Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Thursday, 18 January 2024

Interestingly, the stuff is being sold under code-names like ‘Baba’, ‘Special’, ‘Sukha’, ‘Rocket’, ‘Chinese’, ‘Chamba,’ and ‘Topa’ for anything between Rs 10 and Rs 100 a piece.  More

Devotees in Odisha are even more ecstatic as the State shares a unique connection with Lord Ram. More

As the elections are drawing closer, the state Congress saw one leader after another staging a comeback into its fold after veteran leader Ajoy Kumar was assigned as party’s state in-charge.  More

As per the survey report, around 64 per cent students of 14 to 18 years age group in Sambalpur district don’t know the division. Around 46 per cent students are not able to read a sentence correctly. More

The Revenue and Disaster Management Department issued a notification to this effect on Thursday. More

As per Odisha Chhatra Congress members, BJD is ruining the academic environment of colleges across the State by resorting to political campaigning. More

The agitating aspirants clamoured to declare the marks of the successful and failed candidates. As tension spread on the OSEPA premises, police personnel were deployed.  More

A woman depositor lamented, “I deposited Rs 1 lakh, but only Rs 3000 is left in my account. Recently I deposited Rs 5000 in Sukanya Samridhi Yojana. A total of 1.02 lakh has been siphoned off from my account.” More

The fishermen carried the dolphin on their shoulders to their village. Later, they released the aquatic mammal into the village pond instead of the river. More

BJP alleged that the State government is indulging in corruption and conspiring entry of south-Indian contractors into the technical educational institutions across the State. More

Earlier, 12 complaints of theft in five apartments in Chandaka, Infocity, Bharatpur, and Mancheswar police limits had been lodged with the police. Police came to know that most of the accused involved in the flat loot cases belong to other states. Police got information about the accused from CCTV footage. More

Doctor Balunkeswar Sarangi, who works at Gobara Community Health Centre (CHC) in Belaguntha, has enormous love for trees, especially medicinal plants. And he has manifested his love for plants through his love for his late gardener, Khadal Behera. More

The Orissa High Court in November 2023, expressed its displeasure over the delay in the restoration work of Puri Srimandir Natamandap and directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to start its work from November 16. More

As per reports, quintals of arua rice collected by the Arpan Rath in Malkangiri with Lord Jagannath’s idol in the back of the vehicle, have been lying unused at the local Jagannath temple. More

All the deceased reportedly belonged to Madhya Pradesh and were working with the borewell company. More

Interestingly, this is not the first time that artefacts and remnants of ancient temples have been found in the area. In fact, Odisha’s Ayodhya has been in the news for many such discoveries and findings. More

According to sources, combing operations by security forces are continuing in the forest. There has been no report of any casualty till now. More

Chittaranjan Jena displaced by the project said, "We were told that identity cards will be issued to us. Besides, there will be information plaques where the names of oustees will be engraved. That did not happen. They did not even think it wise to at least give an invitation card on this auspicious occasion.”     More

Significantly, ‘Ramcharita Manas’ a famous epic poem based on the Ramayana, has been written on this special cloth, prepared from Eri silk. The cloth was prepared after getting permission from the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. More

In a heart-wrenching incident, the bodies of twin babies were recovered from a well on Wednesday in Mundadhipi sahi in Basala village under Bantala Police limits of Angul district.  More

In the Kalyansinghpur panchayat of Rayagada district, rice and betel collected through an Arpan Rath have been kept at the panchayat office. Sarpanch Goutam Barli expressed displeasure over it and sought to know why the collected items have not been sent to Puri.  More

Public relations officer (PRO) of the Govardhan Peeth, Pandit Matruprasad Mishra said, "Since the seer’s visit to the famous Gangasagar Mela in West Bengal was pre-scheduled, he has been there for the mela. That’s why he could not attend the ceremony.” More