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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government proposed Monday an ordinance for the amendment to the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes (OSCBC) Act, 1993 for inclusion of 22 castes/communities, which have been classified as OBCs by the Centre. Currently, all the 22 castes/communities have been categorised as...

Gundlupet: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Monday said the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka was all about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development politics versus Congress' appeasement politics, and defended the state BJP government's decision to scrap the four per cent reservation for Muslims. He...

Dhenkanal: Dhenkanal district administration has served notices to as many as 30 shop owners for not using Odia on their signboards in the district, a source said Monday. The Labour Department of the district administration served the notices in the past week after Odisha government...

Bolangir: A man filed an FIR against his son at Town Police Station in Bolangir district after getting frustrated over the latter’s repeated violent behaviors, a source said Monday. The police seized a country-made pistol and dagger from the possession of the accused Nilakantha Patnaik,...

Bhubaneswar: The results of Class-X board examination will be announced by the second half of May, Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha President Ramashish Hazra informed Monday. According to Hazra, the process of publishing error-free results is already in motion. The evaluation of the answer...

Morning classes of Class-I to Class-XII will resume in Odisha from Monday with the changed class timings. Now morning classes will start at 6:30 am and end at 11 am, a notification issued by the I&PR Department of Odisha government stated.

New Delhi: The strategic forces of the Indian Army and the Air Force carried out a multi-domain exercise in the Eastern sector amid the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh, people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The exercise was aimed at validating joint plans...

Karachi: At least four police officers were killed Tuesday after terrorists opened fire at them near Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. This fresh wave of terrorist attacks will certainly haunt the Pakistan government as the attacks are aimed at security personnel. Senior...

Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday announced Tankadhar Tripathy as its candidate for the upcoming by-poll to the Jharsuguda Assembly Constituency in Odisha, party leader Subash Panigrahi informed. The saffron party will make a formal announcement in this regard soon, said Panigrahi. Tripathy currently holds...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar Monday issued a Yellow Warning for several districts of Odisha. The weather agency also predicted maximum temperature (day temperature) is very likely to rise gradually by 2-3 degrees Celsius over the next 2-3 days at a few...