Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Actor-director Chittaranjan Tripathy, who hails from Odisha, was on Thursday appointed as the director of National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. A native of Chandbali in Bhadrak district, he will be the first Odia to…
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Bhubaneswar: Manaswini Maharana, a native of Ganjam’s Panibandha village won a gold medal in the Yachting Association of India’s (YAI) Senior National Sailing Championship, competing in the RX women’s category, becoming the first woman in…
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Kendrapada: A 28-year-old doctor was injured and his car badly damaged in an explosion after the vehicle ran over firecrackers spread on the road at a village in Odisha’s Kendrapada district on Thursday. The mishap took place when the…
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Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday suspended two more youth leaders from Odisha’s Angul for anti-party activities. Those suspended are Biju Yuba Janata Dal’s (BYJD) Angul district general secretary Prasanna Kumar Sahu…
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Bhubaneswar: Noted disability rights activist Jitendra K Biswal has voiced concern over the appointment of Director SSEPD Bratati Harichandan as the new State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (SCPD) and urged Chief Minister…
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday inaugurated the BPUT Tech Carnival-2023 at IMMT Auditorium in Odisha capital. Addressing the students and dignitaries, the CM said that technology is the pivot of our future. “Our…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) on Thursday signed an MoU with Hindalco Industries for providing long -term raw material linkage for its project at Kansariguda in Rayagada district. OMC MD Balwant Singh and Hindalco MD…
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Bhubaneswar: The first intra-region power quiz was organised by NTPC Limited, Eastern Region-II at Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. As many as 11 teams from Talcher-Kaniha, Talcher Thermal, Bongaigaon, Darlipalli and North Karanpura…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government announced that leading IT MNC Accenture plans to set up its global delivery facility in Bhubaneswar. A delegation led by, Country Managing Director, Accenture in India, Ajay Vij met Chief Minister…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has hiked the Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) payable to unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and highly skilled categories of employees in all 89 scheduled employments in the state. A notification…
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