Pradeep Pattanayak

In response to the Central government’s concern about a spike in Covid-19 cases and a fall in the number of tests, Director Health Services Bijay Mohapatra Sunday said the State’s testing rate is much better...

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar, may play a major role in exploring the precious deposits under deep blue sea water.

Throwing caution to the wind, the authorities of a private college located in Kunjakanta area, a containment zone, under Town police limits in Dhenkanal district had been conducting classes in night till Saturday when the...

Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Jena on Saturday said that the crop loss caused by cyclone Jawad-induced rainfall will be assessed within a week after the impact of the cyclone ended. 

At a time when there is a growing concern over Omicron, the Odisha government on Saturday asked the Centre to provide a portal so that the contract tracing can be carried out effectively. 

For Tapaswini Das, who sat in front of her husband’s house demanding acceptance by her husband and in-laws, the court’s order to let the couple stay together at a rented house for seven days is...

Taking note of children not being allowed entry into the Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar, the Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Friday termed the restrictions 'unfortunate'. 

A Class-IV employee of the Works department in Balasore was caught red handed by the Vigilance sleuths while accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh on Friday.  He was subsequently put under arrest.

Farmers are going to bear the brunt of approaching cyclone Jawad as they are yet to shift their harvested paddy to safety.

The 20-year-long wait of Rourkela Smart City to have an airport is going to be a thing of past soon. If everything goes as expected, flights will be a reality over the city from May...

The Odisha government is drawing flak for closing the Lok Seva Bhawan in Bhubaneswar for journalists for over one and a half years now. 

Appreciation is pouring in for Md. Rizban, who works as a grease mechanic at a garage near Shankara bypass in Sundargarh district, after he turned a Good Samaritan by returning a cash-full money purse to...

Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present a supplementary budget of Rs 19,380 crore on the first day of the Winter Session of the State Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. 

Ahead of the Winter Session of the State legislature which is scheduled to start from December 1 and will be a stormy one, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress Tuesday had legislature party...

At a time when Omicron, which is said to be six times more contagious, has sparked a global fear, the Central government Tuesday said it is well prepared to tackle the situation. 

Odisha finds place at the second spot from the bottom among of states in the country with the monthly average income of farmers in the State standing at a meagre Rs 5,112.

The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Court, Salepur, had earlier ordered the Mahanga police to file the reinvestigation status report and CDRs by November 25. The police then had pleaded for some more time to...

The BJD legislator from Khandapada and Editor of leading Odia daily, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, who was in news for his sharp editorials on the state of affairs in the BJD and Mamita murder case, today...

In view of the possible threat from Omicron, a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, Director of Public Health Dr Niranjan Mishra Monday advised the people of the State not to lower their guards against Covid-19.

Palpable tension gripped Kabarapali GP under Jujumara block in Sambalpur block after an audio-video clip of a telephonic conversation purportedly between a contractor and the sarpanch over percentage commission went viral on social media platforms.