Two minor girls gangraped in Bhubaneswar after being abducted 

Bhubaneawar, January 17: Two minor girls aged 12 and 14 years were allegedly gang raped near Patia railway station here on Monday night. The heinous crime came to the fore after their parents on registered a complaint with the GRP on Tuesday, with the help of Childline. According to the complaint, the two survivors live […]

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Adani Group plans to set up two medical colleges in Odisha

Bhubaneswar, January 17: The Gautam Adani-led Adani Group has proposed to set up two medical colleges in Bhadrak and Rayagada in the State to upgrade medical care facilities at the district level. The company, which has a port and logistics business in the State, plans to set up medical colleges in Bhadrak in the first […]

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BJD MPs meet Railways Minister Vaishnaw, seek passenger services on Paradip-Haridaspur line

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, December 16: A delegation of BJD MPs from Rajya Sabha on Friday met Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in New Delhi and urged him to start passenger services on Paradip-Haridaspur railway line for the benefit of the people of Kendrapara district. The MPs including Sasmit Patra, Amar Patnaik, Sujeet Kumar, Sulata Deo, Mamata Mahanta […]

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Any chance of establishing Orissa High Court bench at Sambalpur lost with conduct of agitating lawyers, now: Supreme Court

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, December 14: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took a dim view of the unruly agitation carried out by lawyers in Samblapur who have been demanding a permanent bench of the Orissa High Court in the district and noted that even if there was some possibility, that is lost now with their conduct. “There […]

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Odisha: Train services to be affected due to Talcher-Angul doubling work

Bhubaneawar, December 10: In order to complete the ongoing doubling work between Talcher Road and Angul in Bhubaneswar/Cuttack-Angul-Sambalpur Railway Route of East Coast Railway (ECoR) at the earliest, the ECoR has decided to cancel, divert and control the services of a few trains in the route. As per the ECoR release, Rourkela-Bhubaneswar-Rourkela Super Fast Inter […]

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Odisha: Govt to conduct internal assessment of Aahaar Centres

Bhubaneswar, November 30: The State Government has decided t0 conduct internal assessment of all the Aahaar Centres. These centres provide cooked hot meals – steamed rice and dalma- to the poor and needy people at the cost of Rs 5 in urban areas across Odisha. “As part of the Community participation agenda, operation and management […]

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Odisha gets maiden advanced diagnostic centre for fungi at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar  

Bhubaneswar, November 25: The Advanced Molecular and Diagnostic Research Centre for Fungi, first of its kind laboratory in eastern India, was inaugurated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. The centre was set up by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in Department of Microbiology. It will act as a referral […]

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Roop Narayan Sunkar new ECoR GM

Bhubaneawar, November 7: Senior Indian Railway Service of Engineering (IRSE) officer Roop Narayan Sunkar joined in East Coast Railway as General Manager here on Monday. Prior to the new posting, the 1985-batch IRSE officer Sunkar was working as Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) of South East Central Railway (SECR) at Bilaspur. He also worked as Chief […]

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BJP’s Suryabanshi Suraj defeats BJD to retain Dhamnagar seat; Naveen says ‘it was expected’

Bhubaneawar, November 6: BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj won the Dhamnagar Assembly bypoll in against his nearest rival, Abanti Das of the ruling BJD by 9,881 votes on Sunday. Suraj, the son of late MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi, whose demise necessitated the by-elections, got 80,351 votes, while Das secured 70,470 votes for the Dhamnagar bypoll in […]

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