Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Thursday, 14 December 2023

It is alleged that the cook took leave today after cooking food and preparing watered rice and other items. The students were forced to consume watered rice. One of the teachers admitted that students, who are supposed to get fresh-cooked meal, had to be given watered rice.  More

The Congress MLA was visibly upset and threatened some people not to irritate him. “Don’t try to challenge me."If I want then I can make the scheme a failure,” he shouted. More

A six-member team of the IT department came in a car in the morning and carried important documents in six bags.   More

Sources said, her intestine is bleeding and the health authorities of the VIMSAR are mulling to airlift her to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics (Sishubhawan) in Cuttack, if the need arises. More

Navigating with the help of Google Maps to visit a place? Sometimes, it may lead you to an undesirable destination. This has allegedly happened with a youth from France who is currently on a visit to Odisha. More

Are you buying land and leaving it unused for years in the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar? Beware! You may not know and your land might be sold off by fraudsters using fake documents. A gang of fraudsters active in the twin cities reportedly sold such patches of land to others by using fake land documents and power of attorney. More

Unnati went on to talk about the facilities and her experience of playing in Odisha and stressed on the importance of such international events for budding players.  More

At a programme in New Delhi on Thursday, the Union Minister claimed that the BJP will garner 45 percent of votes in the 2024 general elections in Odisha. His party had a 22 percent vote share in the 2014 general elections which went up to 38 percent in the 2019 general elections with 8 LS seats.  More

No casualty has been reported in the encounter so far. The gunfight was underway till the filing of the last report. More

Demanding a clarification from the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Odisha BJP chief Manmohan Samal said, “BJD should clarify the ownership of the seized cash. Does it belong to the traders or the BJD’s party fund?” More

As per the order, stringent enforcement on drunken driving, juvenile offence, helmetless driving, driving in excess speed, using mobile while driving, wrong side driving and overloading in goods carriage will be carried out for the entire month of December, 2023. More

The rooster has been named ‘Tiger’ by its breeder Ganapati Biswal for which buyers are reportedly offering as much as Rs 30,000. More interestingly, Biswal named it after the famous movie Tiger starred by Salman Khan. More

While the State government is patting its own back by claiming to provide a good healthcare system, the reality is the exact opposite. As per reports, the DHH at Jagatsinghpur has a sanctioned capacity of 58 doctors. But the hospital has to manage with only 43. More

Biju Janata Dal (BJD) corporator and Works Committee president, Pradipta Khuntia alleged that a tender was given to a supplier despite his objections. More

The accused woman confessed to suffocating him to death using a pillow for allegedly forcing her to keep physical relationship with him and blackmailing her. More

As per reports, a school science exhibition was held at BJB High School in Khordha where 50 students participated from different schools in the district showcasing their science projects. More

The symptoms of the disease include wounds on their bodies including faces and legs. The infected cattle lose their appetite and cannot stand on their legs. Puss comes out of the wounds and the cattle dies after some days. More

Police got a tip-off that a youth of Jhadeswarpur was smuggling the banned substance from West Bengal to Jaleswar.  Police raided and seized 300 gms of brown sugar, two cell phones, a bike, and cash worth Rs 6,000 from the youth.  More

People have started to raise questions if the Income Tax department will only confine its raids to western Odisha and not to other parts where the illegal liquor trade has assumed the proportions of a cottage industry.  More

Gadadhar finished ahead of Joby Mathew of Kerala (137 kg) who won silver, and Gulfam Ahmed of Delhi who registered a bronze with a lift of 134kg.  More

Such practice was recently reported from the Shyampur area which is located on the outskirts of the State capital. More

In a high-intensity fixture of women’s doubles category, the duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto prevailed. More