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Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), in a move to strengthen the City’s cleanliness drive under the Swachh Survekshan campaign, launched a new initiative  Wednesday to enhance door-to-door waste collection. Beginning with this effort, three-wheeled sanitation trolleys have been introduced to ensure garbage collection from narrow...

Bhubaneswar: Police have detained six Bangladeshi women in Bhubaneswar for allegedly staying in India without valid documents, following an input shared by Military Intelligence, official sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, the women were detained during an operation conducted Tuesday in the city. Preliminary...

Bhala Chandra Mohanty is a prominent industrialist and the Managing Director of Oriclean Private Limited. Since founding the company in 1990, he has transformed a small-scale unit in Cuttack into a multi-crore manufacturing powerhouse. Under his leadership, Oriclean has become a critical strategic partner for...

Bhubaneswar:  A retired accounts officer killed his wife with a kitchen knife and surrendered before police Wednesday, officials said. The deceased has been identified as Priyambada Sarangi (54), and the accused is her 62-year-old husband, Debraj Sarangi. The incident took place in Swasti Nagar here...

Bhubaneswar: In a significant development, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra has resigned from his post as party’s parliamentary leader in the Upper House. According to reports, he has sent his resignation to party president and former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday launched 36 industrial projects worth Rs 40,811 crore, which are expected to generate 59,000 jobs, officials said. Of the 36 projects, Majhi inaugurated 11 industrial units and laid foundation stones for 25 others in the presence of...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police have invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against a suspected cattle smuggler currently in judicial custody, officials said Wednesday. The accused, Sakil Khan of Tigiria police station area in Cuttack district, was arrested in February, they said. At least 10...

Puri: The inventory and verification of ornaments of the Ratna Bhandar at the Jagannath Temple began Monday, with a special team entering the shrine. The process marks the second phase of the inventory of Lord Jagannath’s treasury. Justice Biswanath Rath and Shree Jagannath Temple’s chief...

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance officials conducted raids at the premises of Additional Chief Engineer Rajesh Chandra Mohanty of the Irrigation Circle over allegations of disproportionate assets. Searches were carried out simultaneously at six locations across Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal and Jajpur. During the operation, officials detected a three-storey...

Bhubaneswar: An open letter issued by the “Concerned Citizens Forum, Odisha” and addressed to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has alleged widespread police violence and repression in the tribal districts of Rayagada and Kalahandi, urging immediate government intervention to safeguard the rights of local communities....