Bhubaneswar: State Selection Board (SSB) on Wednesday announced the schedule for Common Postgraduate Entrance Test (CPET) 2026, with examinations slated to be held from May 5 to 16 across the state.The entrance test, to be conducted for admissions to 50 postgraduate subjects, will be held in two sittings each day. The morning session is scheduled…
Koraput/Bhubaneswar: Angry tribals armed with axes and sharp objects clashed with police on Tuesday over construction of a road linked to a Vedanta Group bauxite mining block in Rayagada district, leaving 58 cops among 70 people injured.The villagers allegedly attacked the police using tangias (axes) and other traditional tools commonly used for farming and cutting…
Balasore: In a major crackdown on cattle smuggling, Odisha police on Tuesday carried out simultaneous raids at 33 locations across Balasore, Bhadrak and Mayurbhanj districts, detaining 12 people and seizing more than Rs 46.01 lakh in cash, along with firearms, gold and silver jewellery and several vehicles. Some financial documents were also seized during the…
Bhubaneswar: A recent road excavation work in Deogarh district opened a portal into the past, providing a glimpse of a world inhabited by early human settlers.Road construction work was going on near the OSRTC bus stand in Reamal tehsil of Deogarh district. A bypass road was being built through a small laterite hillock when workers…
Illegal sand mining is rampant in Odisha Cuttack: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has admitted an appeal challenging the grant of environmental clearance (EC) for a sand mining project in Mayurbhanj district. The clearance was issued by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Odisha in favour of a private lessee for the Budhabalanga river…
Berhampur: Purported marital tensions led a 28-year old man to allegedly kill his 25-year-old wife with a kitchen knife and then commit suicide by hanging himself from the branch of a tree, around 200 m from his house. The incident was reported from Saranuapalli under Ganjam district’s Belaguntha police station limits on Monday night.People alerted…
Bhubaneswar: In a major move, the Odisha Bridge and Construction Corporation (OBCC) Ltd has initiated the process to ground the ambitious new central secretariat and the assembly buildings that will come up over a whopping 71 acres of land available adjacent to the current Lok Seva Bhawan.The OBCC on Tuesday issued an expression of interest…
The unrest centres on a proposed 3km road that the locals view as a precursor to mining in the ecologically sensitive Sijimali hills. KORAPUT/BHUBANESWAR: Tribals armed with axes and other sharp farming tools clashed with police Tuesday over the construction of a road linked to an upcoming Vedanta Group bauxite mining project in Odisha’s Rayagada,…
The Dandbose airstrip in Mayurbhanj district Bhubaneswar: Three more destinations in Odisha — Rangeilunda, Amarda and Dandbose — have been included in the tender for air connectivity from the state capital under modified regional connectivity scheme RCS-2 (Udan) after the Centre launched it on March 25.Official sources said with the Union civil aviation ministry’s support…
From municipal waste an India map has been made and put on display at the waste to wonder park in Bhubaneswar<EP,1> Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday signed an MoU with Govt Polytechnic College to turn some selected recyclable waste into art pieces.BMC officials said students of Polytechnic College will make the art pieces,…
