Bhubaneswar earned 2nd runners up in smart city ranking in Barcelona World Smart City Awards followed by Chennai at 4th. 250 cities of 45 countries had participated in the contest this year. Earlier Bhubaneswar had become the first Indian city selected as one…
The Centre’s surprise move to demonetise currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 has badly hit property transactions across Odisha. The city of Bhubaneswar which is State’s most expensive place to buy real estate property has not recovered from…
Sishu Bhawan Cuttack has undergone an artistic makeover by the artists from Bakul Foundation. Artist Satyabhama Majhi, along with 30 other artists, was engaged in designing ‘medical-ward II’ of the hospital for the past two months.The paintings have various layers on…
Planning to invest about Rs 200 crore for the development of infrastructure in Odisha, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) today said construction of Odisha’s second airport at Jharsuguda would be completed by May, 2018. “The construction of the Airport…
Building your dream home here is going to become a bit costlier now as the local urban development authority is all set to collect an additional tax from the citizens towards welfare of construction workers. The Bhubaneswar Development Authority has…
This festive season has ushered in a windfall for the city traffic police department. The month of October witnessed the festivals of Dussehra, Laxmi Puja and Diwali that brought forth the maximum traffic violations, and in turn raked in a…
The skyline of bhubaneswar will soon be able to rid itself of the clutter for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to impose a complete ban on rooftop hoardings and display boards. Introducing major reforms into the regulation of displaying…
Bhubaneswar has become the first Indian city selected as one of the finalists to compete for the World Smart City Awards at Barcelona later this month. The Odisha capital had topped among the first batch of 20 cities that were…
At least six new mega ports have been cleared to be built under the ambitious Sagarmala Project, taken up by the Ministry of Shipping. The National Perspective Plan (NPP) for the much talked about project envisions these new infrastructural facilities…
Ame Prahari (we the custodians), a newly launched mobile application of the state transport department, seems to be yielding result with the department getting flooded with photographs and video evidence against people violating traffic rules. Most of the sendors are…