Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Law Commission has recommended amending the Shri Jagannath Temple Act, 1955, to enforce a strict dress code for devotees at the 12th-century shrine, including a ban on women wearing shirt and jeans or trousers inside the temple.The proposal also prescribes traditional attire for men. Although dress guidelines were attempted in the…
For representative purposes Bhubaneswar: A team from six institutions, including IIT-Bhubaneswar and NIT-Rourkela, began field work under Samudra Manthan project — which will help the govt create a systematic database of Odisha’s marine bioresources — by collecting samples from Bahuda river mouth in Ganjam. A review of the project, implemented under Odisha Marine Biotechnology Research…
KEONJHAR: A tribal man unearthed his dead sister’s skeleton and staged protest in front of a rural bank with the skeleton to get back her deposited money. The incident took place in Mallipasi village, under the Patna police station on Monday afternoon at about 1 pm. The bank officials became frightened after seeing the skeleton…
Cuttack: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the National Highways Authority of India to submit an action taken report (ATR) within two weeks over alleged safety lapses on NH-326 in Rayagada district.The commission passed the order on April 24 after taking cognisance of a complaint filed by a Jeypore-based human rights activist. It…
Berhampur: The sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of R Udayagiri in Gajapati district, Rakesh Kumar Sahoo, will be awarded the DGP Disc for his outstanding efforts in curbing narcotics smuggling. State director-general of police (DGP) Y B Khurania announced this on Monday.Under the leadership of Sahoo, an IPS officer of the 2023-batch, a record-breaking total of…
Bhubaneswar: The city police have uncovered a new form of fraud involving liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections, drawing parallels to the use of mule bank accounts in cybercrime. The racket surfaced amid supply disruptions linked to the West Asia conflict.Police said a middleman, identified as Manoj Kumar Sahoo, who is in his 40s and is…
Cuttack: A 14-year-old girl has been allegedly missing since leaving home for tuition classes on April 24.According to her family members, the girl had stepped out in the afternoon for her regular tuition but failed to return home. Initially, relatives searched for her in nearby localities and reached out to friends and acquaintances, but no…
Bhubaneswar: With at least 10 personnel falling sick during forest fire dousing exercises, forest department on Monday decided to send a proposal to the govt to procure motorcycle-mounted fire extinguishing blowers instead of body-mounted ones to check exposure to heat exhaustion and extreme fatigue.Head of forest force and PCCF K Murugesan said states like Maharashtra…
Bhubaneswar: National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has issued notices to the Mayurbhanj district collector, superintendent of police (SP), and ST & SC development, minorities & backward classes welfare department in connection with a suspected food poisoning incident at a residential school that led to the death of a Class V tribal girl on April…
Migrant workers board a bus at Baramunda stand Bhubaneswar: A visible labour crunch across businesses, including construction and hospitality, has been noticed across Bhubaneswar and nearby cities as hundreds of migrant workers from neighbouring West Bengal have left for their home state to cast their votes in the assembly elections.A steady flow of workers, primarily…
