The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation plans to run electric buses on select routes in the Smart City. A private consultancy firm will be hired to conduct a feasibility study for the purpose. “The survey will help us in chalking out the…
Finally Bhubaneswar gets serious about Waste Segregation : 1000 bins by Feb 1 around the city
The civic body will install 3,600 dustbins at 1,800 locations across the city to ensure better waste management and a cleaner city. By February 1, as many as 1,000 bins will be set up at 500 locations. Each location will…
Are you frustrated too with Rash Driving of Auto Rickshaws in Bhubaneswar? A restriction for them in plans
Auto rickshaw service, considered to be the lifeline of public transport system here, stares at an uncertain future as the state government plans to curtail their movement on roads as Bhubaneswar is going to be a Smart City. “It is…
Mukteswar Festival in Bhubaneswar 2017: Best showcase of Artistic Nature of Odisha
The temple tower (shikhar) of 10th Century architectural Mukteswar shrine in the centre of Bhubaneswar stood as a majestic mute spectator in the background. A sprinkling of smaller temple shikhars on the same premises provided the quaint backdrop to the…
Joint squad of BDA and BMC conducted eviction drive at various places in bhubaneswar
A joint squad of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started eviction drive to evict unauthorized vendors from footpath and cycle tracks in the smart city. The squad on Tuesday has cleared pavements and cycle tracks from…
Piped cooking gas in Bhubaneswar and Varanasi by March next year
People in Varanasi, the Parliament constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will start getting piped cooking gas by March next year, about nine months ahead of the proposed Jagdishpur-Haldia gas pipeline touches the city, with supplies sourced using tankers. State-owned…
10-year-old Odisha girl can name 1,000 rivers in 9 minutes, enters India Book of Records
Child prodigy Meghali Malabika Swain (10) of Odisha has etched her name on record books by entering into India Book of Records for naming 1,000 rivers of the world in 9 minutes, 1,000 cities of the world in 10 minutes,…
Inspirational ideas enthrall the audience at TEDxXIMB 2017 bhubaneswar
TEDxXIMB 2017 was organized at Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University Bhubaneswar on January 15, 2017. TED is a non-profit organization devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks by the leading thinkers and doers of…
To protect consumers from fraud Real estate transactions, a watchdog is being planned
Real estate buyers will shortly be able to air their grievances in a hassle-free manner with the state-level Real Estate Regulatory Authority. Once the authority is set up, homebuyers and customers of commercial estates can register their appeals against any…
Pal Heights Mantra, a Luxury Hotel opens at Pahala on National Highway
THE Pal Heights Mantra, a luxury hotel at Pahala along National Highway 16, was inaugurated by Director of Pal Heights group Inderjeet Kaur on Saturday. The venture, an extended wing of Pal Heights, has been designed keeping in mind the…