Bhubaneswar: 26/4/23:The Odisha Government is fully prepared to deal with possible summer cyclones, informed Revenue & Disaster Management Minister Pramila Mallik on Wednesday. Briefing the media about measures to be taken to face the possible summer cyclones, the Minister said that 24×7 Control Rooms will start functioning in the department and districts from May 1. Mallik said that a Class ...

Bhubaneswar:26/4/23:  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today dedicated another 328 transformed high schools in 5 districts of the state on the second day of the third phase of the 5T High School Transformation Programme. The 5T schools inaugurated today include 100 high schools in Bolangir district, 61 in Sambalpur district, 53 in Puri district, 56 in Kendrapada district and 58 ...

Bhubaneswar:26/4/23:The third Education Working Group meeting under G20 kicked off today in Bhubaneswar, Odisha with a seminar on ‘Building Capacities for Lifelong Learning in the context of Future of Work’ at CSIR-IMMT. The meeting is a continuation of the previous two working group meetings held in Chennai and Amritsar earlier, aimed at discussing and implementing innovative ideas and policies to ...

Bhubaneswar 25/4/23: Odisha today reported as many as 393 fresh COVID-19 cases while a total of 5421 samples were tested yesterday. Sundargarh district registered highest 125 new infections, followed by Sambalpur (71) and Cuttack (65).With this, the number of active COVID cases in the state stood at 3086. Below are district-wise figures of the new cases. 1. Angul: 2 2. ...

Bhubaneswar:25/4/23: In a bid to empower and engage at least 100 Realtors of Bhubaneswar, Realtor Association of Odisha (ORA) held a second edition panel discussion recently in the State Capital. The event, which was organised at Padmaja Premium in Chandrashekharpur on April 20, aimed at a discussion between developers and realtors to elevate builder-realtors relationship which ultimately benefits buyers. Organised ...

Bhubaneswar: 25/4/23:Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is preventable and curable, said Director Public Health, Dr Niranjan Mishra speaking on the occasion of World Malaria Day. Dr Mishra said that Odisha was once the highest contributor to malaria; the State was contributing 25% of ...

Cuttack: 25/4/23:Prices of dairy products will increase from May 1 after the price of milk has been hiked by various diary firms. Cuttack district dairy product traders Association informed that decision to hike the price of dairy products has been taken after OMFED increased the milk price. Besides, the traders association said another major reason for the skyrocketing prices of ...

Bhubaneswar:25/4/23:  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the third phase of the 5T High School Transformation programme today. On the first day of this phase, the Chief Minister dedicated 357 transformed high schools in 4 districts of the state today. The transformed schools includes 106 high schools in Ganjam district, 87 in Angul, 57 in Keonjhar and 107 in Jagatsinghpur. ...

Bhubaneswar:24/4/23: A delegation from Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday met Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)  requesting no meeting in Jharsuguda during the election process. Seeking postponement of a proposed meeting of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes member Anant Nayak in Jharsuguda, the BJD leaders apprised the CEO thatNayak’s convention will violate the model code of conduct which is in ...

Bhubaneswar:24/4/23: Railway Board Member (Infrastructure) Roop Narayan Sunkar today reviewed the performance of East Coast Railway (ECoR) with respect to infrastructural development in this region. To improve both the freight traffic and passenger traffic movement, Sunkar stressed upon joint cooperation and mutual understanding between various agencies of the central and state governments and with stakeholders like industries, ports and corporate ...