A shopkeeper uses an induction cooker to prepare tea at a stall in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: In what has turned into a battle for survival, hundreds of OMFED parlours and independent tea kiosks across the city have started switching to electric stoves as the ongoing LPG shortage triggered by the West Asia conflict continues to disrupt…
BHUBANESWAR: The early morning fire at the trauma care centre of SCB Medical College and Hospital has left behind an irreparable loss and a haunting question for Krupasindhu Mallick of Bhadrak. His 11-year-old daughter, Kalyani Mallick, admitted to the paediatric ICU on the second floor of the trauma care centre, died hours after the blaze…
Bhubaneswar: Health minister Mukesh Mahaling on Tuesday asserted that the govt had responded to the SCB Medical College and Hospital fire “with full sincerity and compassion”, even as opposition BJD and Congress demanded his resignation and held protests inside the assembly.As soon as proceedings began at 10.30 am, BJD MLAs trooped into the well of…
Paralympic Committee of India and Odisha govt officials with para athletes during a press conference in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday The National Para Athletics Championship is set to be held at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar from Thursday, with 1,460 para-athletes representing 28 states, along with teams from the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Services Sports…
DGP Y B Khurania in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday Bhubaneswar: Odisha police blocked nearly 40,000 mule accounts used by cyber scammers to funnel illicit funds worth over Rs 500 crore, during a month-long enforcement drive, informed director general of police Y B Khurania on Tuesday.The operation, codenamed Cyber Kavach, ran from Feb 13 to March 12….
Cuttack: In a significant ruling, the Orissa high court has held that creation or bifurcation of a gram panchayat is a matter of policy and lies within the domain of the executive, not something courts can mandate solely on population grounds.A division bench of Justices Krishna Shripad Dixit and Chittaranjan Dash, in a recent judgment,…
Harvested tomatoes kept at a field in Ganjam district Berhampur: Tomato growers in Ganjam district, who suffered heavy losses as the market price crashed following the surge in production, heaved a sigh of relief after Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS) facilitated the market linkage of their crop to avoid distress sale.Due to bumper…
Berhampur: Family members of a migrant worker from Ganjam district’s Komanda village who died at his workplace in the Maldives, four days ago, have appealed to the district administration on Tuesday to make arrangements to bring his body back for his last rites. The deceased, Shankar Behera (40), was working as a labourer in a…
Bhubaneswar: The govt on Tuesday directed all hospitals to ensure that fire safety alert systems remain active at all times. While the directive did not specify the immediate trigger, it bore significance in light of allegations from staff at SCB Medical College and Hospital that critical alarm devices had been switched off when a massive…
Temperature rising in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: With temperature rising abnormally due to erratic weather patterns and the heat-absorbing nature of urban clusters, the housing and urban development department on Tuesday issued a comprehensive standard operating procedure directing all urban local bodies to implement heat-mitigation and drinking water-supply measures.According to the department, unpredictable rainfall followed by persistent…
