The Latest Breaking News from BHUBANESWAR

BHUBANESWAR: Uncertainty continued over the Shital Sasthi rituals of Lord Lingaraj following a conflict between priests of Lingaraj and Kapileswar temples on Saturday. Khurda district administration and the chief administration officer of Lingaraj Temple administration continued their efforts to resolve the issues among the priests for smooth conduct of the…

BHUBANESWAR: BJP’s Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi on Saturday said that the Supreme Court ruling on the heritage corridor project was a victory for those concerned with the safety of Jagannath Temple. She said that the SC clearly defined the boundary/limits within which the state government will have to undertake the…

Bhubaneswar: The Nabarangpur district administration has joined hands with Singapore-based Codeversity.club to bring quality coding education to 30,000 tribal students absolutely free of cost. The district administration launched Mission Nabrangpur Codes - an initiative to bring coding to tribal students of classes 9 and 10 in 183 schools. Students from…

BHUBANESWAR: The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch on Saturday seized 10 quintals of ganja from Tamando, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar and arrested one person. The contraband seizure comes a day after 50 quintals of marijuana, highest quantity so far in a single raid, was seized by STF…

BHUBANESWAR: The higher education department has decided to engage retired staff for a certain period in state public universities to tide over the problem of shortage of non-teaching staff.

BHUBANESWAR: Around 58,000 students will appear for the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE)-2022 from July 4 to July 8. The Special OJEE/second OJEE will be conducted separately in September after a gap of two years. It was merged with OJEE in the last two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

BHUBANESWAR: The state vigilance directorate on Wednesday arrested a police officer, Malaya Kishore Nayak, for allegedly accepting Rs 30,000 bribe from a stone quarry owner in Dhenkanal district to allow him to do business smoothly. Nayak, who is the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Hindol, was caught red-handed while accepting…

BHUBANESWAR: The bodies of four members of an Odia family, who died in a plane crash in Nepal on Sunday, have been identified by their relatives. They have been brought to Kathmandu from the crash site and kept at a morgue in a hospital there. Ashok Kumar Tripathy, his wife…

NAGPUR: Vedika Pal kept the Nagpur flag flying high at the national level chess championship which concluded in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Of the 36 medals on offer in the 10th National School Chess Championship, the nine-year-old Vedika became the only city master to register a podium finish.