Briefs

Bhubaneswar: The Aditya Birla Group Company Hindalco has bagged the most coveted leadership award for sustainability at the recent Frost & Sullivan and TERI Sustainability 4.0 Awards 2019 in Mumbai....

New Delhi: The central government has decided to demolish 400 old flats and construct new ones in their place in Lutyens’ Delhi for Members of Parliament using construction waste, according...

Kalahandi: Workers engaged in the construction of the Biju Express Highway in Dharmagarh block stumbled upon a turtle weighing 42 k on Saturday . Forest officials, who later reached the...

Bargarh: Fire triggered by lightning engulfed a house, killing a couple who was fast asleep, at Bisipali village under Padampur police limits in Bargarh district late on Sunday. The deceased were...

Rourkela: The Government Railway Police (GRP) recovered body of an elderly man inside Tatanagar-Itwari Passenger train at Rourkela station on Sunday. Passengers spotted the body lying in a pool of...

Bhubaneswar: Ram Murti Devi Garg, mother of Odisha cadre IAS officer Krishan Kumar, passed away early Saturday morning. She was ailing for some time. She was 86 and is survived...

Sundergarh: A minor boy was killed due to lightning in Subalia village under Sundergarh Sadar police limits on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Mousum Naik (10). According to...

Jharsuguda: A youth drowned while bathing in the Kadelapita Pipilimala canal under Belapahar block of Jharsuguda district on Saturday. Sources said that Mohammad Rashid, 23, was visiting his relative’s place...

Kandhamal: Daringbadi police busted an illegal gun-manufacturing unit inside a forest near Dandima village under Daringbadi police limits in Odisha’s Kandhamal district and arrested a person. Acting on a tip-off,...

Khurda: The partly charred body of an unidentified woman was recovered from a garden near NH-15 at Balugaon in Khurda district on Saturday. Sources said some residents spotted the body...