Final: Primary schools to reopen from Jan 3
Clearing the confusion over the reopening of primary schools from January 3 next, School and Mass Education Department Secretary Satyabrata Sahu has said the decision of the State Government to reopen the schools would remain unchanged. Offline classes for students of Classes-I to V would resume from January 3. A meeting...
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Religious places to be shut from today
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Leopard skin seized in Khordha; 1 held
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Manganese-laden truck seized; driver at large
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CSOs hail move to open primary schools
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Puri-Rameshwar road safe haven for burglars
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BJP leader’s house robbed at gunpoint
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Children to be vaccinated within a month
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IN BRIEF
ELEPHANTS WREAK HAVOC IN BBSR SLUM Bhubaneswar: Three elephants strayed into the Saraswati slum in Sailashree Vihar of the city on Wednesday night and wreaked havoc by damaging several houses and many parked vehicles. They went on a rampage at around 10 pm. A local also sustained injuries while trying to...
BJD leader Mohanty no more
Brajrajnagar BJD MLA and former State Assembly Speaker Kishore Mohanty passed away on Thursday evening at a private hospital in Jharsuguda. He was 62. He suffered a cardiac arrest earlier, following which he was admitted to the hospital. Mohanty was Assembly Speaker from 2007 to 2009. He was the Government Chief Whip...
5 more Omicron cases in State; tally now 14
As many as five more persons have tested positive for the Omicron variant of Covid-19, taking the total tally to 14 in the State, said the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) on Thursday. Meanwhile, the State registered 225 new Covid-19 positive cases in 22 districts and the State pool on the...
AIIMS-B Centre for Clinical Trials
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has nominated AIIMS Bhubaneswar as an Advanced Centre for Clinical Trials in the Eastern region. ICMR had called for an expression of interest from AIIMS Bhubaneswar to apply for it. This has added another success story for the city AIIMS. Once the process gets completed,...
Justice demanded for rape victim
A dawn-to-dusk bandh in Jeypore called by the BJP on Thursday demanding speedy justice for a gang-rape victim was successful. The woman was gang-raped on December 25 with her husband being detained at gunpoint at Bramhani Gaon under the Jeypore Sadar police limits. A case has been registered by the Mahila...
‘No Missionaries inmate should suffer’
After the Centre has blocked funding for the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday directed the district Collectors of the State to ensure that no inmate of the nonprofit Missionary organisations suffer from any kind of distress. In a letter, the CM asked the Collectors...
OPTCL MD’s arbitrary functioning resented
The cadre engineers of Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited (OPTCL) are holding a silent protest from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm every day before the corporation’s headquarters from Wednesday. The Odisha Power Transmission Engineers' Association in a protest letter to the Managing Director said the engineers of OPTCL are deeply aggrieved...
