Ramakanta Biswas

Bhadrak: The Vigilance department sleuths on Thursday nabbed a junior-clerk-cum-dealing-clerk of district labour office red-handed while the latter was accepting a bribe of Rs 9,000 from a security firm. According to sources, the accused clerk,...

Kendrapara: More than 20 passengers were reportedly injured after a private bus in which they were travelling in overturned here on Thursday. The mishap occurred near Jamdhar Chhak of Cuttack-Chandbali road at around 5 pm...

Bhubaneswar: Hours after the high-security zone outside the Odisha Assembly witnessed some bizarre scenes with a youth holding his mother hostage at knifepoint; the police claimed that the youth was mentally unstable. The youth held...

Kendrapara: A petition was filed in the Orissa High Court on Thursday seeking a probe by the CBI or a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the death of Right to Information (RTI) activist, Ranjan Das...

Puri: Timely action by lifeguards saved the lives of two brothers who were swept away in Puri Sea while taking bath today. According to sources, the two brothers hailing from Khordha were bathing in the...

Bhubaneswar: Soon after the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) launched a month-long awareness padyatra on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti today, the BJP and Congress strongly criticised the move and termed it an attempt to...

Balasore: At least seven persons were injured in a clash that broke out between two groups over a piece of land in Balasore district on Friday. The incident was reported from Sana Ausa village under...

Bhubaneswar: With 4,048 patients recuperating from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries in Odisha mounted to 1,94,128. While 683 patients recovered from Khordha, 466 got cured from Cuttack, 195 from...

Bhubaneswar: The death toll due to Covid-19 touched the 100-mark in Odisha capital with four more persons succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. A total of 16 coronavirus patients died in the...

Bhubaneswar: Further improving the recovery rate, 4066 Covid patients have recuperated from the disease in Odisha in the last 24 hours. The total number of recovered cases of the State now climbed to 198194. The...

Jagatsinghpur: A youth accused of raping and impregnating a divyang girl in Kujang area of Jagatsinghpur district was arrested by police on Saturday. The accused Sili Majhi was reportedly absconding for the past two months...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Commission for Women (SCW) on Tuesday made it clear that it was not investigating gang rape of a minor but probing the allegations of workplace harassment brought by the girl’s mother....

Bhubaneswar: With 365 more persons testing positive for coronavirus under the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area in the last 24 hours, the positive case tally of the city reached 23,914 on Tuesday. Of the fresh...

Bhubaneswar: The monsoon session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly was adjourned sine die on Tuesday, a day ahead of the scheduled completion. Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro adjourned the session, which commenced on September 29 and...

Bhubaneswar: A girl riding a scooter was robbed of her gold chain by motorcycle-borne miscreants in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. The incident was reported near Apollo Hospitals in the capital city. Another chain snatching from a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Tuesday registered recovery of 3817 Covid-19 patients, taking the total number of patients cured of the infections to 2,10217. According to the State health department, the maximum recovery of 969 patients was...

Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has ordered a probe into the fire mishap triggered by an explosion at a filling station near Raj Bhawan in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. Taking to Twitter, Pradhan said, “After...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Capital Bhubaneswar reported 314 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday while 354 people cured of the disease in the last 24 hours. Of the fresh infections, 230 are local contact cases while 84...

Bhubaneswar: With 3455 Covid-19 patients recuperating from the disease in the last 24 hours, the recovery tally in Odisha mounted to 213672 on Wednesday. The highest number of 571 patients cured of the disease from...

Bhubaneswar: Renowned Odia poet Nityanand Nayak will receive the 41st edition of the prestigious Sarala Puraskar, instituted by IMFA’s charitable wing of IMPaCT. Nayak has been nominated for the literary award for his poetry work...