Briefs

Bhubaneswar: The Council for Higher Secondary Examination (CHSE) has extended the deadline for ex-regular students to fill-up their forms for the Plus-II Arts, Science and Commerce exams to be held from the first week of March. The…

Nayagarh: The Sadar Police in Odisha’s Nayagarh district are on the hunt for the miscreants, who had brutally assaulted a student of SCS College, Puri, near his village Parbatipur under Fetegarh police limits late on Wednesday. According…

Nayagarh: The Vigilance sleuths on Thursday raided the houses and office of the executive engineer, minor irrigation project, Binay Subuddhi for allegedly accumulating property disproportionate to his known sources of income. The…

Sambalpur: Tension ran high in Gangadhar Meher University campus in Sambalpur town on Thursday after students of the Plus Two Junior College locked up the main gate and sat on a dharna in protest against transfer of eight lecturers. One…

The New Delhi-bound Duronto Express from Bhubaneswar will leave at 1.30 pm instead of 7.40 am on Wednesday, the East Coast Railway said in a statement. It said the departure timing has been postponed due to the late arrival of the…

Puri: Two youths from Uttar Pradesh reportedly drowned while taking bath in the sea here on Tuesday. According to sources, some youths from other states had come to Bhubaneswar on Monday to appear for a test at the 120 Infantry Battalion…

Bhubaneswar: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials seized 400 packets of foreign brand cigarettes at Biju Patnaik International Airport here on Tuesday. Acting on a tip off, the DRI officials detained two passengers from…

Koraput: Hundreds of employees of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) at Sunabeda in Koraput district on Monday began an indefinite demonstration over wage revision and other demands. Over 20,000 employees of all the nine units of HAL across…

Pope Francis canonised a nun from Kerala, Sister Mariam Thresia, and four others as Saints at a grand ceremony in Vatican City on Sunday. Sister Thresia, who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family in Thrissur, Kerala in…

Cuttack: Dreaded criminal Ajay Sahu alias ‘Jitu’ was arrested on Sunday following an exchange of fire with police at Choudwar. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Choudwar police and the Special Squad of Commissionerate Police raided the…