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Bhubaneswar: Board of Secondary Education, Odisha has announced an extension of the deadline for submitting application forms for the upcoming 2024 Higher School Certificate (HSC) and State Open School Certificate (SOSC) examinations. The new deadline for online application submissions is now October 5, 2023. This...

Bhubaneswar: AIIMS Bhubaneswar is going to start Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HPSCT) in the Medical Oncology/Hematology department for needy children suffering from cancer. Speaking at a special function organised to create awareness about childhood cancer, AIIMS Bhubaneswar Executive Director Dr. Ashutosh Biswas said, AIIMS Bhubaneswar...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Saturday forecast very heavy rainfall for Odisha over the next three days as the low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a well-marked system. Weather scientist Umashankar Dash of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar said that...

Bhubaneswar: Members of the Opposition BJP in Odisha Saturday created a ruckus in the House forcing Speaker Pramila Mallick to adjourn the House at 10.31 hours till 16.00 hours. As soon as the House assembled for Question Hour and the Mallik took her seat, opposition...

Bhubaneswar/ Bolangir: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police's crime branch has arrested a wildlife smuggler and rescued a live pangolin from him, an official said Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, an STF team with the help of Bolangir forest division officials Friday conducted...

Cuttack: The ASI and the managing committee of the Jagannath Temple in Puri will collaborate for the conservation work of the Ratna Bhandar or the treasury inside the 12th-century shrine, the Orissa High Court said Friday. On the plea for making an inventory of the...

Bhubaneswar: With the IMD forecasting heavy rainfall across Odisha from Saturday following the formation of a low pressure in the Bay of Bengal, the state government has braced itself to tackle any situation arising out of it. The low-pressure area (LOPAR) now lies over northeast...

Bhubaneswar: The low-pressure area over the northeast and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal and the associated cyclonic circulation persists. It is likely to become a well-marked low-pressure area and move northwestwards towards north Odisha and adjoining West Bengal coasts over next 48 hours, informed IMD...

Cuttack: A fire broke out at a cloth shop at Choudhury Bazaar here Friday morning, police said. The fire, which was first spotted on the ground floor of the three-storey building, later spread to two other floors, a fire official said, adding there were no...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 16,372 people have died in various natural calamities in Odisha in the last five years, Disaster Management Minister Sudam Marndi informed the assembly Thursday. In reply to a question from BJP MLA Kusum Tete, Marndi said 16,372 people have died in...