National News Updates

Five persons were killed and three injured in different road accidents near Soro in the district on Sunday

Several assets were reduced to ashes after fire hit the State Bank of India (SBI)’s Nuasahi Market branch office in Phulbani town on Sunday morning

A man was killed in a landmine blast in Pottangi area in Koraput district on Sunday morning

In order to provide uninterrupted power to the residents of the capital city, the work for laying underground power cables began on Sunday

Odisha Congress on Sunday organised its eight phase Jagaran Padyatra in the Steel city after holding similar type of rallies in seven districts of the State in last seven months

Paradip: What was meant to be a Sunday outing of fun and frolic turned into a nightmare for a group of six students of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar when one of them went missing while taking bath at Mahanadi river mouth here today. The missing student has been identified as Asil […]

East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run nine pairs of weekly and bi-weekly special trains across various destinations of the country in a bid to clear additional rush of passengers during the summer

Anupam Samantaray of ‎National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela Odisha has bagged the top position in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-2016, the results of which were declared on Friday

Athagarh: Two elephants were found dead here on Sunday morning. According to reports, the bodies of a female elephant and its calf were found between Pushupangi and Chhashiapata under Athagarh forest division area in Cuttack district. The calf was found lying at around 1 km from the place where the female elephant lay dead. On […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Odisha government enforced the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the striking workers of the 108 ambulance, FIRs were lodged against 12 employees of the emergency service at Mahakalapada police station in Kendrapara while two workers were detained at Ghasipura in Keonjhar district. “Some of the workers were detained in […]

Khurdha: A crusher owner was stoned to death by miscreants at Dadhimachhgadia under Sadar police limits in the district last night. The deceased Sujit Biswal was returning home with his friend Santosh Pradhan on a bike. A car coming from the opposite site hit them on the way and they fell down. Later the miscreants […]

Bhubaneswar/Keonjhar: With the ‘108’ ambulance employees’ strike entering the third day today, a woman gave birth to a baby on the way to hospital in the absence of the emergency service vehicle in the district yesterday. The pregnant woman, a resident of Kotpada village under Anandpur police limits in Keonjhar, complained of labour pain following […]

Aiming to figure among the top three states in the country in the ‘Ease of doing Business Indices’, the Odisha government has asked the concerned departments to expedite the implementation of the remaining reform agenda

Puri: A team of 12 scientists of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochin have found traces of coral reef under the deep sea off the Puri coast. Talking to media persons after the survey, Pralay Kumar Behera, scientist, CMFRI’s Research Station at Vishakhapatnam, said “For the first time, we conducted an underwater survey off […]

In a sensational twist to the alleged theft of a one and half month old baby girl from the Sishu Bhavan here, police on Saturday said it was the mother herself who threw the infant, who died after falling off accidentally, in an unused well in Jobra area