Bhubaneswar: A recent road excavation work in Deogarh district opened a portal into the past, providing a glimpse of a world inhabited by early human settlers.Road construction work was going on near the OSRTC bus stand in Reamal tehsil of Deogarh district. A bypass road was being built through a small laterite hillock when workers…
Illegal sand mining is rampant in Odisha Cuttack: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has admitted an appeal challenging the grant of environmental clearance (EC) for a sand mining project in Mayurbhanj district. The clearance was issued by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Odisha in favour of a private lessee for the Budhabalanga river…
Berhampur: Purported marital tensions led a 28-year old man to allegedly kill his 25-year-old wife with a kitchen knife and then commit suicide by hanging himself from the branch of a tree, around 200 m from his house. The incident was reported from Saranuapalli under Ganjam district’s Belaguntha police station limits on Monday night.People alerted…
Bhubaneswar: In a major move, the Odisha Bridge and Construction Corporation (OBCC) Ltd has initiated the process to ground the ambitious new central secretariat and the assembly buildings that will come up over a whopping 71 acres of land available adjacent to the current Lok Seva Bhawan.The OBCC on Tuesday issued an expression of interest…
The unrest centres on a proposed 3km road that the locals view as a precursor to mining in the ecologically sensitive Sijimali hills. KORAPUT/BHUBANESWAR: Tribals armed with axes and other sharp farming tools clashed with police Tuesday over the construction of a road linked to an upcoming Vedanta Group bauxite mining project in Odisha’s Rayagada,…
The Dandbose airstrip in Mayurbhanj district Bhubaneswar: Three more destinations in Odisha — Rangeilunda, Amarda and Dandbose — have been included in the tender for air connectivity from the state capital under modified regional connectivity scheme RCS-2 (Udan) after the Centre launched it on March 25.Official sources said with the Union civil aviation ministry’s support…
From municipal waste an India map has been made and put on display at the waste to wonder park in Bhubaneswar<EP,1> Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday signed an MoU with Govt Polytechnic College to turn some selected recyclable waste into art pieces.BMC officials said students of Polytechnic College will make the art pieces,…
Bhubaneswar: CM Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday inaugurated a state-level budget awareness workshop, “Ame Janiba, Ama Budget” (We will know, our budget), and said the budget was not merely a statement of income and expenditure but a roadmap for Odisha’s overall development and fulfilment of citizens’ aspirations.Addressing the workshop at the Lok Seva Bhawan Convention…
Bhubaneswar: Food supplies and consumer welfare minister Krushna Chandra Patra on Tuesday held a meeting with representatives of traders’ associations from across the state to ensure uninterrupted supply and availability of essential commodities in the market.Key issues discussed included measures to control price rise of essential commodities, ensuring adequate availability of food items and curbing…
Bhubaneswar: Escalating conflict in West Asia has begun to cast a shadow on residential neighbourhoods in the capital, with several large housing societies witnessing panic booking, leading to simultaneous hoarding of LPG cylinders amid fears of an artificial scarcity of cooking gas. Residents across gated communities in Bhubaneswar said anxiety over possible supply disruptions has…
