Some villagers first spotted Bhaskar’s body hanging from a tree a few yards from his house and immediately informed his family members. 

Muktar Khan of Mulisingh area under Tirtol police limits along with his daughter-in-law and two granddaughters was going to a nearby hospital on a scooter. As they were nearing Chasapada Square, a sand-laden truck hit them. 

As per the decision taken in the meeting, temporary sheds will be set up on the Badadanda (grand road) in front of the temple keeping the soaring temperature in view.

Three months ago, the deceased doctor married Dr Sushree Sangita, who works at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack..

Debahari Nayak, a resident of Berhampur area in Ganjam district, said in a fit of rage he killed a person 16 years ago and his entire life turned into a veritable hell. All his dreams were dashed to the ground.

At a time when the opposition BJP has been alleging that Naba Das murder case was a government-sponsored and well-planned murder, the chargesheet submitted by the Crime Branch doesn’t have a mention of Section 120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy).

Addressing a press conference at the district party office, former MLA Krushna Chandra Patra said, “I condemn the way the government is being run by bureaucrats"

There is a huge replica of the world-famous Konark Sun temple’s wheel with all the fine artworks installed at the right side of the ceremonial gate of the new Parliament.

In the letter, the district Collectors have been asked to submit the list by May 29. 

A resident of Sadang Panchayat, Dasarathi Jena had made rounds of the block office and bank to get his pension money. Fed up with the inertia of the officials involved, he staged a sit-in at the panchayat office with a bottle of poison. 

The members of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) took up such a move to assert that Kotia belongs to Odisha only. 

The villagers woke up to the distressed trumpets of an elephant. They rushed towards the direction from where the trumpet was coming and found that an elephant was in an abandoned well and was trying desperately to come out of it. 

Smruti and Satyajit along with some friends had gone to the river bank near Indrapal of Balipatna area for picnicking at about 7.30 AM.

The incident happened when the servitors were coming out of the Bhoga Mandap. 

The accused persons took Paul Pradhan to a secluded place near their village and killed him by bludgeoning his head with a stone

The investigation in such a high-profile murder seems to have lost its direction, alleged senior BJP leader, Bijoy Mohapatra.

The ‘Snana Jatra’ of Lord Jagannath and his siblings is on June 4. On this day, thousands of devotees throng the Grand Road. The ongoing Parikrama Project is believed to become a bottleneck. 

To celebrate nine years of the Modi government, the BJP will embark on a month-long Jana Sampark Yatra in the State.

After being tipped off about illegal soil lifting, the Tehsildar went to the spot near Patharkhamba village under Kamakhyanagar Police limits. He then clicked some photos of an earth-moving machine being used to lift soil. 

The civic body says these abandoned vehicles are causing obstruction for the sanitation workers who are not able to clean the drains and roads properly.