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Bhubaneswar: A total of 189 people filed papers for the posts of mayors and chairpersons of urban local bodies in Odisha on Sunday, an SEC official said. Congress candidates Madhusmita Acharya and Giribala Behera on Sunday filed their nominations for the post of mayor in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack Municipal Corporations respectively, reported PTI. The state…
Bhubaneswar: Cochlear implant surgery has given hope to millions of children who are born deaf. The most complex and delicate ENT surgery was done at the SUM Ultimate Medicare recently on a four-year-old boy from Bargarh who could not hear since birth and did not learn to speak. The devastated parents explored different options of…
Bhubaneswar: The Railway Police seized 32 kg of gold jewellery worth Rs 16 crore from Mumbai-Bhubaneshwar Konark Express on Wednesday. “We became suspicious of the movement of the four passengers namely Hasmukh Lal Jain, Suresh Sahadev Kharey, Mahesh Bhonsale and Deepak Patel in the Konark Express from Mumbai to Bhubaneshwar. On checking their luggage, we…
Bhubaneswar: A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Thursday, the National Center for Seismology said. Though cracks were seen in some houses, there were no reports of any major damage or casualty so far, a district official said. The quake occurred at a depth of 9 km around 11.30 am, reported PTI.
Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Tuesday registered a massive victory in the Odisha panchayat elections by winning 766 of the 852 seats declared by the State Election Commission (SEC). While the BJD swept the elections, the BJP could secure only 42 Zilla Parishad (ZP) seats, followed by Congress with 37 ZP seats,…
Bhubaneswar: Eminent horticultural scientist Prof. (Dr.) Debi Prasad Ray has taken over as chancellor of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University here. Prof. (Dr.) Ray, who was till recently principal advisor to the SOA founder president Prof. (Dr.) Manojranjan Nayak, was previously two time vice-chancellor of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology…
Bhubaneswar: Offline teaching for classes 1 to 7 in Odisha resumed on Monday after nearly two years. The students wore masks, their body temperatures were checked with thermal scanners and sanitisers were applied on their hands as they entered the schools, reported PTI. The government has drawn guidelines, including a week-long rapport building exercise, aimed…
Sharad Kumar Srivastava, an officer of Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineer (IRSSE) of 1986 batch has joined East Coast Railway as additional general manager, on Monday. Prior to the new posting, Srivastava was working as principal chief signal and telecom engineer at Metro Railway, Kolkata. He also worked as divisional railway manager of Adra…
Bhubaneswar: With the guardians of 1,500 students from Odisha stranded in Ukraine expressing concern over the safety of their children, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday spoke to union home minister Amit Shah and urged him to ensure safe evacuation of students and labourers from the state. Patnaik called up Shah in the morning after…
Bhawanipatna: Four persons including three women were killed and seven others of a marriage party injured as their SUV hit a truck in Odisha’s Kalahandi district. The accident took place late on Monday night near Turlakhaman on National Highway 217 under Kesinga police station jurisdiction, reported PTI. The 11 members of the marriage party were…
