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Bhubaneswar: As the elections to the State Assembly and Lok Sabha draw near, the ruling-BJD is rigorously raking up the issue of Central neglect. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today rapped the Centre that it has not released pending funds worth Rs 6,400 crore to the state with only a month left to the completion […]

Angul: Odisha Forest department has mobilized two elephants from Similipal Tiger Reserve which will be deployed at Satkosia Tiger Reserve. It is suspected that the two trained elephants- Mahendra and Rajkumar has been roped in to track movement of tigress Sundari after it’s release from a special enclosure in Satkosia Tiger Reserve. However, PCCF (Wildlife) […]

Bhubaneswar: Over a hundred passengers traveling in an AirAsia flight had a tough time after the scheduled landing of the plane at the city-based Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) today was aborted due to dense fog at the airport. According to sources, AirAsia FD 112 flight, carrying nearly 150 passengers from Bangkok to Bhubaneswar was […]

Bhubaneswar: Former Union Minister Srikant Jena and ex-MLA of Koraput, Krushna Chandra Sagaria were dismissed from Odisha Congress today on disciplinary grounds. In a press release, the Odisha Pradesh Congress disciplinary committee convenor Ananta Sethi clarified that both the leaders have been dismissed from the primary membership of the party for their anti-party remarks in […]

Bhubaneswar: With barely a few months before the crucial general polls, the Odisha unit of the Congress seemed to be facing severe dissidence with many leaders deciding to quit the party one after another. Close on the heels of resignation of senior leader and Jharsuguda MLA Naba Das, Sundergarh MLA Jogesh Singh today resigned from […]

Bhubaneswar: In what could be a big setback for the Odisha unit of Congress ahead of 2019 elections, Jharsuguda MLA and party leader Naba Das today hinted that he may join BJD on January 24. In an exclusive interview to OTV, Das said, “My supporters have urged me to fight the 2019 elections from BJD […]

Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court of India today appointed former Solicitor General of India Ranjit Kumar as the new Amicus Curiae to oversee reform measures at Puri Srimandir. Hearing on the PIL filed by Cuttack-based lawyer Mrinalini Padhi on the temple reforms, a three-member new bench comprising Justice AK Shikri, Justice MA Shah and Justice Abdul […]

Bhubaneswar: England hockey player Adam Dixon is a local hero here in the capital city for his stint with the Odisha’s home team Kalinga Lancers in the Hockey India League tournament. Dixon who arrived with his other national team members yesterday to take part in the Men’s Hockey World Cup from November 28, opened up […]

Bhubaneswar: Massive protests erupted at several places across the State today against senior bureaucrat and Odisha Sports Secretary Vishal Dev for being blatantly disrespectful to a correspondent of OTV during a press meet in his chamber yesterday. Members of the Youth Congress and Odisha unit of National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) took to streets […]

Bhubaneswar: In what can be termed as a blatant disrespect to the fourth pillar of democracy – the media, the Odisha Sports Secretary, a senior bureaucrat Vishal Dev today asked a reporter of OTV to get out of a press meet he had called. At around 12.48 pm today noon, OTV reporter Niranjan Reddy reached […]

Cuttack: Nearly ten persons, including 3 women, were killed after a bus travelling from Talcher to Cuttack fell off a bridge into the Mahanadi River bed in Cuttack yesterday evening. Out of the 50 injured who were admitted to SCB following the mishap, 7 are in the ICU and 35 have been admitted to the […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court Bar Association on Wednesday called off stir putting an end to the two and a half months long police-lawyer spat. With this, Courts will start functioning from tomorrow, informed president of the association Srikant Nayak. The ongoing controversy between lawyers of the Orissa High Court and the police found a […]

Bhubaneswar: Three days after a Doordarshan video journalist from Odisha, Achyutananda Sahu was killed in an attack by Naxals in Dantewada’s Aranpur of Chhattisgarh, the left wing extremists have now clarified that they had no intention to kill the cameraperson. Releasing a statement, Darbha Division Committee (DVC) of Maoists today claimed that they had no […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress today observed protest in front of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) office here as part of the party’s country-wide agitation against the Centre’s interference in affairs of the nation’s premier probing agency. Hundreds of the party workers led by OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik took out a rally and congregated before the […]

Puri: Devotees at Puri Srimandir were seen today making a queue outside and inside the Srimandir to have a darshan of the Trinity. This practice of queuing up (Dhadi Darshan) came into force today after the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) implemented it. However, when the temple gate was thrown open for public in the […]