Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Thursday, 05 August 2021

Indian National Hockey player Amit Rohidas spoke exclusively to OTV after the teams Bronze Medal win at the Tokyo Olympics More

Miscreants looted gold jewellery, cash, mobile phone from a lecturer on the pretext of showing her driver an oil leakage in the engine More

An INCOIS study had said a high of 20 cyclones occurred during the La Nina years, while nine were in the El Nino period. IMD studies show negative IOD results in stronger than usual cyclone genesis in the Bay of Bengal More

Physical classes for Class 9 students will resume in government, government aided and private educational institutions from August 16. More

Dengue situation in Odisha is under control, said the Director of Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar on Thursday More

The Odisha government has decided to distribute smart health cards among 92.50 lakh households in the State. More

Noted writer Paramita Satpathy will be awarded the prestigious Sarala Puraskar instituted by IMFA's charitable wing IMPaCT for her novel ‘Abhipreta Kala’ which has been published by Paschima Publications, Bhubaneswar in the year 2016. More

The miscreants ransacked the rented accommodation of the MLA at Nirmaljhor area in Khalikot. More

The historic win by the Indian Hockey Team in Tokyo Olympics today had a cast in bronze that is made in Odisha. The one and only one Amit Rohidas - cast in steel from the Panposh stable More

The police on Thursday fished out the body of a student of Christ College in Cuttack who had gone missing on Wednesday. More

The Odisha government will now turn its attention to aggressively vaccinate people against Covid-19 in the rural pockets of the State so that the inoculation exercise can be completed to a large extent before a possible third wave of the pandemic hits the State, Director, Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department, Bijay Panigrahi said on Thursday. More

One of the masterminds involved in the fake invoice racket to the tune of Rs 641 crore was arrested from Bhubaneswar on Thursday. More

Cycle sharing system to emerge as a means to provide first and last-mile connectivity in Bhubaneswar would depend on when the city can have safe and dedicated cycle tracks. More

The offline HSC examinations were conducted for the students who were dissatisfied with the marks awarded to them through an alternative assessment mode More

Chief Administrator of SJTA Krishan Kumar had yesterday informed about the reopening of the 12th-century shrine for devotees from August 16 after a meeting with the Chhatisa Nijog. More

The Odisha Unit of BJP today alleged that BJD supporters are allotted pucca houses under Awas scheme while real beneficiaries are deprived of the scheme More

The famous Bhitarkanika National Park has reopened for tourists from today after remaining off the limits to the public for around three months for the mating and nesting season of saltwater crocodiles. Gupti, Dangamal and Hukitola areas in the national park have been opened for the tourists. 

The Forest department had closed down the National Park on May 1 and originally it was scheduled to reopen on July 31. But later, the park's closure period was extended till August 8 due to Odisha government Covid guidelines.

Rajnagar Assistant Conservator of Forests, Adhir Kumar Behera said that tourists will be allowed to enter the wildlife sanctuary with strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols. However, there are some restrictions on entry to the national park. The park and sanctuary will be opened during the daytime in the initial phase but decision on the night stay will be taken by the State headquarters authorities.

Celebrations poured in across Odisha after India Men's Hockey Team clinched a Bronze medal by beating Germany 5-4 in Tokyo Olympics More

The active cases in Odisha remained at 13,516 while 9,63,718 patients have recovered from the disease so far. More

The lawyers launched the stir on August 2 and will continue till August 9. A representative from the Orissa High Court Bar Association will meet the Chief Justice Dr Justice S Muralidhar for a discussion of the matter. More

The High Court has directed the Crime Branch to register fraud case against those who availed the insurance cover from the company More

Students have been advised to refrain from doing any deal with any private agency or agent and give them documents for admission. More

One of the relatives of late Paralakhemundi Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra brought serious allegations against a State Minister in the case.  More

Days after the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) claimed to have achieved 100 percent vaccination against Covid-19, the serpentine queues at vaccination centres in the Capital city has heated up political blame game. More

As per SUTRA model creator Prof Agarwal, the contact rate or the Rt value in the country need to be brought down to 0.33 -0.35. This will then prevent the third wave. The Rt value in over 15-districts in Odisha is in the range of 0.9-1.5. No single district has Rt value of around 0.5 More

Orissa High Court released a recruitment notification for the posts of Junior Stenographer in Group-C in the High Court's establishment. More

In contrast to the projected person-days of over 3.9 crore for the year 2021-22, the actual person-days generated till June end in the State had been 7.7crore, which is 197 pc more than the target More