News from Odisha

Bollywood celebrity Malaika Arora was recently clicked by the shutterbugs while she flaunted a casual look in Mumbai. Malaika who is often spotted sporting trends and giving fashion enthusiasts new inspirations, did not fail this time as well!

Odisha saw a sharp jump in daily COVID-19 cases today with Kalahandi reporting as many as 57 new cases in the last 24 hours.

Bollywood actress & model Gauhar Khan was recently spotted by the paparazzi with her husband Zaid Darbar in Mumbai. Gauhar was seen maintaining safe social distance from the media and even offering sanitizer to the paparazzi as they interacted with her.

A decomposed carcass of a female elephant was found at Ranibania Reserve Forest under Khutnuni Range in Athagarh Forest Division on Tuesday (March 30). Even though the exact reason of the death of the pachyderm is yet to be ascertained, the forest department suspects it died due to a viral infection.

Ragging allegations surface yet again in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT)! A second year student of VSSUT alleged that he was ragged by his seniors inside the varsity campus.

After reports emerged that hackers have allegedly leaked sensitive data of around 10 crore MobiKwik users and put them up for sale on the darkweb, mobile payments and digital wallet company MobiKwik has refuted the claims of data breach and said it would get a third-party forensic data security audit done.

Following a row over the allegations that a passenger was pushed out of the moving public transport bus operating under the ‘Mo Bus’ services, a purported CCTV footage from inside the concerned bus has emerged showing the details of what exactly transpired.

The Commissionerate Police busted a sex racket running in an apartment in Laxmisagar area of Bhubaneswar on Tuesday night. During the raid, the police rescued two women from Kendrapara and Puri. Police also nabbed two persons identified as customers.

  Heatwave is likely to intensify due to which the regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Bhubaneswar has issued orange warning for 21 district of Odisha till April 2.

Bhubaneswar broke the all-time record as the capital city boiled under sweltering heat today. According to the regional office of the India Meteorological Department, Bhubaneswar set a new record for the Month of March after recording maximum temperature of 44.2 degrees Celsius.

Amid rising cases of COVID-19, a lecturer of Rama Devi Women's University tested positive for the virus on Wednesday (March 31).

With the state witnessing an uptrend in daily cases of COVID-19, the Odisha government on Wednesday issued fresh set of guidelines for effective control of novel-coronavirus infections. The guidelines will be in force in the state from April 1 to April 30.

Jajpur: Dasarathpur village of Jajpur district witnessed a footfall of thousands of people after the remains of a Shiva shrine were found in the Baitarani river here on Tuesday. The remains of the temple and an ancient lingam were reportedly found near the Siddheshwar Temple in the locality. As per reports, the top portion of […]

Bhubaneswar: In an all-out attack against the Odisha government, a delegation of BJP MPs from Odisha led by Union Minister of Petroleum and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday accused the ruling-BJD of misleading the farmers on issues of paddy procurement. Pradhan, who led the team from the State and met the Union Consumer Affairs, Food […]

Bhubaneswar: The byelection to the Assembly constituency of Pipili has been announced. The Election Commission of India has declared that the bypoll to the Pipili segment will be held on April 17. As per a notification released by the ECI, the gazette notification for the byelections to Pipili and 13 other Assembly constituencies in other […]