the Tamil Nadu police have arrested the primary suspects, an Odia woman and her husband, behind the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a 38-year-old woman whose body parts were discovered inside a suitcase aboard a train earlier this month. The...

Bhubaneswar: State Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra Sunday attributed the rising sugar price to ethanol production in the country. Patra said the increase in sugar prices was being witnessed across the country and was not limited to the state. He said...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has extended the deadline by a week for farmers' registration to participate in paddy procurement for the kharif season, a minister said Sunday. The state government had set August 31 as the last day for farmers' registration. Now, it has been...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will launch a membership campaign September 1 to expand the state's cooperative footprint in the state, an official statement said Sunday. Through the membership drive 'Sambandha', the Cooperation Department aims to enrol at least one person from every...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' encourages the country's youth to contribute towards building a developed India. After listening to the programme, Majhi said the PM has been bringing the achievements and...

Kataka: Kataka-Barabati legislator Sofia Firdous is likely to contest the next Assembly election from the Odisha Janata Congress, according to her father and party president Mohammed Moquim. Moquim said Sunday that Firdous would contest the upcoming election from the OJC as a candidate for the...

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rain lashed several parts of Odisha, while a red alert for intense rainfall has been issued for three districts Sunday as a low-pressure system formed over the Bay of Bengal in the morning, weather department officials said. The low-pressure system over the northwest...