National News Updates

The Supreme Court on Friday asked builder and chairman of the Hi-Tech Group Tirupati Panigrahi to deposit the pending Rs 14 crores out of the Rs 63.5 crores he had been asked to pay earlier to avail bail within four weeks or risk rejection of bail

Puri: In an incident that has made a mockery of the ban on corporal punishment in schools, the teacher of a private school near Gopalpur Balighat on Puri-Konark road allegedly beat up two students after tying their hands to the iron grill of the school over some trivial matter yesterday. Authorities of the School & […]

Bhubaneswar: The State government today effected a reshuffle in the senior bureaucracy appointing former Malkangiri collector R. Vineel Krishna as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) created for the Bhubaneswar Smart City project after his return from Central deputation. Vineel Krishna has also been given additional charge as the Managing […]

Koraput: The election for the post of chairperson of the Koraput Municipality, necessitated after the resignation of the incumbent chairperson Biswabhusan Patnaik, will be held today. In the 21-seat Koraput Municipality, both Congress and BJD have 10 seats each. During the election of the last Chairman, BJD was able to persuade Patnaik, who was an […]

Jajpur: In an act that defiles the word ‘justice’ in every sense of the term, a minor who was raped and later got pregnant has been ostracized by the villagers along with her family in Gurudisahi village under Kaliapani police limits of Jajpur district. Not satisfied with banishing the family from the village, the villagers […]

Cuttack: In a shocking incident, a one month and half month old baby girl was allegedly stolen from Sishu Bhavan here. The parents of the baby girl are residents of Sunakhala in Khurda district. According to sources, the infant was brought to the government-run hospital in a serious condition in the wee hours of Thursday. […]

Bhubaneswar: The annual budget for 2016-17 will be tabled by Finance minister Pradeep Kumar Amat in the Assembly today. Despite lower revenue generation, the state government will present a bigger budget which is likely to be in the region of Rs 95,000 crore. On Friday, the Odisha Council of Ministers had approved the draft budget […]

Bhubaneswar: Workers of 108 ambulance service will go on cease work for an indefinite period from Friday demanding fulfillment of their seven-point charter of demands. On Thursday, the members of the emergency service had staged a protest at Lower PMG square demanding fulfillment of their demands. The demands include payment of minimum guaranteed wages, 15 […]

Tension ran high in Rayagada town following a scuffle between the police and the BJP workers during a demonstration near the office of the district collector on Thursday

Bhubaneswar is among the 75 A1-category railway stations in the country, said the preliminary report of the survey, which was released by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday

The Govardhana Matha in the pilgrim city of Puri on Thursday demanded the immediate arrest of one Adhokhyajananda, who had claimed to be the Shankaracharya of the matha, on the basis of a non-bailable arrest warrant (NBW) issued by the Puri JMFC in May, 2005

Berhampur Town Police on Thursday registered an extortion case against former Congress MLA from Sanakhemundi Ramesh Jena following a complaint lodged by a liquor trader of Chhatrapur area

Bhubaneswar: State vigilance officials on Thursday arrested Phulbani mining officer Prafulla Kumar Sethi in connection with a disproportionate assets (DQ) case.

The growth rate of Odisha’s economy was 6.16% in the 2015-16 fiscal, said the State Economic Survey report, which was presented by the State government in the Assembly on Thursday

Cuttack: The district and sessions court here on Thursday rejected the interim bail plea of Nirmal Rout, an accused in the murder of the Dhalasamanta brothers’ henchmen Om and Dipu. Rout had appealed to the court to grant bail for his treatment outside Odisha. In the petition, he had mentioned that he needed ultra modern […]