Bhubaneswar: The cold wave condition is likely to make a come back to as many as 18 districts of Odisha from today even as many parts of the State especially interior regions have received a...

Bhubaneswar: A decomposed body of a man was found hanging from a tree in a forest here on the ouskirts of the State Capital on Sunday. The body has been recovered by the police in...

Kandhamal: Two youths have been arrested for allegedly raping a young woman in a forest near Baliguda under Kotagarh police limits in the district. Though the unfortunate incident had taken place in January 29, the...

Puri: Close on the heels of the sensational death of one K Ramesh due to alleged police excess in the custody in November last year, an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) lodged in district jail died...

Bhubaneswar: After a hiatus of over 10 months, schools for the students of class IX and XI reopened today amid strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols across the State. As per the Standard Operating Procedures (SoP)...

Bhubaneswar: With a steady dip in night temperature, the cold wave condition is likely to prevail in most parts of the State from today. The chill condition will be felt more during night especially early...

Parlakhemundi/Bhubaneswar: An Odia candidate has withdrawn nomination papers filed for the ensuing panchayat elections being conducted by Andhra Pradesh in bordering villages of Gajapati in Odisha. Laxmi Sabar, a resident of Gangabada under Raigad block...

Puri: The Union Ministry of Culture on Monday directed the National Monument Authority (NMA) to withdraw the draft notification for the proposed heritage by-laws for the Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri. The development came hours...

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) of Odisha to take appropriate action within eight weeks in a case related to…

Bhubaneswar: While continuing its efforts to  establish the identity of the woman whose headless body was recovered on the outskirts of the city last Thursday, the Commissionerate Police has decided to store the DNA fingerprint...

Bhubaneswar: The fresh alignment of Gopalpur-Digha coastal highway that already ran into a controversy has triggered a political bickering in Odisha once again with BJD and BJP blaming each other over the development. The BJD...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The draft notification on the heritage bylaws for the Sri Jagannath Temple has been withdrawn while the notification for the Lingaraj and Anant Basudev temples has remained in force. It was confirmed by...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has braced up to move the Supreme Court with a writ petition challenging Andhra Pradesh’ announcement to conduct panchayat election in three villages of Kotia in Koraput district. In a letter...

Visakhapatnam: As many as 32 passengers had a close shave after a bus carrying them from Odisha caught fire on the National Highway-5 at Paikaraopeta near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Though the exact...

Angul/Dhenkanal: A group of villagers allegedly attacked a police team while the latter were escorting an accused from Amana village in Dhenkanal district after arresting him in an oil theft case on Tuesday. The attackers...

Berhampur: In a bid to arrest the rapid rise in the number of covid-19 positive cases in Ganjam, the district administration on Monday issued additional guidelines revising the cap on…

Rourkela: In shocking incident, a business man was killed in attack by unidentified miscreants near Deluxe Hotel lane in the city on Wednesday. The deceased identified as Sajjan Mittal who is a city-based hotelier faced...

Cuttack: The district administration on Wednesday has directed to shut down the Sun Hospital at Tulsipur here temporarily in connection with the fire mishap that took place on February 1. Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani asked...

Cuttack: The Bharatiya Bikash Parishad, a social organisation on Wednesday filed a PIL in the Orissa High Court seeking direction to the State government to take appropriate measures to safeguard its border with Andhra Pradesh...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha government gears up to move the Supreme Court against Andhra Pradesh’s announcement for holding panchayat polls in disputed Kotia region of Koraput, an MLA from the ruling YSR Congress in...