Pradeep Pattanayak

In the 2017 elections, the saffron party had won 297 Zilla Parishad zones.

Asked what prompted her to join politics, Hira said it was the sufferings of her fellow villagers in the aftermath of cyclone ‘Fani’ that made take the decision to change their lives

The safe return from the conflict zone naturally brought rounds of happiness to their anxious families and huge relief for the parents who spent sleepless nights watching the horrors of the dangerous war unfolding before...

Even today, 3,000 Indian students, including 500 odd from Odisha, are still holed up in war-hit Kharkiv city alone.

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is ahead in around 90 percent seats in the recently concluded three-tier Panchayat elections as the counting of votes cintinues for the second day. 

Alleging discrepancy, the Pallahara Block unit of the saffron party alleged that the number of ballot papers used for voting didn’t match with the number of ballot papers found in the ballot boxes. 

Little educated Maheshwar Binjhal of Kayakuda village under Jujumura Block in Sambalpur district has made this possible. At present, crops in his farmland are undulating in breeze.

For the first time since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, students belonging to the elementary and primary classes are going to receive structured classroom teaching in schools from the last day of this...

Sevayats (servitors) belonging to the Brahman Nijog and Pujapanda Nijog have demanded that the devotees should be allowed to light lamps and offer puja inside the temple premises on the day of Maha Shivratri.

Police have arrested six persons who had been allegedly carrying out the clandestine business for a long time.

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is confident of a landslide victory.

No incident of violence was reported during the re-polling.  

The police also seized Rs 5.4 lakh cash from the accused persons. On the basis of leads ferreted out from the accused, the cops raided a garage at Trishulia and seized truck body parts, instruments...

The parents have been in a state of great anxiety and fear thinking about their children who are stranded in war-torn Ukraine.

All the nijogs of the temple like Brahman Nijog, Puja Panda Nijog and Badu Nijag agreed to extend their full cooperation for the smooth conduct of Maha Shivratri, which is one of the important occasions...

The woman, a doctor by profession, has stated in her complaint that Swain had made an acquaintance with her through a matrimonial site.

The final rites of the deceased boy were performed on Thursday as hundreds of tearful villagers bid him adieu.

As per an earlier direction of the HC, the committee, comprising lawyers, had visited Dhinkia which was on the boil in January after police baton charged betel farmers who protested a drive to evict betel...

At a time when the fate of the candidates in the fray for the Panchayat elections are sealed in the ballot boxes, contestants in some places are getting anxious about the security arrangements at the...

The conch party leaders alleged that they have taken up the poll violence issue with the SEC for as many as eight times but no action has been taken so far.