Pradeep Pattanayak

According to the priest of the temple, of the eight stolen idols, five were of large sizes while the rest were comparatively smaller ones. 

Congress President Sonia Gandhi approved Patel’s candidature on Monday after recommendation of his name by the OPCC. 

During his recent visit to New Delhi, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while replying to the queries of national media said the BJD would like to be independent. 

According to the report, one married woman of 18-49 age group in every three women, or 33 percent of the total women of the said age group, has been subjected to domestic violence.     

“While Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams are kept ready for Ganjam, Puri, Astarang, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts, the district Collectors have been empowered to take steps for evacuation if necessary,” Jena informed. 

He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, informed Ranjit Kar, his son. 

The tainted additional Tehsildar has been identified as Sarada Maharana. The officials seized the bribe money from her office. 

As per the centuries-old tradition, as many as 865 trunks of Phasi, Asan and Dhaura trees are required for chariot construction every year.

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If the information Central Pollution Control Board is anything to go by, among the 19 polluted rivers in Odisha, the Gangua is the most polluted one.

Demanding arrest of the BJD’s Jharigaon MLA Prakash Majhi, the leaders and workers of the district unit of Congress in Nabarangpur assembled at Jharigaon bus stand and burnt an effigy of the legislator.

Protesting against the move of the government, the employees of LIC Circle Office in Cuttack staged a two-hour-long demonstration. They demanded the rollback of the decision. 

“The cyber cell of Odisha Crime Branch had seized over 19,000 pre-activated SIM cards in Dhenkanal district few days ago. In this connection, the CB has taken mastermind Dushmant Sahu and his two aides on...

“She was recovering fast when she was in the cabin. Upon admission of the MLA, we were shifted to general ward. As of now, her condition is deteriorating," said the patient’s grandmother, Jema Nayak. 

This was the same Pattachitra painting depicting the ‘Ram Durbar’ Prime Minister Modi had gifted her when she had visited India last year. 

From the condition of Giridhari Sandha’s decrepit mud hut with thatched-roof where his family lives, one doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out his financial condition. 

As many as three platoon police forces have been deployed at the locality to check any escalation in law and order situation. 

A sum of Rs 804 crore was deposited in the bank accounts of over 40 lakh small and marginal farmers. 

The Commissionerate of Police has brought Bikas Kumar, the lady accountant’s boyfriend, from Jharkhand to Bhubaneswar on transit remand.