Bhubaneswar: State Institute for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (SIRD & PR) has conducted a unique game-based exercise to help sarpanches understand the importance of planning and prioritisation while preparing gram panchayat development plans.The exercise was held during a two-day training programme recently, attended by 63 sarpanches from Balasore, Boudh, Jagatsinghpur, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Kendrapara, Keonjhar…
Balasore: A Bangladeshi national who served a 14-year prison sentence in connection with a dacoity case will be deported to Bangladesh on Wednesday after completion of all legal formalities, police said.The accused, identified as Md Babu Khan, 38, is a native of Hamirdi village under Bhanga police station in Faridpur district of Bangladesh.According to police,…
A waterlogged locality over the weekend Bhubaneswar: Widespread rainfall that started in the beginning of July continued to lash the state on Sunday. Places received heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in past 24 hours under the influence of Thursday’s low pressure that intensified into a depression over Bay of Bengal.Such heavy rainfall, accompanied by waterlogging,…
A family out in the rain in Esplanade on Sunday afternoon photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: The first big weather system formed over Bay of Bengal during this monsoon assumed the status of a depression on Sunday. While this system will cross the land through Odisha neighbouring coastal Bengal Met officials said parts of south…
Heavy rain is likely at isolated places in Ranchi and other districts on Monday Ranchi: The Met office on Sunday issued a yellow alert for heavy rain, thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds at isolated places in the state for four days due to a depression over the Bay of Bengal.Officials at the Ranchi Meteorological Centre…
Heavy rain is likely at isolated places in Ranchi and other districts on Monday Ranchi: The Met office on Sunday issued an orange alert for heavy rain, thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds at isolated places in the state for four days due to a depression over the Bay of Bengal.Officials at the Ranchi Meteorological Centre…
Bhubaneswar: The state govt has significantly liberalised the policy for establishment of self-financing degree and professional colleges by doing away with separate state-prescribed infrastructure and faculty requirements and further easing the financial obligations for promoters.The higher education department said the move is aimed at facilitating the setting up of higher educational institutions and aligning the…
Four ganja smugglers arrested by STF in Bhubaneswar on Friday Bhubaneswar: A BBA graduate from Keralam and three youths from Kandhamal and Balasore districts were arrested by the special task force of the state crime branch in Bhubaneswar on Friday for allegedly running an inter-state ganja trafficking racket. STF DIG Kanwar Vishal Singh said the…
An empty OPD counter at the district headquarters hospital in Balasore as doctors’ strike continued on Friday Bhubaneswar: Odisha govt has directed health authorities across the state to withhold the salaries of Odisha Medical and Health Services (OMHS) cadre doctors participating in the cease-work, and warned that contractual doctors remaining absent from duty could face…
Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India has appointed 10 senior IAS officers as Electoral Roll Observers for Odisha to oversee the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Additional chief electoral officer-cum-special secretary Sushant Kumar Mishra issued instructions assigning the officers to districts.Rajesh Prabhakar Patil will cover Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada and Jajpur ; Aravind Agrawal, Balasore,…
