The civic body will shortly launch an online hoardings monitoring and management system to nab illegal hoardings and also to boost its revenue through advertisements. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has come up with an initiative to enrol advertising agencies…
IBI Group expertise in designing smart, connected cities and communities has been a core competency of the firm for the last 40 years. Providing a range of services related to the integrated and sustainable movement of people, goods and information, several…
Tata Steel, the steelmaking arm of the salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group, is buying a majority stake in an upcoming port project in Odisha, the company said on Wednesday. In a statement issued after market hours, Tata Steel said that it…
Dr Mukut Minz, who led the kidney transplant surgery on Union Minister Sushma Swaraj recently, was among four personalities from Odisha to be selected for the Padma Shri Awards. Besides him, cine star Sadhu Meher, folk singer Jitendra Haripal and…
The government today released the list of Padma award winners – one of the highest civilian awards of the country. The awards are given in various fields of activities from art, social work to public affairs, science and engineering, trade, industry, medicine, literature, education…
As famed Dhauli Peace Pagoda here earned notoriety of being unsafe in the wake of frequent road accidents, the tourism department is planning to ban the movement of buses atop the famous Buddhist destination. “We plan not to allow buses…
Narendra Modi recently launched BHIM, India’s very own e-wallet app. Currently available only on Android, the app supports English and Hindi languages as of now. But if a report is to be believed, BHIM will soon support up to seven…
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started the process of engaging rag pickers in segregation of municipal solid waste. In the first phase, 500 rag pickers have been identified and provided with identity cards. “On December 12, the civic body…
October, 1954. The Karthik moon would have been full and yellow in a clear indigo sky; thousands of tiny boats made of cork or banana tree barks, carrying oil lamps, would be journeying in the Mahanadi – let afloat by…
In a bid to promote sustainable development, that too in an eco-friendly way, the state government got the ball rolling to set up a project worth `500 crore in Gopalpur to boost tourism infrastructure here in Ganjam district. The Eco…