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Malkangiri: Malkangiri district police has distributed identity cards to at least 85 senior citizens as part of efforts to protect them in the Maoist-affected district. District Superintendent of Police (SP) Jagmohan Meena on Saturday distributed the ID cards to the senior citizens in a programme organised at district police headquarters. Through these ID cards, senior […]
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Bhubaneswar: As many as 34 students of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur have qualified the JEE Advanced, results of which were published on Friday. Swayam Prakash Singh with 1430 AIR topped the list from the school. Along with him Pratikhya Ranjit, Sagar Das, Arman Atibuddhi were placed within 5,000 All India Rank (AIR). A total 19 […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday attended the NITI Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and demanded that natural calamity be included as criteria for according Special Category Status to Odisha. “Natural calamity should be included as a criteria for according Special Category Status to Odisha. As an interim […]
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Cuttack: The members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha on Saturday burnt the effigies of BJD’s Kendrapara MP Anubhav Mohanty and Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik in Cuttack demanding immediate arrest of the MP, his brother and wife for allegedly abusing a woman journalist. The leaders claimed that though an FIR has been […]
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha-based People’s Cultural Centre (PECUC), a leading voluntary organisation, was granted a Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at its coordination and management meeting held recently. The PECUC office here received a letter in this regard on Friday. The consultative status enables an organisation to actively engage with […]
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Sambalpur: Bhola Nath Shukla took over the charge of Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) on Friday. Shulka, who was received by Director (Technical/Operations) OP Singh in the presence of General Manager LN Mishra, union representatives and a large number of employees, was given the guard of honour at the company headquarters […]
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Bhubaneswar: As part of the nation-wide crackdown against illegal e-ticketing and touting activities, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Thursday seized fake e-tickets worth Rs 15 lakh and arrested at least 19 touts in this connection. The raid was conducted as part of the ‘Operation Thunder’ – an initiative […]
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Bhubaneswar: Sayantan Dhar of SAI International School has become the State Topper in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) – Advanced, 2019. He has secured All India Rank 51, the result of which was declared on Friday. Sayantan has scored 99.961 percentile in JEE Mains, held in January this year. He looks forward to pursue Computer Science […]
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Bhadrak: A young woman, who was allegedly raped by a youth of her village on Thursday, committed suicide on Friday morning to escape from public shame at Bankamunha village under Dhusuri police station in Bhadrak district. The 24-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house at Bankamunha village. According […]
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s preparedness and response to the devastating Cyclone Fani from the State to community level was world-class, said National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Member Kamal Kishore here on Thursday. Kishore opined this while attending a wrap-up meeting with the State Government under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at the State Secretariat. […]
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