Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the special session of Parliament scheduled from April 16 to 18 to amend the Constitution for implementation of 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies and increase Lok Sabha seats to 850 from 2029, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday said the move would give a major…
Bhubaneswar: A court in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday sentenced seven men to three years in prison for supplying pre-activated SIM cards and one-time passwords (OTPs) to suspected Pakistani spies.The convicts—hailing from Odisha, Maharashtra, and Assam—were arrested by the crime branch’s special task force (STF) between May and June 2023. They were identified as Pathanisamant Lenka, Saroj…
Veterinary staffer feeds chimpanzee Suraj bottled human milk formula Bhubaneswar: In a rare case of sustained veterinary intervention and neonatal care, Nandankanan Zoological Park here has successfully hand-reared a chimpanzee after the infant was abandoned by its mother, just 20 days after birth.The infant, named Suraj by caregivers, was born on Jan 30, 2025, to…
Bhubaneswar: A 22-year-old woman from Nayagarh district, employed with a pharmaceutical company in Bhubaneswar, died allegedly by suicide on Wednesday while on a video call with a man, according to police sources.Her body was found hanging in her rented accommodation in the Unit-III area under Kharavel Nagar police limits. She shared the room with another…
Under the system, the devotees will be accommodated in a separate holding area before being allowed entry into the sanctum Bhubaneswar: Devotees visiting the Jagannath temple in Puri may soon be spared of waiting in queues for hours. The Odisha govt is planning to introduce an online slot booking system to streamline crowd management and…
Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra Bhubaneswar: Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra on Wednesday urged railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to reconsider the recent restructuring of the Waltair railway division, stating that the move has adversely affected Odisha’s railway network by fragmenting key routes and weakening administrative coherence.In a detailed letter to the railway minister, Patra said…
The state govt has asked district collectors to stay on alert and take necessary precautionary measures Bhubaneswar: Western Odisha reeled under intense heatwave on Wednesday with Titilagarh emerging as the hottest place at 42°C, as temperatures surged across the state. Bhawanipatna recorded the second-highest maximum temperature of 41.8°C, while eight other locations reporting temperature between…
Swayam Pragnyan Samantaray Bhubaneswar: In the social-media era, where everyone has something to say, only a few manage to strike a chord. Swayam Pragnyan Samantaray (18) is one of them.The undergraduate’s thought-provoking speech on B R Ambedkar during the leader’s 136th birth anniversary celebration on the Parliament Complex in New Delhi on Tuesday drew appreciation…
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha govt on Wednesday implemented the Odisha Secretariat Workflow Automation System (OSWAS) across all 115 urban local bodies in the state, ushering in a major shift from paper-based administration to a unified digital workflow system.Officials said the housing and urban development department took the reformative measure to cover all five municipal corporations, 48…
CBSE Class 10 students celebrate their results in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday Bhubaneswar: Around 96.27% of 65,204 students from Odisha, who appeared for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X examinations this year, cleared the exams, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. The exams were conducted from Feb 17 to March 10.CM Mohan…
