Pradeep Pattanayak

The sleuths of the Odisha Vigilance Department on Tuesday arrested the Revenue Inspector (RI) and a peon of Lamtaput RI office under Macchkund tehsil in Koraput district for accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 for...

With biting cold conditions gripping most parts of the state and mercury dropping below 10 degrees Celsius at several places, the demand for winter garments has suddenly picked up. 

Police on Monday arrested a person for smuggling ganja by wrapping the contraband item around his body with duct tape at Nandapur in Koraput. He had strapped seven kilograms of ganja around his chest. 

A day after 5T chairman VK Pandian lashed out at the Opposition leaders for criticising the transformation taking place in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress leaders on Monday launched an...

Two unidentified bike-borne miscreants allegedly kidnapped a six-year-old girl from near State Bank Chhak in Deograh on Monday. 

The Excise Department officials arrested four persons for smuggling banned cough syrup bottles in a train during a raid on Monday at Bamra Railway Station under Gobindpur Police limits of Sambalpur district.

Police on Sunday detained a person on charges of killing two youths over a trivial argument at Amarudhi village under K Balang Police limits of Sundargarh district. 

The saints from Bhopal reached Puri a few days ago to take new idols of the holy Trinity back to Bhopal. Six days ago, they set out on their padayatra with the idols.

Police seized 120 bottles of banned cough syrup from a person at Komna in Nuapada. The person was arrested for his alleged involvement in the smuggling. 

At a time when speculations are rife about Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi’s next move, the legislator’s statement on Sunday increased the political heat in Odisha by several notches. 

A woman and her sick one-and-a-half-year-old nephew suffered critical injuries after an ambulance allegedly hit them inside the new district headquarters hospital at Gelpur in Bhadrak on Sunday.

The infant who was stuck in an open borewell at Laripali in the Rengali area of Sambalpur and was later rescued after an eight-hour-long operation on December 12th night is showing signs of improvement at...

The doctors at the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar can no longer prescribe MRI and CT scans without proper investigation of their patients. 

Two youths were trampled to death by two wild elephants in separate incidents reported from Bargarh district on Sunday. 

The legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha along with the party’s state president Manmohan Samal and the MPs are scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and National...

Internationally acclaimed sand artist and member of the Srimandir Management Committee, Sudarsan Pattnaik on Saturday wrote a letter to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik requesting him to save ancient artworks falling under the parikrama project. 

Professor Deepak Gupta of AIIMS, New Delhi examined Jaga, the survivor of the conjoined Jaga & Kalia twins, at Kandhamal District Headquarters Hospital (DHH).

Everyone was taken aback after the party’s MLA and minister started campaigning for party leader Shreemayee Mishra and dropped quite explicit hints that she is Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s choice for the Bhubaneswar Parliamentary seat. 

Some school students on Saturday showed exemplary courage and overpowered a thief while he was trying to loot from a jewellery shop near the Palasuni Branch of the State Bank of India under Mancheswar Police...

The recent spurt in diarrhoea cases in Sundargarh’s Rourkela has left the district administration on its toes.