Berhampur: The Kandhamal administration has issued a showcause notice to the headmaster of a high school in Nuagaon, run by the SC & ST development department, after a group of Class X students went to their examination centre on a tractor on the first day of HSC exam on Feb 19.Kandhamal collector Ved Bhushan said…
Sambalpur: A woman sanitation worker was critically injured after a speeding car hit her at Sindurpank on the outskirts of Sambalpur city on Wednesday morning.The accident took place around 7.30 am while Pinki Nayak (37) of Nuapada was sweeping the main road as part of her daily duty. According to sources, a car allegedly rammed…
The protesters demanded the govt to announce a definitive time period for declaration Bhubaneswar: Alumni of Sailabala (SB) Women’s College and members of the intelligentsia joined college students, who have been agitating on the campus in Cuttack for over 1 month, demanding university status for the institution.They staged a dharna outside the college and demanded…
Panic gripped NIT Rourkela Tuesday as a female elephant and calf entered the campus, halting classes. Forest officials launched an extensive operation, successfully guiding the animals out by evening. Meanwhile, efforts continued to deter another group of three elephants from approaching residential areas, ensuring campus safety. Rourkela: Panic swept through the NIT Rourkela campus on…
A turtle laying eggs in Gahirmatha Kendrapada: Sporadic nesting of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles has started at Gahirmatha beach, the world’s largest rookery, with around 40 turtles laying eggs over the past three days at Nasi-1 and Nasi-2 islands within the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, said forest range officer Kapilendra Pradhan on Tuesday.Forest officials are…
The product developed by the research team Rourkela: A research team from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela has got regulatory approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for commercial manufacturing and clinical deployment of its patented nano-biopolymer hemostatic technology that helps controls severe bleeding in cases of road accidents and gunshot…
Ravi Shastri with Unicef’s Soledad Herrero along with two children for the WC trophy walk in Ahmedabad last week Kolkata: The defending champions and co-hosts India might struggle to fix their left-heavy wobbly top order at the ongoing T20 World Cup, but the ICC-UNICEF partnership is going from strength to strength in using cricket’s reach…
A large hoarding collapsed during gusty winds, killing 38-year-old Sachidanand Pradhan and injuring others. This incident, echoing a similar fatal billboard collapse in Mumbai last year, raises urgent questions about the structural integrity and safety of roadside hoardings. Bhubaneswar: Less than two years after a billboard collapse in Mumbai during a dust storm claimed the…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s per capita income (PCI) has grown 9.2% in 2025-26 fiscal to Rs 1,86,761, narrowing the gap with the national average of Rs 2,19,575, the state’s Economic Survey has pointed out.The growth in the state’s per capita income outpaced the national rate of 6.9%, marking continued convergence with the country’s average income levels. In…
Odisha Vigilance officials seized over Rs 4 crore in unaccounted cash from the residence of arrested mines official Debabrata Mohanty BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Vigilance officials on Wednesday morning recovered a staggering unaccounted cash of Rs 4 crore from the residence of mines official Debabrata Mohanty, arrested the previous night while allegedly accepting a Rs 30,000 bribe…
