Minister Rabi Narayan Naik answers during question hour in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: The Odisha assembly on Tuesday witnessed a heated exchange between the ruling BJP and opposition BJD during Question Hour after panchayati raj and drinking water minister Rabi Narayan Naik blamed the previous BJD govt for slow pace of drinking water project works. Naik said…
Keonjhar: A man and his three-year-old son died while his wife was critically injured in a road accident on NH-49 near Tentuli village under Sadar police station limits on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Nur Salim (35) and his son Md Sama. Nur’s wife, Akbari Begum (28), was rushed to Keonjhar district headquarters…
Rourkela: Town police in Sundargarh district arrested two men from Punjab for allegedly transporting 146.3 kg of ganja worth around Rs 30 lakh, concealed under cashewnut shells. The arrested duo, driver Ajay Kumar (32) of Patiala and Verendra Pal (38) of Ludhiana district, were taken into custody on Sunday night.Acting on a tip-off about a…
Teacher job aspirants stage protest in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: Teacher job aspirants held a dharna here on Monday, demanding filling of all vacant teaching positions in high schools and Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas.Odisha School Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) last year notified recruitment for over 15,000 vacancies for elementary teachers, MLE teachers, special educator teachers, and so on,…
Berhampur/Rourkela: Altogether 24 tourists from Odisha, 22 of them from silk city, who were stranded in Dubai for four days returned home safely on Saturday night, bringing relief to their anxious families.The tourists from eight families and mostly senior citizens had gone to Gulf countries on Feb 25 on a six-day visit and were scheduled…
Bhubaneswar: Taking a cue from CBSE, the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has decided to implement an ‘improvement examination’ from this year onwards to allow students who appeared for Class XII boards to improve their scores.CHSE controller of exams (CoE) Prasanta Kumar Parida said over the past three academic sessions, the council has been…
Bhubaneswar: Cyber fraudsters siphoned off a staggering Rs 712 crore from 76,794 victims in Odisha in the past 18 months, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi revealed in the assembly on Monday. The disclosure came amid a 12% rise in cybercrime cases in 2025. Responding to a question from BJD MLA Pratap Keshari Deb, Majhi outlined…
Photo for representational purpose Bhubaneswar: The govt job aspirants with disabilities will no longer have to run to govt hospitals time and again to avail medical certificates that allow them a scribe and 20 additional minutes per hour to write their examinations. They can now use one standardised medical certificate for all the recruitment exams…
Berhampur: Family members of a migrant worker of Naikanipalli in Ganjam district’s Khallikote block, who died at his workplace in Doha two days ago, have appealed to the district administration to make special arrangements to bring back his body.The deceased was identified as Kuna Khuntia (25). He was working as a labourer in a private…
Berhampur: A 56-year-old man died and three others were injured in a blast at an ice-cream making unit at Talapatna village under Dharakote police station limits in Ganjam district on Monday.The deceased, Bideshi Pradhan of Kushapalli under Jagannath Prasad police station limits, was working in the unit. The injured — the unit’s owner, his wife…
