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Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced the launch of a WhatsApp-based system to facilitate tax payments with an aim to simplify access to essential services for residents of the city. The announcement was…
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Raipur: Two Maoists, both women, were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, the police said on Thursday. The two were killed in an encounter that began on Wednesday night, officials said. …
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Bhubaneswar: An accountant in the Block Education Office (BEO) at Kujanga in Jagatsinghpur district was apprehended by Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Thursday for allegedly taking Rs 5000 bribe from a teacher. According to a Vigilance…
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Keonjhar: In a daring daylight heist, armed robbers looted a jewellery shop at Harichandanpur bazaar in Odisha’s Keonjhar district on Wednesday.Odisha food Armed with guns and machetes, the robbers opened fire in the air to terrorise…
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Qingdao (China): In a firm stand against efforts to dilute India’s concerns about terrorism, defence minister Rajnath Singh refused to sign a joint statement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting on…
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Bhubaneswar: A man sustained critical burn injuries after a major fire broke out at the warehouse of Maa Tarini Bastralaya, a prominent garment outlet in Bhubaneswar. While several others trapped in the building were rescued after the…
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Puri: With just a day left for the annual Rath Jatra in Odisha’s Puri, devotees from across the country and abroad have started arriving at the pilgrim town to witness the grand event. Devotees as well as servitors of the 12th century…
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Puri: Thousands of devotees thronged Odisha’s pilgrim town of Puri on Thursday to witness Nabajouban Darshan of the sibling deities at Shree Jagannath temple. Huge rush of devotees was witnessed at the 12th century shrine since morning…
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by Saurabh Thukral & Damini Patnaik Āhe Nīla Śaila, prabala matta barāṇa / modūradāsa, tumanedakaraṇa… These lines from the poem of a renowned Odia poet of the 17th Century, Bhakta Salabega, which roughly translates as O Blue…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government’s Odia Language, Literature, and Culture Department observed Samvidhan Hatya Diwas at the local railway auditorium in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, who described the 50th anniversary…
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