Bhubaneswar: In an another operation on Monday, an Odisha Vigilance team led by 5 DSPs, 7 Inspectors, and other supporting staff launched simultaneous house searches at properties linked to Subash Chandra Panda, Deputy General Manager, Engineering (Civil), Odisha State Police Housing Welfare Corporation, Berhampur Division, following allegations of amassing disproportionate assets. The house searches are being…
Brahmapur: Researchers from the Department of Marine Sciences at Berhampur University have discovered two new species of marine nematodes off the Gopalpur coast in Ganjam district, adding to the growing record of marine biodiversity along the state’s coastline. Research scholar Suman Patra, under the guidance of department faculty member Dr Seshadev Patra, had collected specimens…
Sambalpur: The Odisha government has announced revised working hours for government offices in Sambalpur to mitigate the effects of the ongoing heatwave. Effective immediately, offices will operate from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM without a lunch break until June 15. This change aims to provide a more comfortable working environment for government employees during the…
Bhubaneswar, April 7: ‘Pakhala’, the traditional Odia dish comprising cooked rice washed or lightly fermented in water, will be the centre of attraction at the five-day ‘Pakhala Festival’ being organised by the School of Hotel Management (SHM), faculty of hospitality and tourism management of the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here from…
Ranchi, 28/6: Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to former CM Hemant Soren in money laundering case linked to land scam, as reported by PTI.Soren was arrested by the ED on January 31.
Berlin, 23/2: Germany on Friday joined the small group of countries and jurisdictions that have legalised cannabis when the Bundestag passed a law allowing individuals and voluntary associations to grow and hold limited quantities of the drug. The law passed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling three-party coalition legalises cultivating up to three plants for private…
Chilika, 15/8: INS Chilka, the Indian Navy’s premier training establishment, celebrated the 75th Anniversary of Independence Day with excitement and patriotic fervour as a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Cmde NP Pradeep, Naval Officer-in-Charge (Odisha) and Commanding Officer, INS Chilka laid a wreath at War Memorial, prior to review of the ceremonial…
New Delhi, 24/1: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) House was adjourned on Tuesday without electing mayor and deputy mayor amid a ruckus by some councillors. After the oath of aldermen and elected councillors, the House was adjourned for 15 minutes during which a number of BJP councillors started moving into the House, chanted…
Moscow, 25/6:President Vladimir Putin will take part in a meeting of Russia’s Security Council next week, state television reported on Sunday. The report by Rossiya 1 television station’s Vesti current affairs programme did not say whether the meeting would take place on Friday as normal or be brought forward.
Bhubaneswar, Jan. 11: The two-day 2 nd International Conference on Metaheuristics in Engineering and its Applications (Metasoft-2024) concluded at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here on Saturday with experts expressing the view that metaheuristic algorithms could be deployed to get quicker results in research within reasonable time with good accuracy. Metaheuristic algorithms…
