Bhubaneswar: Taking a cue from CBSE, the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has decided to implement an ‘improvement examination’ from this year onwards to allow students who appeared for Class XII boards to improve their scores.CHSE controller of exams (CoE) Prasanta Kumar Parida said over the past three academic sessions, the council has been…
Bhubaneswar: Cyber fraudsters siphoned off a staggering Rs 712 crore from 76,794 victims in Odisha in the past 18 months, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi revealed in the assembly on Monday. The disclosure came amid a 12% rise in cybercrime cases in 2025. Responding to a question from BJD MLA Pratap Keshari Deb, Majhi outlined…
Photo for representational purpose Bhubaneswar: The govt job aspirants with disabilities will no longer have to run to govt hospitals time and again to avail medical certificates that allow them a scribe and 20 additional minutes per hour to write their examinations. They can now use one standardised medical certificate for all the recruitment exams…
Berhampur: Family members of a migrant worker of Naikanipalli in Ganjam district’s Khallikote block, who died at his workplace in Doha two days ago, have appealed to the district administration to make special arrangements to bring back his body.The deceased was identified as Kuna Khuntia (25). He was working as a labourer in a private…
Berhampur: A 56-year-old man died and three others were injured in a blast at an ice-cream making unit at Talapatna village under Dharakote police station limits in Ganjam district on Monday.The deceased, Bideshi Pradhan of Kushapalli under Jagannath Prasad police station limits, was working in the unit. The injured — the unit’s owner, his wife…
Photo for representational purpose Bhubaneswar: To provide safe, sustainable and efficient connectivity for people and goods and to improve the quality and durability of road network, the state govt has issued a set of guidelines for the maintenance of state highways, major district roads and other district roads.The public works department (PWD) rolled out a…
Cuttack: Open dumping of garbage on a narrow road has emerged as a major civic concern for residents of Saanta Sahi area in Cuttack city. The garbage pile, located between the busy Dolamundai and Bajrakabati areas, has been causing inconvenience to commuters and residents alike.Locals alleged that sanitation workers of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) have…
Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway (ECoR) has cancelled three pairs of trains between March 14 and May 16 to undertake an infrastructure upgradation project at Puri railway station. The work involved the execution of ballastless track construction in the station yard and development of platforms 7 and 8. The trains which have been cancelled are Shalimar-Puri-Shalimar…
The protest being staged in Berhampur on Monday Berhampur: Several members of the South Odisha Railway Infrastructure Development Committee on Monday demonstrated in front of the Khurda Road divisional railway manager’s office, demanding development of the Berhampur railway station and construction of more railway lines in the region.The committee has demanded new railway lines from…
Sambalpur: Three men were killed after a motorcycle collided head-on with a container truck near Pithamaren at Kureibahal under Jamankira police limits in Sambalpur district on Sunday.IIC, Jamankira police station, Ranjan Nag said the crash took place around 11 am when the bike, carrying three riders, rammed into a container truck coming towards Jamankira from…
