Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Friday, 14 January 2022

The Excise department on Friday seized over a tonne of ganja stashed inside an oal-laden truck from Koraput. More

Citing the relentless uptrend of Covid-19 case graph in the State, the agitating students urged the OPSC Chairman to consider the health of the candidates before the conduct of examinations. More

As many as five tribal districts have now started recording a weekly positive rate of over 5 percent. A Cambridge University report predicts the peak in the fourth week of January More

The irony is that the Fort’s moat is crying for attention. It is in urgent need of restoration. More

Many places in the State are going to receive rainfall induced by the second Western Disturbance More

As per IMD's Annual Climate Summary-2021, Odisha reported only 4 deaths in 3 cyclonic storms More

The coal extracted from Rampia Coal Block is reportedly supplied to brick kilns and industrial units in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. More

Owing to the third wave surge these days, the Capital Hospital has been struggling to maintain healthcare services up to the mark. More

As many as 11 places were declared micro containment zones by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today from where multiple cases of Covid infections have been detected.  More

The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has sealed the court premises of the Cuttack Civil Judge, District & Sessions Judge and Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) in Cuttack on Friday marking them as containment zones following detection of multiple Covid positive cases. More

A video of the alleged police brutality went viral on social media. More

All the implicated students and their parents have been asked to submit declaration /undertaking in prescribed format in the office of the Dean, Students' Welfare by January 31, 2022. More

Tired of the apathy by public representatives, the people of Das Sahi alleged that the politicians make promises before every election that they will construct the road but forget it as soon as the elections are over. More

Two individuals in Odisha have set examples for others by building an equal number of bridges across rivers to provide succour to fellow villagers More

As per the schedule, the train will depart from Baripada on Thursday night at 11.50 am and arrive at Puri station at 7 am the next day. More

Making things worse, hundreds of paddy sacks have been drenched in the unseasonal rain More

Meanwhile, the doors of Srimandir have remained closed for the public since January 10. The shrine will remain shut till January 31 in view of the rising cases of Coronavirus in the State and also the detection of some cases in the shrine. More

The MBBS exam, which has been postponed due to the Covid-19 surge, was scheduled to begin on January 15 More

The rise in the Odisha forest area by 537.44 sq km between 2019 and 2020 is more than the 237 sq km growth during the previous two years. More

Odisha so far has tested 26,479,398 samples, including 75,731 in the last 24 hours, for Covid-19 while the test positivity rate stood 13.5 per cent in the State. More

Light to moderate rain or thundershower is very likely to occur at a few places over the districts of Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Ganjam, Gajapati and at one or two places over the rest of the districts of Odisha on January 16. More

Following the approval of the State government’s proposal by the Personnel Department, Mohapatra’s tenure will be extended for six months More

The festival is also celebrated in a grand way at the Jagannath Tempel in Puri, at Hatakeshwar temple at Atri in Khordha district, Dhabaleswar Temple in Cuttack and Makara Muni temple in Balasore.   More

The health department said all elective surgeries are to be stopped and emergency surgeries need to be taken up with universal precautions. It prohibited entry of media representatives inside OPD and IPD of hospitals.     More

With the publishing of the gazette notification by the Odisha government to reserve the Mayoral seats in Berhampur and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporations for women candidates, speculations are rife over the probable women contenders in three major political parties, BJD, BJP and Congress. More

In view of the present COVID-19 situation it has become essential to provide health services and advice by alternative means, the Health department said. More

This time around, Facebook and WhatsApp are going to be flooded with videos of candidates making enticing promises and hankering for votes. More

Bizarre it may sound, but Ananda Panjawani, who owns a paan shop at Parsuram Chhak in Kantabanji town of Bolangir has made locker facility to facilitate storing of pans for the regular customers. More