Bhubaneswar: With at least 10 personnel falling sick during forest fire dousing exercises, forest department on Monday decided to send a proposal to the govt to procure motorcycle-mounted fire extinguishing blowers instead of body-mounted ones to check exposure to heat exhaustion and extreme fatigue.Head of forest force and PCCF K Murugesan said states like Maharashtra…
Bhubaneswar: National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has issued notices to the Mayurbhanj district collector, superintendent of police (SP), and ST & SC development, minorities & backward classes welfare department in connection with a suspected food poisoning incident at a residential school that led to the death of a Class V tribal girl on April…
Migrant workers board a bus at Baramunda stand Bhubaneswar: A visible labour crunch across businesses, including construction and hospitality, has been noticed across Bhubaneswar and nearby cities as hundreds of migrant workers from neighbouring West Bengal have left for their home state to cast their votes in the assembly elections.A steady flow of workers, primarily…
Women queue up near a hand pump to collect water Kendrapada: Several villages in Kendrapada district are facing an acute drinking water crisis this summer as work on a Rs 241-crore mega drinking water supply project remains incomplete.The ambitious project, aimed at supplying potable water to salinity-hit coastal pockets of the district, is moving at…
Sambalpur: A district and sessions court on Monday sentenced a 22-year-old man to life imprisonment for the 2024 murder of an unidentified beggar at Ainthapali here.District and sessions judge Pragyan Panigrahi, after examining testimonies of 14 witnesses and other evidence on record, held Ayush Munda of Mahanadi Vihar, under Ainthapali police limits, guilty of murder…
Cuttack: SCB Medical College and Hospital has launched an inquiry following a petition alleging the sale of 14 newborns from the hospital between 2019 and 2025.The probe was launched after the office of the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC), Central Range, sent a grievance petition seeking an inquiry and an action taken report. The petition claimed…
The auto-ambulance service being flagged off in Ganjam district on Monday Berhampur: Ganjam district administration on Monday launched the free auto-ambulance services to ferry pregnant women and children under one-year of age from remote and unconnected areas of the district to the nearby health centers.Named “Nirikhyana Sathi”, the initiative aims at smooth institutional delivery of…
Berhampur: Berhampur MP Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy has urged chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi to rename Paralakhemundi railway station in Gajapati district after Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati on the occasion of birth anniversary celebration of then Parala Maharaja on Sunday. “The renaming of Paralakhemundi as Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati railway station would be a real tribute…
Berhampur: Govt-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital here on Sunday opened a special mother, newborn care unit, the first-of-its-kind in Odisha.The 10-bed unit with modern equipment was opened by Berhampur MLA K Anil Kumar, in the presence of dean-cum-superintendent of the medical college, Suchitra Dash, and several senior doctors.The special unit, set up under National…
A scene from the play Daku Dhurandhar Bhubaneswar: Members of Odisha Society of the Americas (OSA), NYNJPA chapter, presented Odia drama ‘Daku Dhurandhar’ at the Northeast Regional Drama Festival (RDF) in Massachusetts, recently. The 45-minute play, a suspense thriller with four scenes, was staged at Miscoe Hill Middle School, Mendon.The play written and directed by…
