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,…
A tazia procession on Muharram in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: Muslims across Odisha on Friday observed Muharram with fasts, special prayers, tazia processions and events like “walk on fire”, besides community meals. Police had made elaborate arrangements for the peaceful observation of the day.The community in the city observed the day in a very low-key manner, mostly…
A Tazia procession on Muharram in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: Muslims across Odisha on Friday observed Muharram with fasts, special prayers, Tazia processions and events like “walk on fire”, besides community meals. Police had made elaborate arrangements for the peaceful observation of the day.The community in the city observed the day in a very low-key manner, mostly…
The IIT Bhubaneswar researchers Bhubaneswar: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar have developed a portable device that can rapidly and accurately detect arsenic contamination in drinking water, offering a potential solution to a major public health challenge.The handheld device, named ArsenSafe, has been developed by Nano Semic, a startup led by faculty members…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha police have revived the practice of district-level inspections by senior IPS officers, a system that had been shelved since 2019.According to an order issued by the state police headquarters on June 6, 15 officers in the ranks of DGP, ADGP and IGP have been tasked with inspecting police-related activities in 17 districts starting…
Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi at the public meeting in Baripada on Monday Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday unveiled 39 projects worth over Rs 430 crore in Mayurbhanj, including inauguration of a 650-bed teaching hospital at Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College in Baripada, built at a cost of Rs 258 crore.The rollout…
CM Mohan Charan Majhi felicitates students at the VC conference in Bhubaneswar on Sunday Bhubaneswar: Governor and chancellor of universities, Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati, called upon universities to evolve into globally competitive, socially responsible and technologically advanced institutions while remaining rooted to Indian values.Inaugurating the two-day vice-chancellors’ conference on Sunday, he said universities are centres…
Bhubaneswar: The Indian Meterological Department (IMD) has requested the Odisha govt to allot land for installation of six additional High Wind Speed Recorders (HWSRs) in the state’s coastal belt. The proposed installations are aimed at capturing extreme wind speeds, particularly during cyclones, and improving the accuracy of cyclone-related observations, said IMD Bhubaneswar director Manorama Mohanty.Once…
