2 min readBhubaneswarNov 15, 2023 09:19 AM IST The Puri Jagannath Temple Administration has announced a complete ban on the consumption of paan and gutka on the premises of the 12th-century shrine. An order issued by the temple administration said it was the moral responsibility of all to maintain the temple’s holiness. “From today onwards,…
2 min readBhubaneswarNov 19, 2023 03:17 AM IST The 12-hour bandh observed by the Koshal Rajya Milita Karjyanushtan Committee demanding a separate ‘Koshal’ state partially affected normal life in 11 districts in the western part of Odisha on Saturday. Shops and commercial establishments remained closed in most of these 11 districts. Public transportation also came…
2 min readBhubaneswarNov 22, 2023 04:36 AM IST Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday inaugurated the AIFF-FIFA Talent Academy in Bhubaneswar in the presence of Arsene Wenger, chief of global football development at FIFA. A total of 50 talented football players, including 15 from Odisha, in the Under-14 category will be selected for the academy…
2 min readBhubaneswarUpdated: Nov 23, 2023 01:53 AM IST A class four student of a state-run upper primary school in Odisha’s Jajpur district died after he was allegedly made to do sit-ups by a teacher Tuesday. The incident occurred at Suryanarayan Nodal Upper Primary School, Orali under Kuakhia police limits in Jajpur district. The deceased…
3 min readBhubaneswarUpdated: Dec 2, 2023 08:54 AM IST The Odisha transport department’s zero fatality week started with a tragedy as at least eight people were killed and 11 others were critically injured after the van in which they were travelling rammed into the rear of a parked truck on National Highway-20 in the state…
1 min readBhubaneswarDec 3, 2023 12:18 AM IST The Congress got a shot in the arm in tribal-dominated Koraput region ahead of the 2024 polls with former MP and minister Jayaram Pangi joined the party on Saturday in Bhubaneswar. Pangi, 68, an old-timer, who was elected to the Odisha assembly for the first time in…
2 min readBhubaneswarUpdated: Dec 7, 2023 02:25 AM IST Several southern and interior districts in Odisha received heavy rainfall on Wednesday as the severe cyclonic storm Michaung weakened into a well-marked low-pressure area. The depression (remnant of cyclonic storm Michaung) over northeast Telangana and adjoining south Chhattisgarh-south interior, Odisha-Coastal Andhra Pradesh moved slowly north-north-eastwards during…
1 min readBhubaneswarUpdated: Dec 8, 2023 03:13 AM IST The Income Tax (I-T) Department on Thursday continued for the second day on Thursday its searches at properties linked to Boudh Distilleries Private Limited, a liquor manufacturing firm, in Odisha and Jharkhand. Sources said the cash unearthed during the searches would exceed Rs 100 crore. The…
4 min readBhubaneswarUpdated: Dec 16, 2023 01:40 PM IST THE TOTAL amount of cash seized during the Income-Tax Department’s searches at multiple properties in Odisha linked to Baldeo Sahu and Group of Companies Ltd, a distillery firm run by family members of Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand Dhiraj Sahu, has exceeded Rs 350 crore,…
