Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha Congress claimed to have organised a peacefull bandh across the State, sporadic incidents of violence have been reported from different parts of the State. The party workers allegedly vandalised the...

Jajpur: Hundreds of candidates who came from outside Odisha to appear the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examinations at a centre near Cuttack were left stranded on NH-16 near Jaraka in the district as Congress workers...

Puri: The State government’s ambitious project for Puri Jagannath temple – Srimandir Heritage Corridor that envisages a complete makeover of the shrine surroundings and development of amenities for the pilgrims, has been accorded final approval...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has directed the Koraput district administration to arrange all necessary documents related to border dispute issue pertaining to the villages of Kotia in Koraput district ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on...

Rourkela: Hundreds of BJP workers have been taken into preventive custody following a scuffle with police while the saffron party members protested CM Naveen Patnaik‘s visit to Rourkela on Tuesday. The party workers faced off...

Rourkela: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the country’s biggest hockey stadium and named it after the legendary freedom fighter ‘Birsa Munda’. The stadium will be the venue for the...

Baripada: The Baripada Urban Cooperative Bank, whose licence was cancelled by the Reserve Bank of India in 2014, will soon refund the money to its depositors. Hopes of 76,000 depositors have run high after the...

Keonjhar: In an unfortunate incident, an elderly woman was killed after an elephant attacked her in the courtyard of her house at Jagmohanpur under Telkoi forest range in the district last night. The deceased has...

Bargarh/Kandhamal/Kalahandi: Four persons were killed and seven others injured, some of them critically, in three separate road accidents in Odisha. The first accident took place in Bargarh district when an auto rickshaw fell off a...

Jeypore: Amid the on-going tussle between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh over the borer disputes at Kotia group of villages in Koraput district, reports of the neighbouring state operating school in Odisha’s territory has surfaced. The...

Bhubaneswar: The Budget session of the Odisha Assembly will begin as usual from tomorrow with Zero Hour, Question Hour and Adjournment motion unlike previous sessions amid strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols, Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro...

Bhubaneswar: In view of the Budget Session of Odisha Assembly beginning from today, the Commissionerate Police has restricted traffic movements on roads approaching the Assembly. The curbs have been imposed in view of security concerns,...

Jaleswar: In a tragic incident, three men and around 40 cows were killed after a cattle-laden truck overturned on NH-60 near Basta bypass square here in Balasore district on Thursday morning. Two other persons believed...

Nayagarh: A day after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Odisha Crime Branch filed a charge-sheet in the sensational rape and murder of a five-year-old girl at Jadupur in the district, the lawyer of the...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP and Congress staged walkout in the first day of Budget session of Odisha Assembly opposing Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal’s address. Soon after the House assembled for the day, Congress MLAs created ruckus...

Bhubaneswar: Three persons have been arrested for attempting self-immolation in separate incidents in front of the State Assembly in the last two days. Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash said that anyone who persuaded them to do...

Bhubaneswar: Unseasonal rains and hailstorms in Nashik in Maharshtra, the key onion producing city in the country, have led to sudden rise in the prices of the tuber vegetable in Odisha. The vegetable is currently...

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of a sudden surge in the Covid-19 cases in some parts of the country like Maharashtra and Kerala, the Commissionerate Police has decided to step up surveillance for the violators of...

Nabarangpur: The image of a man in khaki has shaken in the district. An official from Dangarabheja police outpost allegedly thrashed some youths in an inebriated condition at Suruguda village in the district. Villagers alleged...

Baliguda: A man was killed and six others injured some of them critically, when a bus they were travelling in fell off a ghat at Petarabadi under Daringbadi police station here in Kandhamal district on...