Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Saturday, 18 September 2021

The family of a youth who died allegedly after his siblings were arrested by the police during the protest, were seen begging for alms to conduct the last rites. More

Convict Budhuni Minz, a former sub-inspector of Mahila police station in Rourkela, is presently posted at the office of Superintendent of Police, Keonjhar. More

The property plundered by dacoits totalled around Rs 119 crore. Moreover, with only a 50 per cent charge-sheeting rate, the recovery rate in the State also stood very low (around 28 per cent). More

A youth, working at Blue Orchid Kalyan Mandap in Patia under Infocity Police limits in Bhubaneswar, was found hanging in a room on Saturday morning More

Manorama Mohapatra was admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack after she complained of chest pain. She passed away while undergoing treatment. More

The accused duo had been selling each SIM card for prices ranging from Rs 50,000 to 1 lakh to prospective buyers. More

Though Agriculture saw a rise in employment in 2020, job losses were highest in the tertiary sector and it was followed by the manufacturing sector in Odisha. State 4th in unemployment rate in country More

As per the latest notification, BMC has said, “The Ananta Brata at Vasudeva temple in Bhubaneswar usually witnesses very large gatherings. However, in view of the current Covid scenario which demands caution and restrictions on mass gatherings.” More

The Odisha government on Saturday announced the dates for the commencement of physical classroom teaching in view of the improvement in the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the State. More

The selection panel of the Odisha Citizens Award-2021 (OCA-2021) met for the second time on Friday to mark the shortlisted nominees as per their merit for the online voting round More

Programme for written examinations to the posts of Ayurvedic Medical Officer, Homeopathic Medical Officer and Dental Surgeon has been released on opsc.gov.in.  More

As per reports, the girl, who became the youngest patient in the country to have undergone the procedure, was tested positive for Covid-19 in June and recovered later. More

DFO Sangram Behera, one of the accused in the sensational death of ACF Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra, underwent the polygraph test for over three hours at the State Forensic Science Laboratory in Bhubaneswar.  More

Pradeep's family members were devastated upon hearing the news and are inconsolable since then More

Chief Engineer, Water Resources Dhiren Samal informed that the water level in the basins of Mahanadi, Baitarani, Brahmani and other rivers is either stable or on a receding trend. “So, there is little likelihood of escalation of flood situation in these systems,” he assured. More

The cyclonic circulation now lies over east-central and adjoining northeast Bay of Bengal extending upto 5.8 km above mean sea level. It is very likely to move west north-westwards and reach Northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha-WestBengal coasts during the next 12 hours, informed the Met Centre in a tweet. More

As per an official statement, free training for skill development will be provided to unemployed youths (in the age group of 18-35 years) having minimum qualification as matriculation passed under the RKVY scheme, an initiative of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY). More

As per a report received at 6 am today, 6.79 lakh cusec water per second was being discharged at Mundali while the water level has receded to 628.21 feet at Hirakud Dam by 9 am today. More

With a view to cut down carbon emissions, the Odisha Cabinet in August had approved the Electric Vehicle Policy 2021. Odisha became the 10th state in the country to have a full-fledged policy for the ambitious project. More

Including pending cases from previous years, the total cases under investigation under PCA stood at 1738. The State Vigilance could file charge sheets in only 153 cases. The charge sheeting rate is just around 9 per cent (8.8%) More

The survey highlights that most of the pre-school and elementary school students have forgotten what was taught to them as the Anganwadi centres remained closed in the State during the pandemic. The pandemic has also slowed down the overall learning process of these children. More

As they say, hard work pays off, Raju has never turned back since then. Now, along with setting up an advanced hair cutting and hair designing saloon in his home town, he has also set up several other branches in different states across the country.  More

Single emergency number 112 works under Emergency Response Support System to address all emergency signals received from citizens through voice call, SMS, e-mail, panic SOS signal, ERSS web portal etc. More