Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born and UK-based entrepreneur Captain (Retd) Arun Kar and his wife, Nidhi, have funded the rebuilding of the washroom at a children’s home for girls in Nabarangpur district after they found that the old one in a dilapidated condition and roof-less.The washroom being built at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Girls’ Ashram, Majhiguda, is in the…
Bhubaneswar: Obesity has increased in Odisha over the years with Cuttack reporting 10.5% obesity among adolescents while 31.6% are overweight, according to a scientific study. Similarly, in Bhubaneswar 23.7% young adolescents are obese and 18.7% are overweight, another study concluded.A study by 5 researchers from the community medicine departments of SCB Medical College and Hospital…
A road overbridge being built in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: In order to ease growing traffic in the state capital, the public works department has drawn up a comprehensive Bhubaneswar decongestion plan featuring 37 road development projects, including the construction of three new road overbridges (ROBs) in partnership with the railways.The details were presented during the ongoing…
A BJP MLA collects Rajya Sabha nomination paper set from the assembly Bhubaneswar: BJP, which is comfortably placed to win two of the four Rajya Sabha seats that will fall vacant on April 2, is preparing to field three candidates, it is reliably learnt, preparing the ground for a contest that was last seen in…
BHUBANESWAR: The inventory of Jagannath Temple’s Ratna Bhandar will commence on March 25, temple chief administrator Arabinda Kumar Padhee announced on Monday.The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has not fixed a timeline for completion of the exercise, though the Orissa high court had directed the govt on Jan 27 to finish the process within three…
BHUBANESWAR: In the after-math of the recent death of five people in two separate blasts during illegal prepa-ration of explosives in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, the commissionerate police ha-ve come up with a reward scheme with an intention to curb such unlawful activities.According to the officials, a cash prize of Rs 10,000 will be given to…
Bhubaneswar: Night after night, Odia families in Bahrain are learning a new routine: keep phones charged, track alerts and scan the sky for the next flash.The West Asia turmoil, fuelled by the Israel-Iran war, pushed fear into ordinary apartments where Odia people built lives around steady jobs and remittances. Now, as Iranian missiles fall in…
Balasore: The Balasore police on Monday arrested three persons and seized contraband ganja, firearms, ammunition and vehicles during a midnight operation near Tamulia bridge under Sadar police station limits.The arrested trio was identified as Manoj Das alias Kalia (27) of Bhoisahi in Balasore town; Raju alias Gangadhar Das (38) of Tundra under Khantapada police station…
Plumes of smoke as seen from a street in Bahrain Bhubaneswar: Amid more explosions across Gulf states, members of Odia Samaj in UAE and Bahrain have sought the intervention of the Indian govt for the safety of Odias either staying or working there.Members of Odia Samaj in UAE, led by its president Amiya Mishra, held…
Cuttack: A 32-year-old IT professional from Cuttack has been stranded in Doha after his flight to Romania was forced to return mid-air due to escalating conflict in the region.Prateek Dev Das, a resident of Tinikonia Bazar in Cuttack, had begun his journey from Bengaluru to Romania on Feb 28 on an official Deloitte assignment. After…
