Centre rushes teams to Odisha & 5 other States for COVID-19 control and containment measures

Bhubaneswar, July 2: The Central Government on Saturday deputed multi-disciplinary teams to Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur in view of the increased number of COVID-19 cases being reported by these States. The team to Odisha will be led by Dr A Dan, Public Health Specialist AIIH & PH while for Manipur it […]

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Odisha gets 15 Fast Track Special Courts to deal with POCSO & rape cases

Cuttack, July 1: Chief Justice of Orissa High Court Justice S. Muralidhar on Thursday inaugurated 15 Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) dealing with cases under POCSO Act and rape cases through virtual mode. The courts were opened in Cuttack, Balasore, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kalahandi, Kendrapara, Khurda, Koraput, Kandhamal, Rayagada and Sambalpur. Further, […]

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COVID-19: Odisha extends partial lockdown till July 16; Night curfew to continue

Bhubaneswar, June 30: As was widely anticipated, the Odisha Government on Wednesday extended the ongoing partial lockdown, imposed to contain the spread of Covid infection in the State, till 6 AM of July 16. Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra said that night curfew will continue in the entire State from 6 PM to 6 AM. […]

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Special train between Khurda Road-Udhna in Surat from July 5

Bhubaneswar, June 30: One pair of special trains will run between Khurda Road and Udhna (near Surat) in Gujrat from July 5 to avoid heavy wait lists in western India bound regular trains. According to an East Coast Railway (ECoR) statement, (08585/08586) Khurda Road-Udhna-Khurda Road Special via Vizianagaram and Titilagarh will leave Khurda Road at […]

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Vedanta dedicates second COVID Hospital in Odisha’s Deogarh district

Bhubaneswar, June 29: Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has dedicated second COVID facility to the people of Odisha, developed at Eklavya Model Residential School, in Deogarh. With the new COVID facility at Deogarh, and a similar one at Kalahandi, Vedanta has added 300 critical care beds to bolster Odisha’s […]

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Senior Indian Postal officer Suvendu Swain assumes charge as new CPMG, Odisha

Bhubaneswar, June 29: Suvendu Swain, an officer from Indian Postal Services of 1990 batch assumed the charge of Chief Postmaster General (CPMG), Odisha Postal Circle on Monday. Swain has served the Department in different States namely Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, North East, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in different capacities before being […]

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Prof Bansidhar Majhi appointed VSSUT Vice Chancellor

Bhubaneswar, June 28: Prof Bansidhar Majhi has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla. Currently, Majhi is working as Director, IIITDM, Kancheepuram in Chennai. Governor and Chancellor of Universities Prof Ganeshi Lal appointed Majhi as the VSSUT VC for a period of three years. “In exercise […]

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New Generation Agni P Ballistic Missile fight tested successfully off Odisha coast

Balasore, June 28: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested a New Generation Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile Agni P from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha in Balasore at 10.55 AM on Tuesday. Various telemetry and radar stations positioned along the eastern coast tracked and monitored the missile. […]

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English Support Launches Webinar Series On Professional & Proficiency Development

Bhubaneswar: A six-month-long webinar series on Professional & Proficiency Development organised by English Support Mission (ESM), a forum committed to equipping Rural Youth with English skills to enable them to keep pace with their urban counterparts, was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor of Kalahandi University, Prof Sanjay Kumar Satapathy, on Sunday. The webinar series has been categorized: […]

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Webinar held on ‘Mishra Shala Sri Ganesh: A Museum of Dying Tradition’

Cuttack, June 27: A webinar was held on ‘Mishra Shala Sri Ganesh’ – a museum of dying tradition -recently with distinguished persons like senior administrators, intellectuals, artists and litterateurs on its panel of guests. ‘Mishra Shala Sri Ganesh’ is a museum of fanciful made-up wooden memorabilia of the missing lifestyle of bygone days. “When we […]

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