The protesters demanded the govt to announce a definitive time period for declaration Bhubaneswar: Alumni of Sailabala (SB) Women’s College and members of the intelligentsia joined college students, who have been agitating on the campus in Cuttack for over 1 month, demanding university status for the institution.They staged a dharna outside the college and demanded…
Panic gripped NIT Rourkela Tuesday as a female elephant and calf entered the campus, halting classes. Forest officials launched an extensive operation, successfully guiding the animals out by evening. Meanwhile, efforts continued to deter another group of three elephants from approaching residential areas, ensuring campus safety. Rourkela: Panic swept through the NIT Rourkela campus on…
A turtle laying eggs in Gahirmatha Kendrapada: Sporadic nesting of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles has started at Gahirmatha beach, the world’s largest rookery, with around 40 turtles laying eggs over the past three days at Nasi-1 and Nasi-2 islands within the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, said forest range officer Kapilendra Pradhan on Tuesday.Forest officials are…
The product developed by the research team Rourkela: A research team from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela has got regulatory approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for commercial manufacturing and clinical deployment of its patented nano-biopolymer hemostatic technology that helps controls severe bleeding in cases of road accidents and gunshot…
Ravi Shastri with Unicef’s Soledad Herrero along with two children for the WC trophy walk in Ahmedabad last week Kolkata: The defending champions and co-hosts India might struggle to fix their left-heavy wobbly top order at the ongoing T20 World Cup, but the ICC-UNICEF partnership is going from strength to strength in using cricket’s reach…
A large hoarding collapsed during gusty winds, killing 38-year-old Sachidanand Pradhan and injuring others. This incident, echoing a similar fatal billboard collapse in Mumbai last year, raises urgent questions about the structural integrity and safety of roadside hoardings. Bhubaneswar: Less than two years after a billboard collapse in Mumbai during a dust storm claimed the…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s per capita income (PCI) has grown 9.2% in 2025-26 fiscal to Rs 1,86,761, narrowing the gap with the national average of Rs 2,19,575, the state’s Economic Survey has pointed out.The growth in the state’s per capita income outpaced the national rate of 6.9%, marking continued convergence with the country’s average income levels. In…
Odisha Vigilance officials seized over Rs 4 crore in unaccounted cash from the residence of arrested mines official Debabrata Mohanty BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Vigilance officials on Wednesday morning recovered a staggering unaccounted cash of Rs 4 crore from the residence of mines official Debabrata Mohanty, arrested the previous night while allegedly accepting a Rs 30,000 bribe…
A fireman in action at the market complex on Tuesday Bhubaneswar: A massive fire that engulfed a four-storeyed market complex in Lingipur late on Monday and continued well into Tuesday re-ignited a larger debate on fire safety compliance in the city’s rapidly growing urban landscape.While the immediate focus of the authorities remained on dousing the…
Topical Anaesthetic Inducer Bhubaneswar: Boosting Odisha’s growing MedTech ecosystem, city-based startup ZTOP IOT Solutions Pvt Ltd secured a patent for a pioneering device designed to reduce pain caused by needle pricks during vaccinations, blood tests and other diagnostic procedures.The innovation, called the Topical Anaesthetic Inducer (TAI), aims to make routine medical procedures far more patient-friendly….
