Odisha

Cuttack: One person was killed and three, including a woman, were injured after being struck by lightning in Cuttack district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Santosh Behera (29),...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the admission for the 2020-21 academic session, the Odisha government will seek opinion of all state-run universities and autonomous colleges in the state. A high-level meeting presided...

Bhubaneswar: UNESCO has awarded "Tsunami Ready" certificates to two coastal villages in Odisha for their greater preparedness to face a tsunami disaster. The two villages — Venkatraipur of Rangeilunda block...

New Delhi: Girish Chandra Murmu, the former LG of Jammu and Kashmir, took oath as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday. President...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will "thoroughly deliberate" on the implementation of the New Education Policy (NEP)-2020 in the state, Higher Education Minister Arun Kumar Sahu said. The minister said that...

Berhampur: To identify COVID-19 patients, Ganjam district administration began the fifth-phase of health screening in urban areas of the district on Saturday. Informing the media, Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange...

Bhadrak: The outpatient department (OPD) of the district headquarters hospital in Odisha’s Bhadrak district was closed for 48 hours from Saturday. According to the Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO), the...

Jharsuguda: As the harvest festival of Western Odisha ‘Nuakhai’ is round the corner, it seems the celebration is likely to be low-key amid COVID-19 pandemic. The district administration has denied...

Burla: The Hirakud dam authorities on Saturday opened one more gate of the dam to release floodwaters. By 9 am, the discharge and inflow of the floodwaters from eight gates...

Bhubaneswar: As Odisha continues to report more than 1,000 fresh COVID-19 cases daily since July 21, it seems the spread of the virus is at its peak in the state...