Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Tuesday, 17 August 2021

A total of 63,500 primary school teachers will be promoted in Odisha, informed the School & Mass Education Secretary Satyabrata Sahu on Tuesday More

Bhubaneswar police arrested a man on Tuesday on charges of stealing vehicles on the pretext of engaging them at his office on a contractual basis More

The World Anthropological Union (WAU) has withdrawn its plan to hold the next World Anthropology Congress at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneswar in 2023. More

The procedural re-engineering and administrative reform in the Odisha SPCB started in 2015 under the leadership of Mohapatra during his tenure as the principal secretary and subsequently additional chief secretary of the Forest and Environment Department, according to the release. More

The cashier of the filling station, Manabendra Das was transferring cash into a van in the afternoon when the miscreants approached on a bike and shot him twice before decamping with the cash. More

The Odisha government will continue to support the teams for another 10 years in recognition of their achievement and potential to be the top teams in the world, Patnaik said. More

The Indian men's & women's hockey teams arrived in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday where they received a grand welcome from the fans as well as the minister of sports and Secretary of sports More

The Central government has allotted 27 per cent reservation in education and recruitment. However, the State government has failed to meet these standards. More

In a major drug haul, 2 kg brown sugar was seized during a joint raid by police and excise department officials in Jaleswar area of Balasore on Tuesday. The contraband was seized from Rajpur Basti in the district. Two persons were arrested in connection with the illegal trade. The approximate value of the seized narcotics is Rs 2 crore.
 

The timeline of application and entrance examination for admission into Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) and Bachelor of Hindi Education (B.H.Ed) courses have been released.  More

A watchman made a startling revelation that District Collector of Gajapati was present at Divisional Forest Officer (DFO)'s quarters when the fire mishap occurred that led to death of assistant conservator of forest (ACF) Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra. More

As the protest by the Kharasrota Sangram Samiti members reached Day-3 at the mega drinking water project site at Bharigada in Kendrapara, a BJP team visited the project site on Tuesday More

BSE is offering one more chance to schools for correcting their data which they have uploaded during enrolment of candidates in Class-IX during 2020. More

The Vigilance sleuths arrested the Private Secretary to a Member of OSSC- Biranchi Narayan Sahoo following raids at different locations on July 30. He came under Vigilance scanner following allegations of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. More

The second wave of Covid pandemic is receding in Odisha gradually, its impact on children is discernible More

A north-south trough runs from the cyclonic circulation associated with the Low Pressure Area over coastal Odisha and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal More

An elderly man was allegedly hacked to death by his daughter-in-law following a family dispute at Ranapal village under Belagadia block on Monday More

Amid beats of dhol, traditional dance and cheers, the hockey teams were given a grand welcome at the Biju Patnaik International airport. More

The online application process for +3 admissions in Odisha will start from August 20, 2021. More

The Odisha government may re-cast its Civil Services Coaching scheme to better the prospects of entry of aspirants to the national and state bureaucracy. The State Higher Education department has flagged such a possibility in a letter to the Chief Resident Commissioner, government of Odisha. More

Police on Tuesday busted a factory allegedly manufacturing duplicate cement in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar More

Two Excise department officials of Rayagada have been accused of hatching a plot to take bribe from a liquor distributor after a video of the purported conversation to crack the deal between them went viral on social media More

The Odisha government has asked the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar to conduct state-level serological surveillance in 12 districts.  More

The National Handloom Award for 2018 was announced by the Central government with nine Odia artists nominated for the same. More

A doctor working in a Covid hospital was allegedly attacked with knife by a youth following an altercation in Jagamara area of Bhubaneswar on Monday.  More

The Odisha Civil Services (preliminary) Examination-2020 will be held on August 27. The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has announced the date of availability of Admission certificate (admit card). More

Following the launch of operation 'White Spider', the Bhubaneswar Police on Monday issued a Whatsapp number for the public to inform them about the illegal drug trade in Smart City More