Dhenkanal: A youth was brutally hacked to death inside his house at Minabazaar of Dhenkanal town today. The deceased identified as Mantu Patra was the owner of a jewellery shop in the town. Mantu’s body...

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Kumar Choubey today urged the Odisha government to adopt Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana along with its own Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana. Speaking during the inauguration the Fakir...

Sambalpur: BJP national secretary Suresh Pujari today demanded a CBI probe into the murder of former Sarpanch and RTI activist Parashuram Pradhan of Charmarda village in Naktideul block of the district. Speaking at a presser,...

Bhubaneswar: A youth was grievously injured after unidentified miscreants opened fire at him near Tankapani road here today.According to sources, one Sushant Bhoi of the area was critically injured after four miscreants in a car...

Bhubaneswar: With the ‘Make In Odisha’ conclave barely a few weeks away, the State government and the Centre seem to be vying to take credit for bringing maximum investments to the state. Close on heels...

Bhubaneswar: A 10-year-old Royal Bengal tiger under treatment at the Nandankanan zoo hospital for the past six months breathed its last today. The male tiger named ‘Manish’ was normal colored and was being treated under...

Bhubaneswar: While the BJP is already being criticised at different quarters for turning the last rites of former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee into a political game play, the over-enthusiastic participation of BJD during different condolence events...

Jagatsinghpur: The Health and Family Welfare department today urged villagers of Kanaguli under Ersama block in the district to stay off from local quacks and superstitious practices to cure family members and relatives of dengue....

Kendrapara: Odisha DGP R P Sharma today suspended the Mahakalpada police station IIC Shyamaghana Behera for ‘dereliction of duty’ after a youth picked in connection with mobile theft was reportedly found dead under mysterious circumstances....

Berhampur: A young man who climbed on an electric tower at the Berhampur railway station early this morning creating chaos among the onlookers was successfully rescued by the railway authorities. As per reports, a few...

Angul: Pallahara MLA Mahesh Sahu has come under scanner after he allegedly threatened a group of protestors during Health Minister Pratap Jena’s visit to the constituency on August 14. As per reports, Sahu was seated...

Puri: The Astaranga police on Tuesday arrested a woman for allegedly duping two girls by promising them employment in a company in Bhubaneswar.  As per reports, the accused woman Dibya Bharati Jena had collected Rs...

Bhubaneswar: Buses and heavy vehicles kept off roads across the state in view of the nationwide strike called by the Transport Workers’ Federation today. Parents and students in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack...

Cuttack: The audio of Babusan and Sanameer-starrer movie “Local Toka Love Chokha” was formally launched at a function in Cuttack today. Released under Taranga Music banner, the music was launched in presence of several fans....

Phulbani: Three girl students of the Mahasingh Nodal UP School in Kandhamal district were injured today after being allegedly beaten up by their headmaster for not sweeping classroom floor. The injured were rushed to Baliguda...

A few kilometres from where India’s ‘supersonic’ interceptor missiles are test fired so often, relatives of a man who died of snakebite today attempted to bring him back to life by asking a sorcerer to...

Berhampur: Five-year-old Kanha appeared nervous today as he entered the hospital room to remove multiple stitches on his face. The boy was operated upon on July 26 by a team of 12 doctors at MKCG...

Kendrapara: The Kanika Shahid Smruti Sansad today observed a bandh at Rajkanika in Kendrapara protesting the ‘undignified’ soil collection from memorials of martyrs Basu Sethi and Bisuni Madhual. The idea of soil collection by the...

Bhubaneswar: A doctor, practising as a medicine specialist in Angul was today crushed to death by a private bus near the Chandrashekharpur petrol pump here. As per reports, the deceased identified as Basant Rout, was...

Bhubaneswar: A joint-eviction squad led by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today evicted unauthorized constructions that had come up over the sewage line at the IRC village in Nayapalli. The squad including officials of the Bhubaneswar Development...