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Rourkela: A 2019 Cricket World Cup betting racket has been busted and two persons have been arrested here, police said. Acting on a tip-off, the Plant Site police raided a house at Janta Niwas lane here late last night and seized Rs 31 lakh. Around 17 mobile phones and calculators were also seized during the [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government on Monday approved additional pension of one month to all the beneficiaries under Madhubabu Pension Yojana (MPY) and National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) in five cyclone Fani-hit districts. The beneficiaries in affected districts of Puri, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara and Khurda will receive the additional one month pension. An amount of Rs [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday named Bhawanipatna MLA Pradipta Kumar Naik as the leader of the legislature party a day before the commencement of the first session of the 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly. National President Amit Shah approved Naik’s name as the leader of the legislature party, the BJP said in a statement. [...]

Bhubaneswar: In a major step towards strengthening medical education in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday gave approval for the creation of 70 new posts in Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Science and Research (VIMSAR) Nursing College in Burla and SCB Nursing College in Cuttack. According to a release issued by the Chief [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha will be a Model Lokayukta State in the coming days. The body of Lokayukta is yet to be fully established but has been established substantially and the state government is wholeheartedly cooperating to make it a Model Lokayukta. Speaking to the media for the first time after taking charge of the Lokayukta, Justice [...]

Bhubaneswar: An alert constable of the Railway Protection Force yesterday turned savior as he saved the life a passenger who accidentally fell from a running train on the 2nd platform of Bhubaneswar Railway Station. The passenger – Nazir Malik, aged about 24 years, from West Bengal, while detraining from running Bhadrak-Bhubaneswar MEMU had fallen between [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Chief Minister’s grievance cell will be reopened for public from July 1st. A release issued by the government said “As the onset of monsoon brought relief from the heat wave condition, the CM’s grievance cell along with the grievance cells of chief secretary, principal secretaries and secretaries of various departments and all [...]

Bolangir: An Odisha legislator, who forced a Junior Engineer of Public Works Department (PWD) to do sit-ups as punishment for alleged poor quality of road construction in his constituency last month, was sent to jail today. Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher has been sent to judicial custody after the ADJ Court rejected his bail plea in [...]

Bhubaneswar: A day before commencement of the first session of the 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly, Dasarathi Satpathy today took charge as the Secretary of the Legislative Assembly. The appointment was made on June 21 in a major bureaucratic reshuffle at the IAS and OAS levels. The post was laying vacant following the retirement of Amiya [...]

Puri: Several servitors at Puri Srimandir had allegedly violated rules on Snana Purnima by facilitating a local MLA to reach the Snana Mandapa of the deities, media reports stated. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) issued notice to servitors on the basis of CCTV surveillance footage which showed some servitors facilitated BJP MLA Jayanta Kumar [...]