Pradeep Pattanayak

The fear of tampering of ballot boxes has started gripping the Opposition parties in Odisha ahead of the voting for the Panchayat polls.

The Orissa High Court expressed concerns while directing the authorities to hold discussions with the fishing community in Mangalajodi area and make them understand the harmful effects of the noise created by boats on the...

The villagers demanded the BDO to conduct a probe to identify and punish the culprits who are resorting to the gimmick to woo voters.

Bidyadhara along with some friends had travelled to Berhampur to appear in the NEET examinations a month ago. 

Former Union Minister and Balasore MP (BJP) Pratap Sarangi seems to have made it a point to go out of his way to secure victory for his party’s candidates.

The irate villagers carrying lathis chased Majhi’s car, intending to attack him when the BJD parliamentarian was on campaign trail.

Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju said this in a written reply to unstarred questions raised by BJD MP Prasanna Acharya in the Rajya Sabha. 

The family members of deceased Soumya Ranjan wanted to know why the police were not initiating action against those responsible for Soumya’s death. 

Significantly, what seems testing the patience of the victim's family is already eleven days have passed since the death, but police are yet to make any breakthrough.

In the event the police fail to file the charge sheet even after six days, it will make it easy for prime accused Sahu to avail bail, lawyers opined. 

The direction will benefit 2,000 residents living in Baramunda, Paikanagar, Kanan Vihar and Jayadev Vihar localities. 

The programme, initiated by the Health and Family Welfare department, will cover 15 districts in two phases.  

Odisha is likely to be in a better position by next month and hospitalisation rate has also decreased to 8-9 per cent, said Bijay Mohapatra, Director, Health Services, Odisha.

Till a few days ago, boarding trains, going from compartments to compartments while seeking alms were all in a day’s work for Priya.

Raja Karan had provided the houses constructed under EWS scheme at Andarpur in Cuttack to around 33 people illegally.

According to the deceased’s family members, Laxmi, 29, had migrated to Tamil Nadu in search of work in November last year.

The resumption of classroom teaching means a lot to the students in the remote areas of the State. 

On Odisha government's claim that it also has its share in the Rs 9,734 crore rail budget allocation, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said there is not even an iota of truth in the State's claim.

Raja was arrested on Friday on charges of duping people of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of providing them houses constructed under the government’s EWS scheme at Andarpur in Cuttack.

This new development has provided the Opposition parties a peg to hang their attack on the BJD government for being in a tearing hurry to facilitate the JSW to set up its project.