Latest Odisha Breaking News Updates - Monday, 04 March 2024

The accused was seething with anger to take revenge over the past incident. In the evening, he reached Bharati’s house and stabbed her multiple times, leaving the victim dead.  More

Missing toddler Pihu’s mother, Monalisha Nayak has urged the Odisha CM to allow her to meet PM Narendra Modi, who is visiting Jajpur district tomorrow. More

Cases of house break-ins & thefts are increasing in Bhubaneswar, leaving the Commissionerate Police at its wit's end.  More

His father Santosh Patra is a priest at the Ganesh temple in Raju Sahi. Following in the footsteps of his father for some years, Asutosh has managed to acquire skills in divine worship, rituals, and mantra chanting. A class-6 student, he also performs well academically. More

As the political parties have already started preparations for the upcoming big political battles, aspiring candidates in constituencies across Odisha aren’t lagging behind as well.  More

For the people of Mundar and Tiadiput in Badsu panchayat under Koraput sadar block, life has always been fraught with danger from the train track on the village outskirts, as they have to cross the railway line every day. More

A day before the launching of the long-awaited passenger train service by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Haridashpur-Paradeep railway line during his visit to Chandikhole in Jajpur, an expert team from the Commission for Railway Safety examined the rail track in Kendrapara.  More

The disgruntled leaders vented their ire against the MLA and said that they would appeal to the Chief Minister not to give a BJD ticket to Sambit Routray this time. More

The written examination will be held in five zones of Odisha-Balasore, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Sambalpur. More

The senior BSF official said that at present the naxal concentration is restricted to one or two districts. Most of the rebels have migrated to Andhra Pradesh or Chhattisgarh. More

Light rain very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Balasore, Bhadrak More

Central Range IG, Ashish Singh said, “For PM Narendra Modi’s visit, we have conducted a briefing with over 3000 police personnel. The area will be under security cover with different verticals of officials engaged in different duties.” More

Visitors can no longer take single-use plastics inside sanctuaries, national parks, and tiger reserves across Odisha from April 1. The ban was announced by the Odisha government on Monday. More

The alleged entry of non-Hindus into Puri Srimandir has acted as a wake-up call for the temple administration as security has been beefed up at the Singhadwar.  More

As per reports, over 10,000 students have taken Urdu as their first language in upper primary, Middle English, fully-aided, and newly-aided high schools in the state. Hence, the government has engaged Urdu and Urdu resource teachers on a contractual basis to impart Urdu teaching. More

The guard of honour was accorded in the presence of Twin City Police Commissioner Sanjeev Panda and Bhubaneswar DCP Prateek Singh at Satya Nagar crematorium in Bhubaneswar. More

The inter-state job racket was being run from Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad but was operating in at least 6 States - Odisha, Jammu & Kashmir, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. More

Former minister and sitting MLA from Telkoi constituency Premananda Nayak and former Dhamnagar MLA and BJD’s rebel leader, Rajendra Das on Monday joined the BJP at a special programme held in Bhubaneswar. More

Patnaik joined the saffron party at its state headquarters in Bhubaneswar in the presence of senior Odisha BJP members including party president Manmohan Samal, Odisha election in-charge Vijaypal Singh Tomar and Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi. More

The court passed the judgement during the hearing of a petition filed by BJD leader Debashish Samantaray on July 3, 2019 who complained that some of the columns prescribed in the declaration paper were struck down by Moquim which requires declaring all the criminal cases against a candidate. More

As per reports, fires have been witnessed in 92 places across the jungles of Odisha till now. Fires are reported from at least 1000 points. However, approximately 96 percent of the fires have been doused. More

In Odisha, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)-led State government has been in power for almost 25 years. But that seems to have led to complacency, so much so that the voters in many places have reportedly started to feel like they have been cheated. More

The embankment breach which occurred in the early hours of Monday is said to be 20-feet in length and gradually increasing as the water gushes through it. More

The online application process has commenced on March 3 and will continue till March 17. More

As per reports, the State Government-sponsored Mo Bus was en route to Nuagaon from Master Canteen when the driver lost balance and hit an auto-rickshaw moving ahead of it. More

Additional Superintendent of Police, Puri, Sushil Mishra said, “We received complaints that some people of other religion entered the temple. We have detained the people who entered the temple. We are verifying their documents and looking into the matter.  One of the detainees is a Hindu.” More

In most Assembly segments, the organizational units of the ruling party are ridden with virulent factionalism and frontline leaders and workers are reportedly disillusioned with local leadership. As a result, the exodus of influential leaders from the party has started. More

Ruling BJD is facing a dilemma in selecting its candidates. The party has already announced that around 50 percent of the MLAs will be provided tickets. However, the party is facing a tough situation to select the rest of the candidates. More

Opposition BJP is also chalking out special strategies to cash in on the situation even as the Congress is trying to strengthen its grassroots base to pose tough challenges to both the BJP and the BJD. More

Starting from Paradeep to Bhubaneswar, the BJD reportedly stands divided with new ticket aspirants becoming rebellious against the incumbent MLAs. On the other hand, disgruntled BJD leaders are now making a beeline for the BJP. More