Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Thursday, 25 January 2024

BJP National Vice President & Mahila Morcha in-charge, Baijayant Panda conducted the organisational review meeting in the presence of Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal, office bearers & others. More

Gopinath Swain, Bhagbat Padhan, Binod Maharana, and Binod Kumar Pasayat from Odisha will receive the Padma Shri. The awards will be conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which will be held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March / April.  More

Odia girl Barnali Sahu took everyone by surprise when she was asked by none other than Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to read out his speech and she did it with panache at DRDO Bhawan in Delhi on Thursday.  More

The tableau will showcase the wonderful craftsmanship and artistry as reflected through Raghurajpur pattachitra, and handicrafts. Moreover, it will highlight women empowerment in rural areas promoted through cottage industries.  More

The girl, identified as a First Year Plus-III Arts student and a resident of Helei village under Kiakata police limits in Boudh, was returning home on her bicycle after college. She stopped all of a sudden on the bridge and jumped into the Mahandi.  More

BJP leader Anil Biswal said, "Certainly, education is not the priority of the government. Even examinations of FM University and GM University have been cancelled for Nua-O. Students were asked to attend the Nua O programme. The state government is against education and the interests of students.” More

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Vice President, Baijayant Panda on Thursday visited Maa Vaishno Devi temple at Komna in Nuapada district.  More

Odisha government’s ‘Nua O’ programmes currently being organised in colleges & Universities continue to draw flak from students for their alleged inappropriate timing and irrelevance to their career prospects.  More

The Nayagarh DFO, DCF, and a joint task force are carrying out the probe. As per sources, forest officials have detained three persons who are being interrogated in connection with the matter. More

During the launch, blood pouches were sent by a drone to the Tangi CHC. In times of emergencies, it will be easier for AIIMS to deliver medicines, testing kits, and other healthcare tools through drones to patients in other hospitals, or people in hilly areas.  More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Odisha on February 3, informed Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP ) state unit president, Manmohan Samal on Thursday.  More

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday caught a senior Goods and Services Tax (GST) officer red-handed while accepting bribe from a contractor in Sundargarh district’s Rourkela.  More

The move is expected to address the issue pertaining to exercising the voting rights of polling officials, informed Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Nikunja Bihari Dhal. More

As per the IMD, the minimum temperature (Night temperature) is very likely to fall by 2 to 3 degree Celsius during the next 48 hours at many places over the districts of Odisha and there will be no large change thereafter. More

The humorous wedding was solemniseed at Master Canteen Square in Bhubaneswar on Thursday with a proper alter and the pundit conducting a yajna with marriage mantras. More

It is alleged that a controversy had erupted between two groups during a cricket match in the village some months back. The matter had even reached the police station. More

Senior officials informed that the registrations for the OJEE 2024 will start from January 25 and the last date is March 25, 2024. More

Born in the Sambalpur district, Nayak completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Burla. He completed his M.Tech degree from IIT-Mumbai in aerospace engineering. More

As per reports, Panda donated her two-storey house spread across 8 decimal of area at Bhutapada in the western Odisha town to the government women’s college in Sambalpur. Her home will be used as a hostel for boarders of the college. More

Santosh Kumar Jena from Totagaon under Ganjam’s Khallikote NAC mesmerised everybody in his village by creating a rangoli sculpture of Ram Mandir. More than 30 kg of Rangoli has been used to create the sculpture which has a size of 345 sqft. More

A total of 1132 personnel of Police, Fire Service, Home Guard & Civil Defence and Correctional Service have been awarded Gallantry/Service Medals, informed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). More

As per reports, thousands of packets of paddy at Barikel Mandi in Odisha’s rice bowl, Bargarh have been waiting to be lifted by millers since the last one month. But it has been alleged that neither the millers nor the Regulated Market Committee (RMC) cared for their plight. More

As per the UGC, the GO4Youth Olympiad is a distinctive interdisciplinary programme tailored for students aged 18-25 years in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across India. More

As per reports, the deceased were sitting on the third railway track which is being laid between Rayagada and Koraput when a test train engine hit them near Singhpur killing them on the spot. More

The Odisha Civil Services Main (Written) Examination-2022 will start on February 25, 2024 and continue till March 3, 2024. More

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate the Samaleswari Temple Area Management and Local Economy Initiatives (SAMALEI) project on January 27. More

In the message, the college principal asked the students to reach the college campus by 9 am. From there, they will be shifted in a bus to Panchasakha Padia where they will get Rs 150-snacks packets.  The message also mentioned that the state government has made provision of Rs 350-biriyani packets along with water bottles at 1.30 PM.  More

Cabbages and cauliflowers have been cultivated in hundreds of acres of land in Ganjam, Niali, Athagarh and other parts of the state. But now the farmers are selling their produce at a paltry Rs 2 to 3/ kg to traders, incurring huge losses. They fear the distress sale will certainly push them into the debt traps. More

Former MP and BJP leader Balabhadra Majhi said, "It will hardly take a year to acquire land for the project. Six years have passed, but the state government could not acquire an inch of land. Which is the priority project - the railway line or the airport in Malkangiri?” More

The report says there are 925 girl children at birth for every 1,000 boys in the state while the sex ratio has been abysmally low at put at 8:10 in Nayagarh, Ganjam, Cuttack, Subarnapur, Jagatsinghpur, Dhenkanal and Jharsuguda.   More

Incumbent Police Commissioner Soumendra Priyadarshi has been transferred and appointed as Intelligence Director. More