Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Saturday, 16 December 2023

As per official reports, the OS shops in 2022-23 utilised 15.34 lakh quintals of Mohua flower for producing liquor. The official figure that the OS shops produced in 2022-23 as much as 644 lakh London Proof Litres of liquor is too fancifully large to be believed. More

Internationally acclaimed sand artist and member of the Srimandir Management Committee, Sudarsan Pattnaik on Saturday wrote a letter to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik requesting him to save ancient artworks falling under the parikrama project.  More

Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, and BJP National Vice-President Baijayant Panda participated in one such programme in New Delhi. More

Professor Deepak Gupta of AIIMS, New Delhi examined Jaga, the survivor of the conjoined Jaga & Kalia twins, at Kandhamal District Headquarters Hospital (DHH). More

The farmers are forced to sell paddy to the traders of the neighbouring state at less than Rs 1,500 per quintal. More

Everyone was taken aback after the party’s MLA and minister started campaigning for party leader Shreemayee Mishra and dropped quite explicit hints that she is Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s choice for the Bhubaneswar Parliamentary seat.  More

Some school students on Saturday showed exemplary courage and overpowered a thief while he was trying to loot from a jewellery shop near the Palasuni Branch of the State Bank of India under Mancheswar Police limits in Bhubaneswar.  More

The recent spurt in diarrhoea cases in Sundargarh’s Rourkela has left the district administration on its toes.  More

In its latest notice, the UGC has warned students to be cautious regarding the courses offered by higher educational intuitions (HEIs) or EdTech companies on agreements with foreign-based educational institutions. More

Preliminary investigations reveal that Bukhari was in touch with suspicious persons in Kerala and some Pakistani nationals too. Apart from this, Bukhari had married at least 6 to 7 girls from various parts of India including Kashmir, UP, Maharashtra, and Odisha. More

Addressing a gathering at a programme held at the Ravenshaw Girls’ School in Cuttack on the occasion of the institution’s 150 years of establishment, Mahtab said, “In sports, there are people who use ‘foul’ technique to take advantage on the field. There are a lot of ‘foul’ people in life too." More

Speaking to reporters upon his arrival at Bhubaneswar airport, Rai said, “The law and order situation in Odisha is not good. People are living in constant fear. Whatever development has happened in the State in the last nine years is only because of the welfare schemes of the Centre.” More

Senior STF officials said that the accused is also wanted by Kashmir Police in relation to a case of cheating and forgery there and one non-bailable warrant is pending against him. More

As per reports, Shakti Maltare and Lemonade Pvt Ltd usually makes beer under several brands after blending the spirit bought from outside, particularly from Boudh Distillery Private Limited where I-T sleuths had raided recently. More

A day after the MP broke silence and clarified that that seized cash from liquor manufacturing units neither belongs to Congress nor any other political party, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday took a jibe at the former. More

The sanctioned bed strength is set to increase from 100 to 120 and from 75 to 150 in ESIC hospital, Bibvewadi, Maharashtra and ESIC Hospital, Rourkela, Odisha, respectively as ESI Corporation accorded the approval for the same during the meeting. More

A large number of explosives and other Maoist materials were found during the search operation on Friday. The search operation will continue till they surrender before the police, informed Boudh SP. More

Two bike riders died in a reported road accident at Bhandaridanda village under Puri’s Satyabadi block. While the exact cause of the accident is unknown, their bodies and a badly damaged bike were spotted on the road this morning by the locals. More

Temperature in some parts of Kandhamal, Sundargarh and Koraput districts in particular have begun to plummet further. More

From this day onwards, Goddess Mahalakshmi leaves for her parent’s home for a month. For this reason, food cooked by Lord Jagannath’s mother (Yashoda) is offered early in the morning. This prasad is known as Pahili Bhog which along with Ballabh Bhog is offered to the Lord during this month. More

Speaking to the media, Sahu said, “Whatever cash seizure is being shown by the media as owned by me, in actuality, they belong to some of my relatives and not me. The matter is between them and the Income Tax department. My relatives will clarify on that later." More

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. More