Odisha

Cuttack: Irate residents of Haridaposi village under Tigiria police limits of Cuttack district thrashed forest staff and the Athagarh forest range officer on Saturday morning after a tusker trampled a youth. Reports said a tusker attacked Kalia Behera when he...

Jeypore: Residents of Bhejaput village under Sunabeda police limits of Koraput district blockaded the Semiliguda-Sunabeda road on Saturday morning after a sand-laden truck rammed into a house killing three sleeping members of a family late on Friday night. Vehicular traffic...

Bhubaneswar: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) under East Coast Railway (ECoR) conducted surprise raids at more than 20 places on Thursday to crack down on illegal e-ticketing agents, during which tickets worth Rs 15.21 lakh were seized. Incriminating materials, including...

New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met here on Friday, during which they discussed employment generation and socio-economic development of Odisha. The CM told reporters: "I am hopeful that a lot...

Bhubaneswar: To make the proceedings and processes of the State Assembly more efficient while reducing cost, the Odisha government has decided to make the House paperless. Talking to mediapersons here on Friday, Speaker of the Odisha Assembly, Surya Narayan Patro...

Bhubaneswar:  The first day, Pahili Raja of the three-day Raja festival was celebrated with much fanfare in the Odisha capital on Friday. Women and young girls were all decked up, dressed up in their best. Some social activists celebrated Pahili Raja with...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Patnaik International Airport, which handled 4 million passengers during the 2018-19 fiscal year, made a profit of Rs 18.56 crore during this period, said the Airport Director, S. C. Hota. He said directors of all airports in...

Cuttack: A case has been registered against Kendrapara MP Anubhav Mohanty in Purighat police station for allegedly misbehaving with a woman journalist. In the complaint, the woman journalist said that Anubhav's brother, Anuprash, had been harassing her for the last...

Baripada: Family members of a pregnant woman, who died on Friday at the Raghunath Murmu Medical College, carried her body all the way to the District Collector's office alleging gross medical negligence. The sight of the body, wrapped in polythene,...

Keonjhar: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly killed his three minor daughters and then committed suicide himself at Ulibasa village under Anandpur police limits in Keonjhar district on Friday. According to sources, the villagers spotted the bodies of the...