Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Thursday, 01 July 2021

The government of Odisha seemed to have failed in proper management of Covid pandemic in the 10 category B districts where the infection test positivity rate has not reduced below 5 per cent despite enforcement of lockdown over a period of over a month and half. An opinion poll conducted by Odishatv.in has revealed such startling assumptions by the people in the State. More

The Odisha Transport Department on Thursday increased the bus fare in the State owing to a continuous rise in the price of Diesel. More

Health experts claim that four out of 10 COVID patients are getting cured by the ECMO treatment More

Covid-induced lockdown and the increase in online transactions are believed to be the reasons behind the rise in cyber frauds in Odisha More

The State saw shut down of 69 higher secondary schools in 2019-20. The enrolment at the higher secondary level education dropped sharply by over 3 lakh in 2019-20  More

Odisha BJP has written a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and demanded to extend the validity of tokens by 15 more days so that farmers can sell their paddy without any hassle in the State More

The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha will conduct the special board examinations for class 10 students on offline mode from July 30. More

After a two-month cool-off period, the LPG prices against turned steamy. With the Saudi Aramco quoting the July deal 17 per cent more than June price, and the forecast of Rupee's likely weakening, the LPG prices will keep pinching common man More

As many as 6537 GSTR 3A notices have been issued to Non-Filers during FY 21-22 while 1200 number of assessment U/s 62 have been initiated for non-filing of returns. More

The recruitment drive is for the various posts of Junior Assistant (Clerk-cum-Computer Operator). More

The BJD VP said that desperate race to be on the top and the attempt to cling onto past glory seem to have resulted in such factual death data manipulation More

In a circular, the AICTE has cautioned the educational institutions about “imposters”. More

A Yellow warning for heavy rainfall has been issued for one or two places over the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Nayagarh, Cuttack, Kandhamal. More

The objective of opening the showroom is to offer new designs to its customers and provide work regularly to the weavers associated with the cooperative, its marketing officer Hemanta Mishra said. More

In a major drug bust, Pattapur police seized 3156 kg of ganja from a locked house during a surprise raid at Khaparaganda village in Aska area of Ganjam district. A truck and a weighing machine have been seized and one person arrested in this connection. The market value of the seized contraband is Rs 1.5 crore, sources said.  

A police personnel was suspended on Thursday for brutally kicking a minor tea seller at Kesura area under Sahid Nagar police station in the Capital City on Tuesday More

Nine European nations are accepting Covishield vaccines for travel to their countries, sources said on Thursday. More

Odisha could vaccinate only 49,000 beneficiaries against the set target of 3 lakh on Wednesday. More

The Odisha Government is all set to start Covid-19 vaccination of pregnant woman in the State shortly following a new set of guidelines issued by the Union Health Ministry, stated Health Director Bijay Mohapatra More

It is clarified that moderation in both classes XI & XII will be done by schools only and not by CBSE. More

A petition was filed in the Orissa High Court on Thursday seeking a CBI or court-monitored probe into seizure of a huge quantity of spurious ‘Favipiravir’, a prescribed drug for Covid-19 treatment in Cuttack. A voluntary organisation has filed the petition. Centre, Odisha government, State drugs controller and CBI have been made respondents to the case. 

Interested and eligible candidates are requested to apply for the vacancy through the official website of SAIL- sailcareers.com on or before July 12, 2021. More

Orissa High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar on Thursday inaugurated 15 fast-track special courts dealing with cases under POCSO Act and rape cases through video conferencing. The courts have come up at Cuttack, Balasore, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kalahandi, Kendrapara, Khordha, Koraput, Kandhamal, Rayagada and Sambalpur. Moreover, two civil judge -cum-JMFC courts each at Ersama in Jagatsinghpur district and Polasara in Ganjam district were also inaugurated by the CJ in the presence of other judges of the HC.  

The State government has permitted bus services (inter-district) in the districts falling under category A. The bus services will not be allowed in category B districts as of now More

A youth was critically injured after he was fired at by another youth at Badakantakula village under Bantala police station in the district on Wednesday More

The Odisha Government has extended the deadline for submission of property statement by all government employees by two months till August 31 More

With this, the active cases in the State increased to 31,231 while 8,77,540 patients recovered, including 3,233  on Wednesday, from the disease so far. More

The Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) has decided to postpone some major recruitment tests to be conducted till July 16, 2021 following the extension of the partial lockdown by the State government. More

Phulbani/Bhawanipatna: Amid the second wave Covid-19 scare in the State, Micro Containment Zones have been declared in parts of Phulbani Municipality in Kandhamal district and a village in Kalahandi district on Saturday. The Kandhamal district administration on Saturday declared School Sahi of Dakpala village and five houses in Masterpada under Ward No- 5 of Phulbani […] More

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 cases remained over 400 in Odisha for the second straight day on Saturday with as many as 452 testing positive for the infection in the last 24 hours. The State had reported 461 new cases on Friday. Of the new cases detected from 28 districts of the State, 267 were reported from […] More

The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has released a fresh notification for recruitment to the posts of Assistant Director in Group-B Service of Odisha Statistics as Economics Service Cadre under Planning and Convergence Department.  More

The total number of deficient rainfall districts stood at 24. The July prediction paints no rosy Monsoon dreams. A low pressure near Andhra Pradesh Coast will bring some rain for Odisha on July 14-15. Forecasts show no excess rainfall in State in July  More