Bhubaneswar: To ensure proper restoration of roads after trenching activities, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made it mandatory for utility agencies and individuals to obtain road-cutting or trenching permission only through its online portal. Offline applications will no longer be entertained, officials said.The decision comes amid growing complaints that after digging roads for laying…
Bhubaneswar: Following the official elimination of left-wing extremism in Odisha on Tuesday, the state police have launched an initiative to honour the sacrifices of security personnel who laid down their lives in the decades-long battle against Maoists.“As part of the heartfelt move, we have instructed district superintendents of police to send teams to the homes…
Bhubaneswar: Following the recapture of escaped prisoner Raja Sahani (33) on Thursday, police have revealed that he and his associate, Madhukant Rana (24), who was rearrested in Feb after their joint escape from Choudwar circle jail on Oct 3, 2025, had previously attempted twice to escape from the same prison but were unsucessful. A case…
A few surrendered Maoists When Pramod Kumar Satpathy, an assistant commandant of the Odisha police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) — a specialized anti-Naxal force — was conferred the Ashok Chakra posthumously on Oct 14, 2018, the honour carried both immense pride and immeasurable sorrow for his family. Satpathy and 13 other security personnel had laid…
Photo for representational purpose Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has decided to operate a compressed biogas (CBG) plant at Nayapalli, aiming at reducing waste load sharply at the city’s Temporary Transfer Station (TTS) and micro composting centres.While the TTS handles around 470 tonnes of waste daily and processes it through different methods, micro composting centres convert…
Bhubaneswar: There will be no revenue loss for Bhubaneswar-headquartered East Coast Railway (ECoR) because of the transfer of Ichchapuram-Palasa section from Khurda Road railway division to the proposed Visakhapatnam division of South Coast Railway (SCoR), the chief minister’s office (CMO) said on Friday. On the other hand, new Rayagada railway division has been sanctioned, which…
CM Mohan Charan Majhi said he had completed his self-enumeration Bhubaneswar: The first phase of Census 2027 — house listing and housing census — will commence across all 30 districts of Odisha from April 16, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced on Friday, urging people to participate in the national exercise actively.In a statement, the…
Kendrapada: The body of a seven-year-old girl, who had gone missing on Wednesday, from her village under Rajnagar police station in Kendrapada district was found from a canal near the village. Locals noticed the body floating in the river and informed police. Police sent it to the government hospital at Kendrapada for autopsy. “After getting…
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Chanchal Rana on Friday wrote to Census director Nikhil Pawan Kalyan, requesting his permission to proceed with appropriate punishment against 436 teachers, who didn’t turn up for training for the Census exercise.The teachers data was taken from school and mass education department, and they were personally contacted to join…
Berhampur: Police arrested five persons from Bhubaneswar for allegedly throwing petrol bombs at a house at Chikiti Pentho in Ganjam district’s K.Nuagaon police station limits four days ago, after the owner denied to comply with their demand for money, police said on Friday. Though no one was hurt due to the blasting of the bombs,…
