Pradeep Pattanayak

A farmer allegedly ended his life for not being able to repay loans taken to grow paddy at Khurusia village under Kamakhyanagar Police limits of Dhenkanal on Friday. 

In a shocking incident, a man allegedly hacked his uncle (father’s younger brother) and his sister-in-law (cousin brother’s wife) to death at Paladhuapalli village under Khallikote Police limits of Ganjam district on Friday. 

The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) of selling more than half of the recently-filled 20,000 teacher posts. 

Bhubaneswar Cyber Police on Friday arrested a person for creating a fake ID of a woman on a matrimonial site and duping a user. 

The makeshift roadside vendors from Market Chhak to Hospital Chhak that were evicted on December 25 on account of the inauguration of the Srimandir Parikrama project in Puri staged a demonstration on the Grand Road...

A one-sided love affair turned bloody after a youth allegedly slit the throat of a girl at Buanla village under Sadar block of Balasore district on Tuesday. 

Tension gripped the government veterinary hospital at Buxi Bazaar in Cuttack when local people thronged the facility and objected to the practice of doctors using prescription papers with the branding of a private medicine store. 

The Excise Department sleuths on Tuesday arrested a person on charges of selling and supplying ganja and ganja cigarettes from his betel shop at Mancheswar in Bhubaneswar.

A newborn baby girl was found dumped near the Dhamra petrol pump in Bhadrak district in the late hours of Monday night. The rescued infant is presently undergoing treatment at Bhadrak district headquarters hospital (DHH). 

Hope emerged for four labourers of Rajnagar area in Kendrapara who are stuck in Qatar after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Vice President, Baijayant Panda wrote a letter to the Indian Ambassador to Qatar requesting...

Senior Congress leader and Jeypore MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati on Tuesday urged the district administration to close liquor shops and bars across the district on the Ram Mandir consecration day.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday released a video message wherein he appealed to people to light lamps, blow conches, beat gongs, sing devotional songs and chant Lord Jagannath’s name on January 17.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going to organise a Mahila Samavesh either in Puri or in Bhubaneswar, said Odisha BJP President, Manmohan Samal on Monday. 

The Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority (ORERA) has formed a special cell called the Conciliation and Dispute Resolution (CDR) cell to resolve disputes between flat/house buyers and builders. 

Protesting against the block administration’s step-motherly attitude, the sarpanch of Dihudipur panchayat under Pattamundai block of Kendrapara district stopped an Arpan Rath by lying down in front of it. 

The people living in panchayats are going to have weather-related information as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has developed a mobile app titled ‘Panchayat Mausam Seva’.

A security blanket has been thrown in and around the pilgrim city of Puri for the inauguration ceremony of Srimandir Parikrama Prakalpa on January 17.

Since it is an agrarian festival and in Odisha festivals are incomplete without sweets and mouth-watering delicacies, on this day, a traditional and special dish is prepared with 'Makara Chaula' or newly harvested rice.

A piece of good news for wildlife lovers and activists! The population of crocodiles in Satkosia and Bhitarkanika sanctuaries has increased this year. 

BJP’s Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi on Saturday took a swipe at the BJD-led Odisha government over the Arpan Rath vehicles moving around the state.