News from Odisha

Upset over paddy procurement through katni chhatni system, aggrieved farmers across the state have taken to the street.

Jani Brinajmen, mother of Netherland hockey team captain said, “We really like to be in India because the crowd is awesome and the country is beautiful.”

The Tribunal passed the order after hearing a petition filed by Dilip Kumar Samantray who has alleged that one Patitapabana Barik has been mining laterite stones from a quarry at Sahadaghai illegally.

The policy will be an amalgamation of different schemes under different departments and it will aim to compensate the farmers in case of crop loss in natural disasters.

Braving all odds, six artistes of Adruta Children’s Group from Keonjhar, who all are orphans, are all set to enthrall the audience with the traditional  Jhumar dance during the 74th R-Day celebrations at Kartavya Path in New Delhi.

Sonali reached New Delhi on January 1 and started training for this big event. 

Amid the allegations of the BJP, the ruling BJD has counter-attacked the saffron party on the same issue. 

 A cyclonic circulation lies over east Equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal in lower tropospheric levels, informed the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday.

According to reports, the former legislator organised the marriage at Laxmi temple located at Nayapalli in Bhubaneswar in a low-key manner after taking the consent of the two families.

In Odisha, the activists of Kalinga Sena staged a demonstration in front of several theatres in Bhubaneswar to protest against the movie.

Though the exact reason behind the death of the leopard is yet to be ascertained, it is suspected that the big cat might have died a couple of days back.

Devotees get chance to see the beautiful Besha of Lord Jagannath on the following day after Mangala Alati rituals.

Former Odisha Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang and his son Shishir Gamang resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday. The father-son duo announced their registration from the party at a presser in Bhubaneswar. 

At a high-level meeting held recently, the Transport Department Principal Secretary proposed the adoption of wet lease procedure to increase the fleet size by roping in private partners (bus owners).

Notably, nobody has appointed Rama for the sanitation job nor she is getting any salary. Every evening when people leave for their homes, Rama steps out of her house.