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Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court has asked the Odisha government and the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to explore the feasibility of holding a special examination for candidates who were genuinely prevented from appearing in the Odisha Civil Services (OCS) Main Examination, 2025, due to...

Bhubaneswar: A five-member delegation of the National Journalists Welfare Board met Odisha Governor Braj Mohan Ram at Lok Bhavan Thursday and urged him to take up the issue of a pension scheme for journalists with the state government. During the meeting, the delegation discussed various...

Bhubaneswar: The World Skill Centre (WSC), Bhubaneswar, has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence-Skills (CoE-Skills) by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), placing the Odisha-based institute among 19 institutions empanelled under the national framework. The Certificate of Recognition was presented to WSC...

Bhubaneswar: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata, has directed the Odisha Chief Secretary to personally review the implementation of measures to curb illegal sand mining across the state at least once every quarter, while ordering a series of stringent steps to strengthen...

Bhubaneswar: A 21-year-old man has been shot dead in Bhubaneswar, with police suspecting that a business rivalry could be the reason behind the killing. Eight people, including prime accused Bishnuprasad Samanataraya alias Pikun, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder. During preliminary investigation,...

Bhubaneswar/Phulbani: Five more bodies were recovered from a landslide-affected hilltop village in Odisha's Ganjam district Thursday, taking the toll there to seven, while six more people are still missing, an official said. These people were victims of Cyclone Arnab that hit the state October 28....

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday accused BJP MLA Saroj Padhi of disrupting flood relief distribution and threatening to kill a government official on duty, demanding an impartial investigation and strict legal action against the legislator if found guilty. Addressing a press conference at...

Bhubaneswar/Phulbani: Two more bodies were recovered from a landslide-affected hilltop village in Odisha's Ganjam district Thursday, taking the toll there to four while nine more people are still missing, an official said. The two decomposed bodies were found during the multi-agency search and rescue operation...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday demanded Rs 2,526 crore as central assistance over the impact of Cyclone Arnab and subsequent floods in three southern districts, a senior official said. The state government also sought special assistance of Rs 10,000 crore for a permanent solution to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Thursday effected a bureaucratic reshuffle, changing the portfolios of four senior IAS officers, a notification said. Bishnupada Sethi, an officer of the 1995 batch who serves as the chairman of the Odisha Forest Development Corporation alongside an additional charge as chief administrator...