Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Friday, 15 December 2023

The school authorities had printed an invitation card for its annual function held on Friday. In the invitation, the names of the chairperson of the Paradip Municipality Basant Biswal and the state secretary of the BJD Pramod Jena were printed as the guests of honour. Surprisingly, their names were allegedly struck off from the guest list in the invitation.  More

Considering the huge rush of farmers and their inconvenience at the branch offices of Union Bank of India (UBI) in Nabarangpur district, the Odisha Lift Irrigation Corporation (OLIC) has extended the deadline for depositing their beneficiary share at the bank.  More

Devotees visiting the shrine will be encouraged to carry puja materials like flowers and bhogs in paper, cotton bags, bhogei, small bamboo containers, and small wooden baskets inside the temple, said SJTA chief administrator Ranjan Das. More

The Odisha transport department has also made the fitment of Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD) mandatory for all the vehicles from next year (2024).  More

Locals have raised objections to the road and wondered if this road will only meant for the VIP movement. A volley of questions has cropped over the project. What is the need for Sridanda when the holy town has a sprawling road like Bada Danda? More

The EOW registered a case, following an allegation from Abhisek Panda, the Executive Officer, Barbil Municipality on March 23, 2022, that Rs 2.5 crore was fraudulently withdrawn from the bank account of the municipality with clone cheques and his forged signature.   More

If you are a vendor and receiving digital payments through a QR code, then beware. A new kind of scam came to the fore in Bhubaneswar. More

Following the day’s result Sports Odisha are yet to register points in their campaign while Odisha FC secured their first three points of the season.  More

The High Court has given the last chance to the State government in this regard. The next hearing on the matter is scheduled to be held in the first week of January 2024. More

Two teams of I-T officials carried out a raid on the beer-making factory of Shakti Maltare and Lemonade Pvt Ltd at Machhigan under Tumusinga police limits.  More

29-year-old Gagadhar Sahu has emerged from adversity to bag a gold medal for Odisha in powerlifting following an impressive 140kg life in the 58kg category. More

As per the Director of Capital Hospital Dr Laxmidhar Sahu, the number of dog bite cases has increased in the last one month and special care will be taken in this regard soon. More

BJD leader Debi Mishra announced that 5T chairperson VK Pandian will not fight elections even as the ruling party has also decided to postpone elections to its oranisational structure by a year.  More

In a broad daylight crime, a college-going student was allegedly stabbed to death by three bike-borne miscreants in Rayagada district on Friday.  More

While Mishra denied Pandian’s direct nomination filing in the next election. However, Mishra further said that there would be no issues if Pandian decides to contest the election. More

However, she has infections caused by wounds she sustained inside the borewell iron pipe, informed VIMSAR Superintendent Lalmohan Nayak. More

Accusing the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government of liquor trade corruption to the tune of Rs 50,000 crore, the saffron party demanded a detailed CBI probe into the incident. More

As per reports, three labourers had gone to sleep after working at the brick kiln on Thursday night and left a diesel generator running inside their sack. Two of them were found dead in the morning while the third labourer was rescued in critical condition. More

The Council of Higher Secondary Examination (CHSE) on Friday announced the complete schedule of the plus 2 examination 2024. More

The raid comes in the wake of the personal appearance of the CMC Deputy Commissioner before the Orissa High Court. The official stated that the roadside poultry shops in Cuttack will be closed soon. More

Nath, who wore a police uniform, was initially apprehended by a local journalist while the former was allegedly extorting money from the locals in Sourasahi and Telisahi area of the town. The journalist called the police who subsequently arrested Nath. More

Out of the 12 companies of SOG, seven have been engaged from Kandhamal and five companies are from Boudh. As many as 300 jawans are now carrying out the combing operation following the exchange of fire with the red rebels in the same area on Thursday. More

As per reports, the garments and furniture of Gopal Chandra Sahu’s house in Govindpur village are allegedly catching fire in the last few days without any reason. The ‘spontaneous fire’ has not only resulted in the loss of property, it has forced the locals to call a black magician to prevent such a phenomenon. More

As part of the non-cooperation strike, the doctors are not issuing injury reports of the accused to the police. As a result, police are finding it hard to produce the accused in the district to court. More

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