Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Wednesday, 20 October 2021

From hotels to tours and travels or tourist destinations, the pandemic has left a distinct trail of damage everywhere. And the predicament has probably destroyed the life and livelihood of small businesses more than anyone else.   More

While the SJTA has filed cases against two former amins for their complicity in the fraud, the Puri Collector has launched a probe by constituting a fact finding committee.  More

Age is just a number and Odisha girl Tisya Panigrahi has nailed the adage better than anyone else. At the tender age of just 10 years when children would still be learning how to ride a bicycle, Tisya is now a sensation not only in Odisha but outside as well. More

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is known for securing resignations of as many as 10 ministers during his first tenure (2000-04). The repeated act of serious controversies in his fifth tenure hints at no metamorphosis of governance, despite the promised 5T governance More

The prime accused in the firing and extortion bid incident which left a woman injured in the pilgrim town of Puri on Tuesday was caught after a police encounter today. The main accused identified as a notorious criminal Biju Behera, a resident of Gokhasahi area in Puri had gone into hiding shortly after the firing incident. More

The Commission has also written to DGP, Odisha to immediately arrest all the accused and provide safety to the family of the victim. More

Kulesika along with hundreds of his supporters formally joined the BJD at the office of its youth wing at Bhubaneswar in the presence of several leaders.  More

The arrests were made after a disturbing video of the merciless thrashing of the father-son duo on charge of theft of cash around Rs 2 lakh went viral on the social media, triggering massive outrage in the locality.   More

Speaking to mediapersons, Northern Range DIG Deepak Kumar said the main accused Gobinda Sahu killed Mamata inside his car More

The slapping of conspiracy section on Aryan Khan, investigation still at unravelling state and the Whatsapp chats with Arbaz Merchant, where Aryan used narcotic lingo, and seizure of intermediate contraband from Merchant have gone against SRK's son More

Terming the murder as ‘shameful’, the premier women’s rights body in the State has directed the office of the Kalahandi SP to furnish a detailed report within 15 days, from today More

As per Mamita's father', she left for Mahaling from her village Jharni near Tureikela in Bolangir district on October 8 after receiving a phone call. She boarded the lone bus Bajrangbali which commutes through the area and was received by Gobinda Sahu in a car near Sindhikela Chandatara. Both reportedly roam around the area in the car and also went for shopping, the CCTV footage of which is with the police. More

 Mumbai Special NDPS Court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

The court also declined the bail applications of Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha, the two accused in the same case.

Khan's lawyer said that though the detailed order of Special Judge V.V. Patil is awaited, they plan to "appeal to the Bombay High Court today or tomorrow seeking bail".

(IANS)

As many as four persons including two Sarapanchs were arrested by the Kendrapara police on Wednesday for allegedly beating a father-Son duo at a Kangaroo court in Pattamundai. 

As per reports, the owner of a petrol pump and his minor son had thrashed the father-son duo in the area for allegedly stealing an amount of Rs 1,97,000. The victims were at their receiving end at the Kangaroo court in presence of the Sarapanchs of Bijaynagar and Bahipal.

Along with both the Sarpanchs, the owner of the petrol pump and his son have also been arrested.
 

A youth jumped off the bridge over Kathajodi river between Press Square and Gopalpur in Cuttack on Wednesday morning. Later, his body was fished out from the river by the ODRAF team More

Earlier on Tuesday, police and a forensic expert team with the help of earthmovers took more than two hours and dig a 10 feet deep pit to exhume a charred decomposed body from the stadium in the presence of a Magistrate. Some belongings recovered along with the body were identified to be of Mamita Mamita by her parents.  More

Another 50-year-old woman has sustained injuries on her left hand after she was attacked by the same assailants yesterday. More

A 12-hour Kalahandi bandh was called by the BJP on Wednesday demanding resignation of Odisha Minister of State for Home Affairs, Captain Dibya Shankar Mishra whose alleged links with the accused, Gobinda Sahu in the mysterious missing case of a lady teacher has kicked off a hail storm in political corridors of the State. More

After sitting tight for over 12 days following the mysterious disappearance of Mahalinga Sunshine school lady teacher Mamita Meher, the police finally managed to make some headway in the investigation on Tuesday. More

Trouble seems to be piling up for Odisha Minister of State (Home) Dibyashankar Mishra over his links with Gobinda Sahu, the prime suspect in the disappearance case of Mahaling Sunshine English Medium School lady teacher Mamita Meher. More

Pradipta Naik demanded resignation of the Minister on moral grounds stating that a thorough enquiry cannot be conducted if the Minister himself is in the charge of the Home Department as there will be every chance of conflict of interest. More

The first phase digitisation work has been completed by the Odisha Small Industries Corporation at a cost of Rs 50 lakh while preparations for the second phase digitisation work have been started.   More

The drones which will be operated from a control room will help mount watch over unlawful activities, hardcore prisoners and also monitor other unwanted developments in the sprawling premises of the jails that are not covered under the CCTV surveillance More