Cuttack: Orissa high court on Wednesday deferred hearing on a petition seeking termination of a minor rape survivor’s 31-week pregnancy, after an AIIMS Bhubaneswar medical board flagged significant risks associated with the procedure at such an advanced stage.During the hearing, Justice B P Routray took note of the minor’s examination report from May 5, which…
Bhubaneswar: The school and mass education department has warned private schools of strict action if they prevent teachers from performing Census 2027 duties. The department clarified that participation of private school teachers in Census operations was mandatory.Additional secretary Durga Prasad Mahapatra said the govt has received reports that some private school authorities were preventing teachers…
The administration said support from ‘patrons of Nandankanan’ would be taken during the process Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan Zoological Park here has selected South Africa’s Induna Primate and Parrot Park in North West province to source four cheetahs, marking a major step in the zoo’s plan to exhibit the species for the first time.Zoo authorities said the…
Kendrapada: The fate of farmers in several villages under Pattamundai block hangs in balance as dense weed growth in the Gobari river has choked water flow, crippling irrigation for summer paddy, vegetables and other crops.The nearly 10-km river stretch is heavily infested with fast-growing aquatic weeds such as water hyacinth, forming thick mats that block…
The charred room of the apartment’s lone security guard Biswajit Behera at the building’s ground-floor parking Bhubaneswar: Condemning the indifference of fellow residents, the family members of the three victims of Wednesday’s apartment fire in Laxmisagar area here alleged that neither anyone came forward to help them, nor even acknowledge the tragedy.The victims — Biswajit…
Kendrapada: Three persons were arrested on Wednesday for the murder of a 78-year-old man and for injuring three of his family members over a property dispute at Trilochanpur village under Jajpur Sadar police limits on Monday. The accused were identified as Padmalava Rout (48), Sasmita Samal (45) and Nandan Behera (31), all residents of the…
Jharsuguda: Jharsuguda police busted an organised interstate arms syndicate by arresting two suppliers, sourcing firearms from Bihar, in separate raids.In Brajrajnagar, police arrested Adarsh Dubey alias Bittu (32) of Ganganagar. A search led to the seizure of one country-made 7.65 mm pistol, two single-shot country-made pistols and four rounds of live ammunition.In a parallel raid…
Rourkela: A 24-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment by a Pocso court in Sundargarh on Tuesday for abducting and sexually assaulting a minor girl in 2021.Delivering the verdict, additional district judge-cum-presiding officer (Pocso) Gyana Ranjan Patnaik also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on the convict. The convict will have to…
This will take the city’s total legacy waste processed through bio-mining to 21 lakh metric tonnes Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday decided to take up the second phase of bio-mining of 9 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste dumped at Bhuasuni in three phases.This will take the city’s total legacy waste processed through…
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority (ORERA) has modified the quarterly progress report (QPR) formats for builders and allowed hard-copy submission for offline-registered projects, doing away with the only online filing system earlier.The revised formats, notified recently, will be applicable from the quarter ending June 2026 onwards and according to officials are expected to…
