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Union minister of state for tribal affairs, Bisweswar Tudu, on Monday laid the foundations for two Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS)s in Kandhamal and Gajapati districts.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inaugurated two industrial projects and laid the foundation for 10 more projects. These projects include a logistics park, two ethanol plants, a mineral bonification expansion project and a cement manufacturing unit, among others.

The sudden spike in Covid-19 cases and closure of the Jagannath Temple have led to large-scale cancellation of hotel bookings in Puri. This has also coincided with refusal by many hotels to refund the booking amount to tourists.

Bhubaneswar: The state Crime Branch has decided to send a three-member team to West Bengal on Tuesday to investigate the links of two drug smugglers from Odisha, who were arrested by the neighbouring state’s police on charges of trafficking heroin, on Monday. TNN

The State Election Commission (SEC) is likely to announce dates for the three-tier panchayat elections within a day or two, sources said.

Odisha topped the charts with 51 medals, followed by Maharashtra (30) and Kerala (25) at the IndiaSkills 2021 Nationals organised by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in New Delhi from January 7 to 9.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for two barrages on Ib river in Kopsingha and Kudabanga blocks in Sundargarh district through video conferencing on Monday.

The higher education department on Monday issued a guideline for undertaking minor repair/renovation/maintenance work of college infrastructure/facilities with no requirement of tender or quotation up to Rs 15,000.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a yellow warning for heavy rainfall in the districts of Bargarh, Sambalpur, Deogarh, and Sonepur on Tuesday.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will identify suitable spots for vegetable markets where the public can maintain social distancing to prevent crowding at existing marketplaces amid the surge in Covid cases.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday virtually laid the foundation stone of two hotels in Puri and Bhubaneswar.While the Swosti Group will set up a five-star premium luxury beach resort, facing the sea in Puri, Prachi Resorts Pvt Ltd will build a four-star hotel in Khandagiri here.

Technical institutions in the state are turning into Covid-19 hotspots with many students testing positive in the last couple of days. At least 49 engineering students at a private technical college in Rayagada and 13 at Fakir Mohan Medical College in Balasore tested positive on Monday.

Odisha has placed orders with TATA Medical and Diagnostics (TATA MD) for five lakh OmiSure RT-PCR tests which can directly detect Omicron variant of Covid-19 without going through the lengthy process of genome sequencing.

The city corporation plans to earn 13 crore per year as user charge on door-to-door garbage collection.Though the money will help the civic body to provide better services to residents, it will cover only a fraction of fund spent for collection and disposal of waste.

More than 30 people from various organisations conducted sit-in at the Pollachi sub-collector office on Monday, demanding police to book the non–dalit landlord, who was accused of instructing his employees to assault a dalit youth at Anaimalai, under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities)

Besides threat from humans, elephants face a new adversary – plastics.While driving on Marudhamalai Hill Road on Sunday, founder-president of Coimbatore Wildlife Conservation Trust (CWCT), an NGO, T Muruganandam found dung of an elephant on the road.

The city corporation has again decided to levy charges for door-to-door garbage collection.The civic body had first framed bylaws in 2016 to collect user fee for solid waste management. It started collecting the fee in 2017, but put it on hold shortly.

Banumathi Kalyanaraman, a senior citizen from RK Nagar Layout in Venkitapuram in ward 13 of the city corporation, has been segregating her kitchen waste into degradable and non-degradable for the past 15 years, much before the civic body started insisting on it.

Powerloom unit owners struck work for the second consecutive day on Monday in Tirupur and Coimbatore districts demanding a hike in wages.

The district administration has declared 70 new micro-containment zones, taking the total to 96 in the last four days.

A 24-year-old man was booked on Monday for raping a minor for a year and impregnating her. The 16-year-old girl is eight months pregnant.Investigating officer sub-inspector Rajinderpal Singh said, “The accused is married and lives in the neighbourhood of the minor.

In a relief, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has decided to give businessmen an opportunity to explain the differences in their GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B returns and short or non-payment of the amount of self-assessed tax liability before any action for recovery of GST is

A 23-year-old man was brutally assaulted with sharp-edged weapons by a group of assailants in Shimlapuri for allegedly refusing to pay extortion of Rs 50,000.

The health department started administering booster dose to senior citizens, healthcare and frontline workers in Ludhiana on Monday.

The police have arrested a man for killing his wife and trying to make her death look like an accident.Vikrant, 30, of Anand Nagar, Haibowal, had murdered his wife Simran, 27, on January 8.