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COVID-19 vaccine is finally here! With vaccination to kick-off from January 16, these vans carrying vials of vaccines marked the end of a long wait for Odisha in the fight against Coronavirus. The first consignment containing vials of Covishield vaccine dispatched from Serum Institute of India in Pune reached Odisha at around 3:30 PM today

Cracking the heinous murder of a girl from Balasore, the police arrested a couple from Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. The girl, who was working as a domestic help in Bhubaneswar was allegedly beaten to death by the couple. The accused couple had then dumped her body in Ganjam district to hide the crime.

After a series of raids at food adulteration units in Cuttack, a similar unit has been busted in Capital City Bhubaneswar as well. A joint team of Airfield Police and Quick Action Team (QAT) busted a duplicate ghee manufacturing factory at Kaibalya Nagar in Sundarpada area of Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.

A day after receiving COVID-19 vaccine Covishield from Pune’s Serum Institute of India, the first consignment of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin dispatched from Hyderabad landed at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in the capital city today.

Youths should be responsible and no parents should go through this trauma. These are the messages from the parents of Anupama, who died in a horrifying accident while taking selfie in Ib River. Anupama, a resident of Kumbharpada in Rajgangpur of Sundergarh district, slipped and fell into the strong currents of Ib River after another man slipped and dashed into her.

Keeping in view the adverse impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the people of Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik directed the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) to waive off the matriculation examination fee for the 2021 examination.

A gas tanker carrying LPG overturned on NH-16 near Tampara in Chhatrapur area of Ganjam district today resulting in disruption of vehicular movement on the National Highway.

Two persons were critically injured while several others sustained minor injuries as a private bus that they were travelling in overturned at Amapani ghat in Kalahandi district.

At an age when most kids just start learning about geography, here is a boy from Damana area of Bhubaneswar with books’ worth of trivia at the tip of his tongue. Meet, Pratyush Raj Swain, who is also popularly called the ‘Geography Boy’. This child prodigy has proved that one’s curiosity and dedication can help master the unthinkable in life.

With Makar Sankranti round the corner, special sweets and ‘Tilau’ are in great demand in Balasore. During this auspicious occasion, one can find all kinds of popular sweets of Odisha including varieties of Khaja, Gajaa, Rasabali, Malpua and more. Balasore Khajaa is not visually appealing, but it is a treat for the taste buds as well.

When one thinks of Koraput, the images of greenery, waterfalls and clusters of mountains flash by. Then it is the captivating aroma from the coffee farms. Within this opulence, one can also catch wafts of aromatic cardamom. Yes you heard that right! Now Koraput is also making its presence felt in cardamom cultivation along with other spices which have added to the agricultural base of the area.

This Makar Sankranti, you can fly kites, but make sure you don’t use dangerous glass-coated strings from China popularly known as the Chinese Manja. You will be in for big trouble for violating this rule.

Condemning the brutal murder of BJP leader Kulamani Baral & his associate in Mahanga, the saffron party National Vice-President, Baijayant Panda demanded stern action against the culprits. While meeting the family members of Late Kulamani Baral in Nurtang village under Mahanga in Cuttack, Panda said that the law and order situation in the State has completely deteriorated.

In a major development in the Nayagarh minor girl murder case, the mother of the victim has moved the Supreme Court demanding a CBI probe. The mother of the victim filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India in exercise of her right to Constitutional remedies.