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Bhubaneswar: Almost seven months after the Odisha government decided to refund money to the people who have lost their deposits in the multi-crore chit fund scam in the State, it finalized the application format to complete the refund procedure. Official sources said, the format will be notified officially very soon. “Since all the panchayats don’t […]

Cuttack: The Executive body of the Orissa High Court Bar Association has stoked a controversy after flatly denying the claim made by Association president Ashok Mohapatra that a fact-finding team or Committee had been formed by the Association on the repair of Jagmohan. Some members of the Association today said it was a deliberate attempt […]

He is already being talked about as the future Chief Minister of Odisha. As the NDA government completes two years in office, he has been rated among the five best performing ministers in the Narendra Modi government. But with an eye on the future, Dharmendra Pradhan has not restricted himself to the affairs of his ministry – at least not in Odisha. He has intervened in every major issue in the state – whether it is jaundice deaths in Burla or the repair of the Jagamohan in the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, frequently earning the wrath of the BJD government in the state. In this exclusive interview with Shubhankar Behera of odishatv.in, Pradhan talks about a range of issues: the results of the latest round of Assembly elections, the prospects for his party in the state in the near future, speculation about his Chief Ministerial ambition, the affairs of his ministry and much more

Koraput: Senior Congress leader and Opposition chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati was granted conditional bail on Saturday by Jeypore SDJM court in connection with vandalism during an anti-liquor protest rally in Borigumma block of the district in March this year. Bahinipati, who had applied for advance bail in the Orissa High Court after being named […]

Jajpur: The Assistant Sessions Judge here on Friday sentenced Sanjay Nayak, convicted for an attempt to murder trade union leader Samrat Gupta, to a five-year jail term. Gupta, a close aide of former Odisha Finance minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei, was grievously injured when a miscreant shot at him in Kaliapani chromite valley area in 2010. […]

The laidback state of affairs in forest management in the State surfaced today when in Rajya Sabha Union Minister, Forests, Bhupendra Yadav said Odisha is yet to send last 5-years' loss assessment report to the Centre

Bhubaneswar: The probe into the chit fund scam in Odisha is expected to gather momentum after a team of senior officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) met in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. The meeting was chaired by SIT additional director Rakesh Asthana. Two joint directors of the SIT, SPs of various zones and 15 […]

Bhubaneswar: Sanjeev Marik, former Director General of Police (DGP) of Odisha, has lost the Godda Assembly constituency seat in Jharkhand, the result of which was announced today. Marik, who had joined Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) days before the tribal-dominated seat went to polls, managed to get 18,337 votes. BJP’s Amit Mandal, son of Raghunandan Mandal, […]

Bhubaneswar: Days after OTV unearthed a flourishing ghost vehicle registration racket, police have arrested three government employees in this connection. According to sources, police have arrested the Junior Motor Vehicle Inspectors (MVI) of Keonjhar and Chandikhole along with the steno of the Chandikhole Regional Transport Office (RTO). Keonjhar MVI Nrushingh Panigrahi has been arrested for […]

Bhubaneswar: Good news for the bird lovers of Odisha. For the first time ever in the state, a flock of endangered Indian Skimmers has been found nesting along the sands of Mahanadi riverbed in Mundali area on the outskirts of Cuttack city. Briefing media persons here yesterday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) Sidhant Das […]

Cuttack: The process for by-poll in Ward no-21 of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) began today with the filing of nomination papers by four candidates. Reports said the Congress candidate Gouri Das filed her nominations after which BJP candidate Padmini Behera, BJD candidate Tulasi Behera and Independent candidate Bharati Behera filed their nominations at the […]

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) today sounded a cyclone warning along Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coast after a depression, formed over north Sri Lanka and its adjoining area over Gulf of Manner and south-west Bay of Bengal yesterday, concentrated into a deep depression this morning. The deep depression is likely to take the shape […]

Bhubaneswar: A Chennai-bound Air India flight (AI-765) from Kolkata made an emergency landing at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here last night after it developed some technical snag. Airport authorities said the flight landed at around 9:25 pm as one of its turbines became completely defunct. “The pilot of the flight immediately informed the […]

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has rated Naveen Patnaik as the best Chief Minister in the country. “Let us be frank – among all the chief ministers today, in my humble opinion Naveen is the best,” Deve Gowda told OTV in an exclusive interview here. “During natural disasters when Odisha was adversely affected, […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to minimise the number of road mishaps, the State Transport department has set July 31 as the deadline for all commercial transport vehicles such as trucks, buses, goods carriages and mini buses to install speed governors (a device to limit the vehicle’s maximum speed) and limit their speed to 80 km […]