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Deputy CM KV Singh Deo in Paradip Bhubaneswar: Political manoeuvring ahead of Monday’s Rajya Sabha elections in Odisha reached a flashpoint in faraway Bengaluru with police arresting four men for allegedly trying to bribe Odisha Congress MLAs to vote in favour of BJP, Karnataka deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar said on Sunday, a charge…
Teacher job aspirants stage protest in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: Teacher job aspirants held a dharna here on Monday, demanding filling of all vacant teaching positions in high schools and Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas.Odisha School Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) last year notified recruitment for over 15,000 vacancies for elementary teachers, MLE teachers, special educator teachers, and so on,…
Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Saturday dedicated the newly commissioned Sulphuric Acid Plant–3 (SAP–III) at the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) unit in Paradeep, Odisha, to the nation. Shah said the Ministry of Cooperation and the Odisha government would work together to improve rural…
Jamie Maclaren (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) KOLKATA: Jamie Maclaren smashed four goals — including a first-half hat-trick — as Mohun Bagan SG hammered Odisha FC 5-1 at the Salt Lake Stadium on Friday to stay perfect in their ISL campaign.The in-form Maclaren started the demolition job for Sergio Lobera’s defending champions and league leaders against the…
JDU workers protest against Nitish Kumar filing his nomination for Rajya Sabha, outside the CM’s residence in Patna on Thursday NEW DELHI: As the nomination process for Rajya Sabha elections spread across 10 states ended on Thursday, moves for new political alignments, including a rare BJD-Congress tie-up in Odisha and unity of BJP’s rivals in…
KENDRAPADA: A 23-year-old woman’s boyfriend was among two persons held for allegedly raping her and then throwing her from the fourth floor of a house in Jagatsinghpur district, early on Monday.The boyfriend is aged 31 while the other accused, a resident of Dhanbad in Jharkhand, who works in a private company in Paradip, is 24…
Representative image (File photo) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted the Calcutta HC chief justice to requisition judicial officers from neighbouring Jharkhand and Odisha to help such officers in West Bengal in expeditiously scrutinising and determining validity of claims of voters falling under ‘logical discrepancy’ or ‘unmapped’ categories of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has permitted the Calcutta High Court to deploy additional judicial officers, including from Jharkhand and Odisha, to expedite scrutiny of voter inclusion claims in West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The court took note of the Calcutta HC Chief Justice’s assessment that despite assigning 294 serving…
Early mornings at Puri’s Blue Flag Beach are calm and enchanting. Gentle waves wash over the golden sands as the first rays of sunlight stretch across the horizon. In a recently shared video, tiny sea creatures could be seen along the shoreline. The clip captures plough snails slowly moving with the rhythm of the tides….
AI-generated representational image. BERHAMPUR: An 18-year-old youth was arrested in Berhampur on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping and attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl in Kandhamal district’s forest area.The incident occurred on Sunday when two persons abducted the minor from a village pond and took her to a nearby forest. The accused and his accomplice allegedly…
