Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Friday, 22 December 2023

The Odisha Government’s Home Department has enhanced the per-day food packet allowances for various ranks of police personnel. More

An elderly person was allegedly hacked to death at Baragudipada under Balikuda police limits in Jagatsinghpur district on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Prahallad Das. More

To know the plights of these homeless people, OTV visited several parts of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Balasore cities to get first-hand information. More

The recent spurt in Maoist activities in the neighbouring states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh has left Odisha Police worried.  More

The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday launched a scathing attack on the BJD-led government over the issue of social media influencer Kamiya Jani's entry into Puri Srimandir.  More

The Odisha Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Association demanded that the government bear the treatment cost of these children as it is very high. More

The family members of the Gram Rojgar Sevak (GRS) Sukanta Kumar Panigarhi, who died allegedly after being attacked by a sharp weapon on Friday, suspected that the murder could be politically motivated. More

As per IMD, the minimum temperature is likely to rise by 2 to 4 degrees Celsius at several places over the districts of Odisha during the next two days and no large change thereafter. More

Besides the pension demand, the journalists who participated in the celebration also demanded the withdrawal of the restrictions imposed on journalists from visiting Lok Seva Bhawan. More

After a brief lull, a Maoist poster has been recovered in Sundagarh. The poster carries the name of Prem Kumar Jadav, Central Committee member of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI). More

The Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch (CB) reportedly has accessed the call detail report (CDR) of Kashmiri fraudster Sayed Ishaan Bukhari who was recently arrested from Odisha's Jajpur district. Bukhari's alleged terror links are also under scanner. More

A man, suspected to be affected with Cholera, died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital, taking the death toll as per the unofficial sources to 15 on Friday. More

The Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested Chief Civil Supplies Officer (CCSO) Prashanta Kumar Gantayat on the charges of accumulating Disproportionate Assets (DA) in Bhubaneswar.  More

Blaming the Odisha government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pradeep Purohit said that the government does not actually want to accord district status to Padampur. Purohit claimed that the government had made such assurance to the people back then only to influence the voters and win the by-election. More

The districts are Koraput, Malkangiri, Sundargarh and Keonjhar. The SPs of these districts have been advised to tighten security on the border and conduct frequent patrolling in those areas. More

With no respite from the cold wave, at least 16 places in Odisha registered sub-10 degree temperature. More

The Orissa High Court on Friday upheld the merit list of 1104 candidates published by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) for the recruitment of Assistant Section Officer (ASO). More

A division bench of acting Chief Justice BR Sarangi and Justice Murahari Sri Raman on Thursday ruled that the process of reorganization of district, which the State government wants to undertake may continue, but the State cannot pass any final order without the consent of High Court. More

The retired physician, Raghunath Padhi was the CDMO of Jajpur. He was staying with his family at his residence in Bhadrak. More

Maoist posters and banners were also put up at the blast site. As per reports, more than 20 trains were held at different stations due to the violence by the ultras. More

The deceased was identified as Sabitri Giri, a resident of Madhusudanpali. Sandhya Giri, daughter of the deceased said that her mother was admitted to the RGH on Sunday, but succumbed today. More

With Rs 10 IPOs having vanished from post offices in Balasore, people suspect that the short supply of Rs 10 IPOs is nothing but an act of mischief by the government to prevent the RTI activists and people from accessing official information about scams and loopholes in schemes.    More

Governor Raghubar Das is reportedly collecting complaints galore from people while doing rounds of districts in Odisha. He has also started writing letters to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik about the public grievance More

The lion's share of the money amounting to more than Rs 351 crore seized during the recent much-talked-about I-T raids on the properties of liquor traders in Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal was unearthed in Odisha alone.  More

The anti-Maoist movement in Odisha is going to have more teeth as Odisha police has decided to procure sophisticated weapons including corner shot weapons and ultra-modern drones.  More