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Bhubaneswar: Amid a severe shortage of coal at power plants across the country and a looming power crisis, Odisha Chief Secretary Suresh Mahapatra on Saturday assured that there was no...

Koraput: As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, schools closed and classes went online, 36-year-old Jyoshnarani Padhi of Pujariput village in Odisha’s Koraput district watched her son attend online classes from home....

Bhubaneswar: The inauguration of a veterinary hospital by the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University on the outskirts of Odisha’s capital on Thursday saw a unique visitor. A...

Bhubaneswar: While the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a fall in day temperature from Sunday with southerly and south-easterly winds penetrating Odisha, the Bay of Bengal is also likely...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed the need to introduce local languages in courts. "We need to encourage local languages in courts. This will not only increase...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has confirmed the season's first sunstroke death in the state, which has been reeling under a severe heatwave for the past few weeks. The victim, identified...

Bhubaneswar: The heatwave currently sweeping Odisha and other parts of India has been unbearable. People are coping with it in various ways: staying indoors during the day, with cool summer...

Bhubaneswar: A climate change expert has said that what was more worrying about the current heatwave roiling India was the long duration of the severe wave than the high temperatures....

Kabul: In a ghastly attack on hundreds of worshippers who had gathered for prayers on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramzan, a powerful explosion ripped through a...

Johannesburg: There are fears of a fifth COVID-19 wave in South Africa earlier than expected, driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron. There has been a sustained rise...