Cuttack: Orissa high court on Monday directed that the 16-year-old rape survivor, who is over 31 weeks pregnant, be examined by experts at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar at the earliest to assess whether there was any possibility of termination of pregnancy after Capital Hospital cautioned against the process. The HC has asked AIIMS-Bhubaneswar to submit its report by…
Berhampur: Acting on a tip-off, police recovered 10 country-made guns from two places in the forest areas of Kandhamal district on Sunday, taking the number of seized arms to 12 in the last three days. While seven country-made firearms have been seized from Ladargaon forest area under Tumudibandha police station limits, three were recovered from…
Pravati Parida, deputy chief minister, disburses more than Rs 61 crore to over 79,000 beneficiaries on Monday Bhubaneswar: Pravati Parida, deputy chief minister, on Monday disbursed more than Rs 61 crore to over 79,000 beneficiaries who were earlier left out of the state govt’s flagship ‘Subhadra’ scheme because of technical and verification-related issues.The financial assistance…
Berhampur: A three-year-old boy from Umerkote in Nabarangpur district has got a new lease of life after doctors at govt-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital here successfully removed a 8cm-long twig lodged in his brain in a four-hour surgery. Om Harijan is currently recovering at the paediatric intensive care unit of the hospital. A team,…
Fencing underway at Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary Bhubaneswar: Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary has begun iron mesh fencing to keep the landscape protected from poaching activities while maintaining a 120-km-long barrier between it and 150 villages.This will also to pave the way for the much-awaited tiger translocation in the sanctuary.“Wire mesh fencing along the sanctuary borders isn’t about…
Deputy chief minister K V Singh Deo inaugurates power system simulation laboratory at the Power Training Centre, Chandaka, of Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited (OPTCL) on Monday Bhubaneswar: Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (OPTCL) on Monday inaugurated a power system simulation laboratory at the Power Training Centre, Chandaka, to strengthen grid planning, improve operational reliability…
Deputy CM Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo inaugurates power system simulation laboratory at the Power Training Centre, Chandaka, of Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited on Monday Bhubaneswar: Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (OPTCL) on Monday inaugurated a power system simulation laboratory at the Power Training Centre, Chandaka, to strengthen grid planning, improve operational reliability and support…
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd (Omfed) has increased milk prices by around Rs 4 per litre from Sunday. Now a litre of toned milk will cost Rs 54, premium milk Rs 58, gold milk Rs 60 and gold plus Rs 64.Vijay Amruta Kulange, the managing director of Omfed, said the Omfed…
Bhubaneswar: Nearly half of the 9,500 building plan violation cases registered under Odisha Development Authority Act, 1982 remain pending across the city’s three zones.Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials said the violations largely relate to construction without obtaining plan approval, failure to adhere to sanctioned building plans, encroachment, unauthorised extensions and other structural deviations. Authorities said…
Bhubaneswar: At least 16,000 students have skipped the annual Class X board exam in the past two years, triggering concern in the school and mass education department about absenteeism.Data available with the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) revealed that 8,364 students who had filled up examination forms this year did not appear for the exam….
