Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Saturday, 24 July 2021

Jamira Singh beheaded the woman with an axe and threw the body at a place near the village on July 9, police said. More

Initiated into the world of crime under the tutelage of noted don Rabin (Rabindra Behera), Haider learnt the tricks of the trade fast More

Despite a rise in child rapes in the State by 645 pc between 2012-19, utilisation stands nil against an allocation of Rs 5.4 cr for setting up of fast track special courts for speedier trial of cases pending under POCSO Act More

The slain gangster's wife held the government responsible for her husband's death and demanded justice More

The patient (Hyder) had arrived at the casualty wing of the hospital in a critical and in ‘gasping condition’ More

The online registration and submission of the application process will start on August 1. The last date for submission of application is August 21.  More

"If an Indian citizen beneficiary has taken first dose of Covishield or AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1 nCov-19) vaccine outside India, the beneficiary can register on CoWIN app at the time of taking the second dose of Covishield vaccine after prescribed time interval and details of first dose can be recorded on the CoWIN app at the same time." More

The incident occurred near Simulia when Hyder was being taken to a jail in Baripada from the Chodwar jail. More

Sankaracharya said the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has not sought his opinion on the reopening of Jagannath temple so far.  More

Commissionerate Police on Saturday seized around 380 grams of Brown Sugar following a raid at Tapoban slum in Bhubaneswar. Two persons have been arrested in this connection. The cost of the seized narcotics is said to be around Rs 38 lakh. The police have also recovered Rs 48,000 in cash from the accused duo. 
 

The IMD has predicted heavy rainfall in one or two places in the districts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Balasore in the next 24 hours. More

Out of the 34 smart parks, 14 will be built inside the silver city. More

For the new generation of children who grew up watching YouTube on smartphones, radio is a thing of the distant past. But there are still some who enjoy tuning on to ‘Aakashvani’ and are thrilled at the buzz of the transistor that once served as the common man’s exposure to the outside world and satiated his craving for entertainment. More

There is little doubt that Odisha government has taken a huge gamble by deciding to reopen schools, even if only for Class X and XII students, at a time when the second wave of the Covid pandemic is not over yet. More

The 4th round of Serosurvey conducted by RMRC revealed that over 85 percent health workers in three Odisha districts have developed COVID antibody. More

Khordha CDMO said an urgent circular will be sent to the district administration to take up precautionary measures to combat the situation. More

Bhubaneswar Railway Station will be transformed into a world class station and the construction work for it will start soon, said East Coast Railway (ECoR) General Manager Vidya Bhusan More

Wasim Jaffer has joined as the chief coach of Odisha cricket team More

Odisha on Saturday confirmed 68 new fatalities due to Covid-19 pushing the death toll to 5,445. The maximum number of 30 fatalities was reported from Khordha district followed by Puri (11) and Angul (8).

The Covid positive tally in Odisha also rose to 9,65,715 after as many as 1,864 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. With this, the active cases in the State stood at 19,013 while 9,41,204  patients have recovered so far, including 2,044 on Friday.

Of the fresh Covid-19 cases reported from 30 districts, 1,082 are from quarantine centres, while the rest 782 are local contact cases, said a data revealed by the I&PR Department.

Khordha district reported the highest 496 cases in the last 24 hours, followed by Cuttack (221), The State has so far tested over 1,54,35,905 samples for Covid-19, including 78,134 in the last 24 hours.

Police said as many as 40 missing cases have been filed at several police stations in the State Capital city in the last one week. More

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday virtually inaugurated three industrial projects worth Rs 436.93 crore. He also laid the foundations for 11 industrial projects with a cumulative investment of Rs 1,100.14 crore. More

An unknown miscreant made a failed attempt to kidnap a five-year-old girl before cancelling the plan midway due to apparent fear of being caught after the child raised an alarm. More

In a major development in the mysterious death case of Paralakhemundi Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra, the Gajapati Superintendent of Police on Friday gave clean chit DFO Sangram Keshari Behera. More

Time for Odisha to take a leaf out of Bihar's book. Youth unemployment rate in Bihar fell sharply to 17.6 per cent in 2019-20 from a high of 30.9 per cent. Whereas, in Odisha, the rate fell to 19.6 per cent from 22.8 per cent More

The crocodiles are unleashing terror in villages. Each of the water bodies here is crocodile-infested. Venturing into a river to take a bath is like risking one's life. People are getting killed at regular intervals. More

The State government's plan to develop Bhubaneswar into a Rasagola hub and set up a cluster at Pahala for promotion of the popular sweet is yet to be implemented.  More