Bhubaneswar-Puri Transport Services (BPTSL) has decided to monitor the movement of city buses through GPS-enabled device called Vehicle Tracking System (VTS). This will help both passengers and BPTSL, which runs the city buses to get real-time data of the buses…
Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram on Saturday inaugurated a Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) on the premises of Rourkela Head Post Office, solving the problem of long wait for passport. Jual said he, along with Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and…
The Indian Association of Tour Operators is all set to host their 33rd Annual Convention in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. This year’s edition will be held from September 07-10 at the Mayfair Convention Centre, Bhubaneswar. Previously, IATO has held its convention in…
High-tech CCTV cameras have been installed in the premises of Lord Shri Lingaraj Temple here to enhance security of the shrine and safety of devotees. Tapan Kumar Chand, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) inaugurated the surveillance system…
Odisha government is hopeful of getting the Bhitarkanika National Park, the country’s second largest mangrove forest after the Sundarbans in neighbouring West Bengal, included in the list of Unesco World Heritage Sites. “A meeting of the International Union for Conservation…
According to a report in Times of India Lord Jagannath’s Mahaprasad will now undergo quality check before being sold to devotees and the administration has decided to use the services of a food inspector for the task, a first of…
Who? When? King Uddyota Kesari of Somavamsi (or better known as Kesari Kings) dynasty built the Brahmeshwara temple in the eighteenth year of his reign. He was the son of queen Kolavati and Yayati Kesari-II (also called Chandihara). Queen…
Every time or other I used to get this Question, “Have you visited Daringbadi?” Can you give us some tips about it? The answer was No. Somehow the label Kashmir of Odisha didn’t excite me enough to Visit Daringbadi. My…
How do you feel, when something you know very well come across you on a different part of earth, specially when your primary intend was not that quest. It is really exciting. A feel good factor knocks in your mind,…
Odisha will get a direct international flight from Bhubaneswar by the end of March. An MoU was signed today between the state government and Air Asia in presence of Odisha Chief Secretary A P Padhi and Development Commissioner R Balakrishnan…