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Bhubaneswar: In the wake of the fire at an exam coaching centre in Surat in which 22 students died, the Odisha Fire Services Department on Monday started inspecting fire safety compliance in coaching centres in capital city Bhubaneswar and its neighbouring Cuttack. Sources said at least 14 private coaching institutes underwent surprise inspection by the […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Indian Railways on Friday said that a bi-weekly summer special train would be run between Secunderabad and Bhubaneswar from June 1 to 30 to handle the extra rush of passengers during the season. The proposed Secunderabad-Bhubaneswar (02784) bi-weekly Summer Special will leave Secunderabad on every Saturday and Wednesdays at 12.30 pm between June […]
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Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, on Thursday, snapped its 21-year-long relationship with the Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD). IAS officer-turned-politician Aparajita Sarangi is now the MP of Bhubaneswar. She defeated former Mumbai Commissioner of Police and BJD nominee Arup Patnaik by over 23,000 votes. Bhubaneswar has been the citadel of the ruling […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of Railways has decided to run one more special train between Bhubaneswar and Krishnarajpuram (Bangalore) on Saturday (May 18) for the stranded passengers due to cancellation of trains during Cyclone Fani. The Bhubaneswar-Krishnarajpuram Special Train (06562) will leave Bhubaneswar at 10 pm on Saturday and will reach at Krishnarajpuram at 10.50 pm […]
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Bhubaneswar: Subsidised cooked food canteens Aahar, which were closed since the cyclone Fani devastated the capital city of Bhubaneswar on May 3, resumed services from Wednesday. The service was stopped as the centralised kitchen at Nakhara suffered a massive damage due to the summertime cyclone so also some canteens in the city. The Aahar scheme […]
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Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) will run special train from Bhubaneswar to Krishnarajapuram in Bangalore on May 15 for passengers affected by cancellation of trains due to cyclone Fani. The ECoR has suspended services of at least 103 trains due to the cyclone that hit the Odisha coast near Puri on May 3 keeping […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started distributing the Chief Minister’s Special Assistance for victims of very severe cyclonic storm Fani, which barrelled through the eastern coast in Odisha near Puri on Friday leaving at least 34 people reportedly dead. With nearly 200 kmph wind storms and incessant rains, the storm has brought down […]
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His contribution in the formation of Odisha as a State taking the people’s mother tongue, Odia, into consideration, cannot be described in words, and perhaps State Government knowingly named a park in Pokhariput area in Bhubaneswar after him to pay honour to the towering personality. The legend, who was born in 1848, had a lot […]
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Bhubaneswar: The 32nd anniversary of the Rock Pebbles, a peer-reviewed journal, held here recently with a huge number of litterateurs and practitioners of the art of poetry from across the country attending the event. Internationally reputed poet Dr Anwar Ghani from Iraq was felicitated on the occasion. “A poet lives within every human being. If […]
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Today is World Heritage Day. And Bhubaneswar, particularly the Old Town are are dotted with beautiful ancient temples which lend the city its distinct identity. Bhubaneswar is accredited of housing the highest density of national monuments in the country with an astounding 27 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) protected monuments. Whether it is the 11th […]
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