National News Updates

Balasore: In a fatal road accident, a couple and one of their relatives died when the ambulance in which they were travelling in rammed into a stationary truck near Simulia on NH-5 in the wee hours of Tuesday. Three more persons injured severely in the incident have been shifted to Bhadrak district headquarters hospital for […]

Bhubaneswar: Less than 24 hours after the firing incident at Paradip in which two youths were injured seriously, senior BJD leader and Excise minister Damodar Rout and his arch rival Congress leader Bapi Sarkhel on Monday engaged in war of words blaming each other for the incident. While Rout made a veiled attack on Sarkhel, […]

Cuttack: Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh on Saturday reviewed the security arrangements for the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Balasore on June 2. He said adequate arrangements have been made, in view of the expected high turnout at the meeting place as well as inside the industrial town. “We have […]

Bhubaneswar: Putting all speculation to rest, BJD supremo and chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday named three senior party leaders – Bishnu Charan Das, Prasanna Acharya and N Bhaskar Rao – as its candidates for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha polls. Announcing this at Naveen Nivas this evening, Patnaik said, “Three senior leaders of Biju Janata […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after chief minister Naveen Patnaik reviewed the work of State Commerce and Transport department, a startling fact has come to notice: five out of eight toll plazas in Odisha are operating illegally. These are Pipili, Sergarh (near Chandikhole), Manguli, Panikoili, Baraguda in Bargarh district. All Odisha Private Bus Owners’ Association on Friday […]

Bhubaneswar: Launched in February 2014, the Odisha government’ ambitious Biju Gaon Gaadi scheme, aimed at improving connectivity in 23 backward and tribal districts of the State, has covered 490 gram panchayats (GPs) of the State in the last two years. This was informed by Commerce and Transport minister Ramesh Majhi after attending a review meeting […]

Bhubaneswar: Normal life was disrupted after Norwester stormed several parts of Odisha this afternoon resulting in the death of two women and large scale damage to trees and property. Reports reaching here said a woman was killed in her sleep when the wall of a house fell on her at Chandura village in Jagatsinghpur district […]

Athgarh: A deadly fire engulfed the village of Chainpur in Athgarh sub division claiming two lives and gutting as many as 80 houses. Another person seriously injured in the fire is receiving treatment at a hospital. According to sources, the fire that broke out suddenly quickly spread from one house to another and gutted 80 […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after Odisha government issued a notification to facilitate refund of investors’ money in Rose Valley chit fund company, the Justice MM Das Commission of Inquiry probing into the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam in the State submitted an interim report to the Odisha government on Wednesday. Debraj Rout, secretary to the Commission […]

Rourkela: In a daring heists in broad daylight, three bike-borne miscreants looted cash worth Rs 4.25 lakh from a cashier of IDL Explosives Ltd at Tangarapali on the outskirts of the Steel City today. Reports said Prasanna Kumar Das, cashier of IDL Explosives Ltd, had gone to the State Bank of India (SBI)’s Balijhudi branch […]

Anandpur: Suresh Kumar Sahu, the councillor from Ward No 14, was today elected unopposed as the vice-chairperson of Anandpur Notified Area Council (NAC). The Returning Officer announced Sahu’s election after he emerged as the only candidate to file his nominations for the post. Out of 16 councillors, 14 were present today. But as no candidate […]

Bhubaneswar: With only a few days left for the onset of the rainy season in Odisha, Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has asked the Housing and Urban Development department to improve the drainage system in Bhubaneswar and ensure proper discharge of storm water during the monsoon. Reviewing projects and development work undertaken by the department in […]

Bhubaneswar: Given the bitterness that marked the long period of their estrangement, a reunion between them was the last thing anyone expected. But over three years after they fell out, Rajashree Mohanty, son of Basta strongman and former cabinet minister Raghunath Mohanty, and Barsa Swony Chudhury, announced today that they had made up and decided […]

Bhubaneswar: To avoid any possible discrepancies during the refund process of the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam in the State, the Odisha government has decided to appoint nodal officers to receive the applications from duped investors. The government has mentioned this in the notification issued today in this regard. These specially appointed officers will scrutinise […]

Bhubaneswar: The agitating nursing students of SCB medical college and hospital, Cuttack on Tuesday called on Health minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak and submitted a memorandum seeking removal of their principal Kajal Rani Sinha from the helm of the school. The students of the School of Nursing threatened to launch a 24×7 dharna if the government […]