Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan Sambalpur: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday inaugurated and laid foundation stones for a total of 47 developmental projects worth nearly Rs 194 crore during a programme held on Mini Stadium premises in Naktideul block of Sambalpur district.The projects — among which 16 were inaugurated — are aimed at…
Bhubaneswar: A PhD scholar of IIT Bhubaneswar died after allegedly falling from the sixth floor of his hostel building on the campus on Saturday.The deceased has been identified as Tanikonda Nishant Kumar (32), a native of Andhra Pradesh. Kumar was pursuing his research in the department of electrical engineering. While police are investigating the incident,…
BHUBANESWAR: A man was brutally murdered after assailants allegedly chopped off both his hands in Odisha’s Nayagarh district on Monday morning, police said.The victim was attacked by a group of unidentified persons. He died on the spot due to severe injuries, officials said.The deceased was identified as Ajit Kumar Sahu, a resident of Nayagarh district.Police…
On Sunday, the crime branch formally took over the probe Bhubaneswar: Odisha govt on Sunday suspended a sub-inspector, an assistant sub-inspector and two constables while also shunting the inspector-in-charge of Balianta police station for alleged inaction while a mob beat a railway constable to death in the presence of police on the city’s outskirts on…
Koraput: A 19-year-old youth, who was allegedly chased, fired at and abducted by unidentified assailants in Rayagada town on Saturday night, was found dead near Nagavali river at Tumbiguda on Sunday morning, police said.According to police, a group of assailants, travelling in a car as well as riding a motorcycle allegedly intercepted Nikhil Hadipa, a…
Bhubaneswar: The city police did not apply the newly introduced ‘mob lynching’ provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in the FIR concerning the murder of railway constable Soumya Ranjan Swain. Instead, the Balianta police registered the case under the general category of murder, despite the BNS creating a distinct Section 103(2) specifically for mob…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha vigilance on Sunday arrested six men, including a suspended govt official, for allegedly embezzling nearly Rs 8 crore through fraudulent pension bills from the Chandbali sub-treasury in Bhadrak district.The alleged mastermind, Santosh Kumar Panda, a former senior assistant at Chandbali sub-treasury office who was recently suspended after the fraud was unearthed, was arrested…
In a landmark exercise, ASI has begun conservation work in Konark’s Sun temple, carefully removing an unusual protective measure which has kept a part of the shrine’s grandeur hidden for centuries. TOI looks at how this has opened a new chapter in preservation of Odisha’s only Unesco World Heritage Site Konark’s Sun Temple, Odisha’s only…
Berhampur: A sub-adult tusker was found dead in Ghaghara forest area under Tarsingi range in Ganjam district on Saturday. According to forest officials, the elephant, which had migrated from a neighboring forest division to Ghumusar, had been ailing and was under treatment for the past few days.On Sunday, its autopsy was conducted. “The exact cause…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha has recorded one of the sharpest declines in secondary school dropout rates in the country over the last decade, bringing it down from 49.47% in 2014-15 to 15% in 2024-25, according to a decadal analysis of India’s school education system by the government think-tank Niti Aayog.The recently released report, titled ‘School Education System…
