Cuttack: Observing that prolonged absenteeism in the education sector is “intolerable”, the Orissa high court dismissed a writ appeal filed by a ‘sikhya sahayak’ (contractual teaching assistant) who challenged her disengagement after remaining absent for nearly seven years. A division bench of Justice Krishna Shripad Dixit and Justice Chittaranjan Dash, upholding a July 4, 2023,…
Keonjhar: A three-hour-long operation on Thursday helped in the rescue of a 25-year-old single-tusked elephant after it fell into an old stone well in Benayodi village under Sadar range.Sources said the tusker had barged into the garden of Narhari Nayak in search of food on Wednesday night. Startled by barking street dogs, it tried to…
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 However, two major teams from the war-hit Gulf region—UAE and Qatar—have officially withdrawn from the championship citing the escalating situation in their countries.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…
