Pradeep Pattanayak

Missing toddler Pihu’s mother, Monalisha Nayak has urged the Odisha CM to allow her to meet PM Narendra Modi, who is visiting Jajpur district tomorrow.

Cases of house break-ins & thefts are increasing in Bhubaneswar, leaving the Commissionerate Police at its wit's end. 

As the political parties have already started preparations for the upcoming big political battles, aspiring candidates in constituencies across Odisha aren’t lagging behind as well. 

Visitors can no longer take single-use plastics inside sanctuaries, national parks, and tiger reserves across Odisha from April 1. The ban was announced by the Odisha government on Monday.

The alleged entry of non-Hindus into Puri Srimandir has acted as a wake-up call for the temple administration as security has been beefed up at the Singhadwar. 

Evicted Divyang street vendors on Saturday staged a dharna in front of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office, demanding rehabilitation in a vending zone.

The Odisha Staff Selection Commission has released the tentative examination schedule for March 2024. 

With the 2024 Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly elections approaching fast, the political atmosphere in Dasapalla has already started to heat up. 

Former Dhamnagar MLA and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) rebel leader, Rajendra Das on Saturday cleared the air on joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 

A huge cobra was spotted in the bedroom of a resident of Allinagar village under the Tihidi block of Bhadrak district on Saturday. 

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Odisha on March 5, State Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena took stock of the arrangements on Friday. 

The body of a missing Plus II first-year girl was recovered from a bush, a few yards away from her house at Mangalpur under Sadar police limits of Dhenkanal on Friday. 

In a dramatic turn of events, police swooped down on a marriage pandal and took the groom straight to the police station in Bhubaneswar on Friday. 

In a shocking incident, two minor girls drowned while taking a bath in the Nagabali River of Rayagada district on Friday. 

After the hike in the monthly remuneration of 12,113 Gana Sikhyaks in the state, the daily and retainer fees of non-cadre law officials handling cases in various courts have been increased by 50 percent. 

 A farmer in Jajpur district, who is enjoying good health, has allegedly been shown as dead in government records. Worse, he is not receiving any government benefits for this piece of blunder. 

An 18-year-old boy, who succumbed to a brain tumour, has given a new lease of life to two persons by donating his organs. 

Congress media cell chairman, Biswaranjan Mohanty said, “The state government is spending crores of rupees from the government treasury on party propaganda. We term it unethical.”

In a piece of good news, Divyang devotees visiting Srimandir in Puri can now go inside the temple and have darshan of Lord Jagannath and His siblings. 

The controversy over the distribution of Rs 1000 livelihood assistance to beneficiaries doesn’t seem to die down as the BJP in Rayagada district on Thursday alleged that the money is being given by the Central...