Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Dayal Gangwar has been appointed as ADG (Police Modernization) while IPS officer Rajesh Kumar, currently posted as ADGP, Modernisation, has been transferred as ADGP, Railways & Coastal Security with the Additional charge of Director of the State Forensic Sciences Laboratory (SFSL). More

A 17-year-old boy stabbed a student of a degree college to death Kairansi village under Khallikote Police limits on Tuesday. What was very disconcerting about the incident was that the juvenile delinquent committed the crime after returning from a Bal Sudhar Gruha (juvenile home/borstal for young offenders). People were shocked by such an incident.  More

As per the allegations, the Nua-O programme of the State government is ruining the academic atmosphere on campuses. More

Local residents claimed that just hours after taking food at the programme, many villagers were taken ill. ‘Stale dal’ was served to them at the programme, they alleged.  More

Who drove out a group of differently-abled roadside vendors, who had been staging a sit-in outside the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office, last night? This question is now doing the rounds as the family members alleged that the agitating divyangs are untraceable after they were forced out of the agitation site last night. More

After considering the argument of both the parties, the court reserved its hearing. More

As per reports, looters managed to enter Kalyani Whites Apartment at Bhimpur and broke into three flats. The occupants of the concerned flats were reportedly out of station. Altogether, valuables amounting to over Rs 30 lakh were stolen from three flats.  More

The tickets for the West Stand and East Stand are priced at Rs.500 and Rs.200 respectively. Meanwhile, North Stand and South Stand tickets are priced at Rs.100. More

The girl has been admitted to Cuttack SCB Medical College and Hospital in a critical condition. More

The PCC president said, "A roadshow will be conducted in Rourkela, from Rajgangpur to Sundargarh, Gadagaon and Uttara. He will have a night halt at Jharsuguda on February 7. The next morning, he will lead the Yatra to Belpahar, Hrudaynagar, and Kanaktara before entering Chhattisgarh." More

As per reports, he got a call from a man who identified himself as an Indian Army officer. The fraudster then told Prashant that a team of Indian Army officers would stay in Paradip for 15 days. They would need 15 kg of chicken every day for food and asked Prashant if he could supply them the same. More

Swinging into action following the robbery, the personnel of the district police chased the robbers and nabbed them from a jungle near Dabugaon. More

As per reports, the BMC has not only expanded the area of the dumping yard for waste processing, it has also built connecting roads to the TTC for easy plying of trucks carrying waste. More

Sources said the woman named Sakhi Bariha stopped a cultural group midway while singing songs praising the Odisha government and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The group sang about the free rice and houses distributed by the Odisha government. More

Sources in the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Party claimed that Kalpana might take over the top job if her husband gets arrested in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. More

Sources said eight persons from Pandara area in Bhubaneswar had come to a food stall at Jagamara on Tuesday night when a group of men suddenly attacked them leading to a clash. More

As per reports, a patient with ventilator support needed immediate attention. There was no power at the hospital, so the doctors treated him with the mobile phone torch light. More

As per reports, the Dibyang persons were carrying out their small businesses at Market building. After they were evicted, they had been demanding permanent rehabilitation.  More

Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress has got its new president. Meenakshi Bahinipati, wife of senior Congress leader and Jeypore MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati has been appointed as the president of the state Congress’ women wing.  More

Apartment buyers are facing a lot of inconveniences in getting their flats registered. Many people in Bhubaneswar have invested lakhs by booking individual apartments in the housing projects of private builders, but they have not got ownership of their flats in the absence of an apartment ownership law.  More

The Special Judge, CBI Cases, on Tuesday, sentenced a bank branch manager to four years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case.  More

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to present her sixth and this government’s final budget ahead of the elections for the fiscal year 2024-25 on February 1.  More