Bhubaneswar: Odisha is headed for a rare Rajya Sabha face-off between two independent candidates — BJP-backed former Union minister Dilip Ray and the BJD-Congress-CPI(M) common nominee, urologist Datteswar Hota — as nominations closed on Thursday for 37 seats nationwide, including four from the state.For the remaining three seats, BJP state chief Manmohan Samal, outgoing BJP…
Revenue minister Suresh Pujari at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: Revenue minister Suresh Pujari, who was admitted to AIIMS Bhubaneswar, on Tuesday after complaining of chest pain, was shifted to AIIMS New Delhi on Thursday for advanced evaluation and treatment. Pujari had earlier undergone angioplasty at AIIMS New Delhi.According to sources close to the minister, Pujari visited…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only BHUBANESWAR: Bhubaneswar is set to host the World Beach Volleyball Championship (Men & Women) 2026 from March 4 onwards with 50 countrie participating. However, two major teams from the war-hit Gulf region—UAE and Qatar—have officially withdrawn from the championship citing the escalating situation in their countries. The absence of…
Rourkela: With Bahrain reeling under continued missile and drone strikes, fear has gripped the Odia diaspora and other expatriates living there. Amid the worsening situation, Arun Kumar Praharaj, founder of Bahrain Odia Samaj, on Monday appealed to the Union govt and state govt to prepare for a possible large-scale evacuation of Indians.“While we remain hopeful…
BHUBANESWAR: Former Union Minister Dilip Ray on Tuesday announced that he will contest the Rajya Sabha polls as an Independent candidate, even as state BJP President Manmohan Samal declared the party’s support for him, setting the stage for a contest for one of the four seats falling vacant from Odisha.Of the four seats that fall…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP on Tuesday nominated state unit President Manmohan Samal and re-nominated outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar as its candidates for two Upper House seats from Odisha.Samal previously served in the Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2004. A native of Mirhasanpur in Bhadrak district’s Dhamnagar area, the 66-year-old leader holds a postgraduate degree…
The two accused in police custody Bhubaneswar: City police on Monday blew the lid off a sophisticated international SIM box-based crime syndicate that was illegally converting foreign calls into local ones to facilitate cyber fraud.Acting on a department of telecommunications alert, the commissionerate’s special squad arrested two Kerala natives, Ummar M and Siyahul Haq, both…
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…
