Metro

Bhubaneswar: Puri's titular king Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb wrote to ISKCON, accusing it of hurting the sentiments of devotees by organising Lord Jagannath's Snan Yatra and Rath Yatra on dates that are not in accordance with scriptures. In a letter addressed to Shree Madhusevita Dasa...

Bhubaneswar: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will inaugurate two new train services from Odisha Monday -- the Brahmapur-Surat (Udhna) Amrit Bharat Express and the Puri-Koraput Express, officials said. The inaugural ceremonies, to be held at Puri and Brahmapur, will also be attended by Odisha Chief Minister...

Bhubaneswar: A 22-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly circulating an AI-generated morphed video containing “obscene and defamatory” content targeting Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on social media, police said. Biswajit Sahu, a resident of Jagatpur in Cuttack district, was arrested in connection with...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Monsoon activity intensified across India Sunday, with heavy rain disrupting flight operations in Mumbai, triggering weather alerts in Kerala, Odisha and Jharkhand, and bringing widespread downpour to Delhi. Mumbai took the hardest hit as heavy overnight rain lashed the city, forcing the suspension...

Bhubaneswar: A day after a woman police official was found hanging at her official residence, the Odisha Police Officers' Association Sunday demanded a high-level inquiry into her death. The body of Beauty Mohanty, the inspector-in-charge of Chauliaganj police station in Cuttack, was found in her...

Bhubaneswar: Names of more than 20 lakh people were deleted from the voter lists following the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision in Odisha as the Election Commission published the draft electoral rolls Sunday. Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R S Gopalan said the...

Bhubaneswar: Sambit Patra, Member of Parliament from the Puri constituency, Sunday said his WhatsApp account had been hacked and warned people not to trust any messages or requests for money sent from his number. In a post on X, the Bharatiya Janata Party's national spokesperson...

Bhubaneswar: A well-marked low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression Sunday, prompting authorities to place all districts in Odisha on high alert as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next few days. Heavy rain...

Bhubaneswar: The Regional Centre of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for three districts in Odisha as a well-marked low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-West Bengal coast intensified Sunday, bringing widespread rainfall across the state....

Bhubaneswar: The state has intensified efforts to safeguard land belonging to Lord Jagannath by fast-tracking the correction of land records, with the Khordha district administration completing the Record of Rights (RoR) correction for over 4,713 acres of the temple’s land. Official sources said Saturday that,...