The housing and urban development department on Tuesday conducted a review of its preparedness in case of a heatwave Bhubaneswar: With temperatures steadily rising across the state, the housing and urban development department on Tuesday conducted a high-level review of its preparedness in case of a heatwave.The meeting, chaired by housing and urban development minister…
Bhubaneswar: The women and child development (WCD) department held a workshop on Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) for officials of the state secretariat in Bhubaneswar, aiming to strengthen awareness and promote a safe and respectful work environment. Speaking on the occasion, Mrinalini Darswal, commissioner-cum-secretary of the…
The money seized from his home Bhubaneswar: Odisha vigilance officials on Tuesday evening arrested Ambika Prasad Rath, an auditor at the office of the regional director of education (RDE) in Bhubaneswar, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 4,000 from a staff member of a degree college. The bribe was reportedly demanded for service verification…
Bhubaneswar: Deputy CM and Mission Shakti minister Pravati Parida disbursed financial assistance, including interest subvention, to lakhs of women self-help groups (SHGs), aiming to strengthen their economic activities and promote women entrepreneurship, at an event here on Tuesday.Parida said women are now at the forefront of the state’s development journey. While earlier efforts focused on…
Minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia said that 17,450 gig and platform workers from the state have been registered on the ministry of labour and employment’s e-Shram portal Bhubaneswar: Despite the rapid expansion of the state’s gig and platform workforce, registration on the e-Shram portal remains low, making a significant number of workers unable to access the…
Kendrapada: A 50-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl in Jajpur district. Police said the girl was returning home from a nearby market on Monday evening when the accused, her neighbour, dragged her to a secluded spot and raped her.On Tuesday, the girl’s mother lodged an FIR alleging the assault…
CM Mohan Charan Majhi virtually joining the meeting from Bhubaneswar on Tuesday Bhubaneswar: In a major push to strengthen rural drinking water delivery systems, Odisha on Tuesday signed MoUs with the Union govt as part of the nationwide rollout of reform-linked implementation under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) 2.0.The MoUs were signed in the presence of…
The project’s slow progress has worsened living conditions in the area Koraput: Residents of New Street in Jeypore are facing inconvenience due to the delay in completing a major drainage project along Jagannath Sagar.The 1,127m long and 5m wide drain, undertaken by the minor irrigation (MI) department, and costing around Rs 4 crore, remains incomplete…
The consignment was meant to be routed to poll-bound Kerala & Tamil Nadu Bhubaneswar: A joint operation by the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) and customs officials led to the seizure of hydroponic weed worth about Rs 2 crore at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here on Tuesday.The contraband was seized from two passengers from…
File photo of laterite mining Cuttack: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered a joint probe into alleged illegal mining of morrum and laterite stones in Odisha’s Khurda district, taking note of claims that large-scale extraction has been carried out without statutory clearances and in close proximity to an ecologically sensitive zone.The NGT’s east zone…
