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Tribals in Niyamgiri demonstrate against Bauxite mining
Rayagada (Odisha), May 23 : More than 3000 tribals assembled in Muniguda village of Rayagada district on Wednesday (May 22), to protest against mining in the Niyamgiri hills....
Full StoryOdisha: 5 killed in bus accident
Bhubaneswar, May 23 : At least five persons were charred to death as the bus in which they were travelling hit a roadside tree and caught fire at Balangir district in Odisha on Thursday, the police said....
Full StoryCongress demands CBI probe in Odisha mining scam
Bhubaneswar, May 19 : Accusing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of systematically covering up the mining scam in Odisha, the Congress party here Sunday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into it....
Full StoryOdisha cop suspended for helping murder suspect
Puri (Odisha), May 19 : An Odisha policeman was suspended for his nexus with a murder suspect who was trying to evade arrest, police said Sunday....
Full StoryNHRC summons Odisha chief secretary
Bhubaneswar, May 18 : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Odisha chief secretary for failing to submit a report on the problems faced by patients and Ayush doctors in the state, a petitioner said Saturday....
Full StoryBhubaneswar, May 18 : A man has been arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl in an Odisha village, police said Saturday....
Full StoryOdisha intensifies crackdown on chit fund scams, 177 held
Bhubaneswar, May 17 : At least 177 people were arrested in different parts of Odisha during the past week for their involvement in illegal money circulation and chit fund activities, a police official said Friday....
Full StoryTwo held in 14-year-old Graham Staines murder case
Bhubaneswar, May 17 : Nearly 14 years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burnt to death by a mob in Odisha, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday arrested two absconding accused in the case....
Full StoryTanda Medical College functioning without ICU
Dharamshala, May 16 : Resentment prevails among the people and the Post Graduate students of Dr R P Govt Medical College Tanda over the failure of the state government to get an independent Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the DRPGMC Tanda functional despite an investment of Rs 1 crore. The investment was made for the machinery and other equipments for ICU which had been left without usage since October last year....
Full StoryNaveen asks officials to prevent elephant death due to electrocution
Bhubaneswar, May 16 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today directed the officials to strengthen the poor infrastructure in elephant corridor to prevent their death due to electrocution....
Full StoryOdisha Chhatra Congress demands CBI probe into death of lady doctor
Bhubaneswar, May 16 : Odisha Chhatra Congress,the student wing of the Congress party, today demanded a CBI inquiry into the mysterious death of Ayush doctor Madhabilata Pradhan in Puri last year....
Full StoryOdisha's white tiger safari to stay shut
Bhubaneswar, May 16 : Odisha's only white tiger safari will remain shut for visitors for more time as authorities are yet to decide the fate of a Royal Bengal tiger which walked into it from the wild last month....
Full StoryShah panel members to revisit Odisha May 24
Bhubaneswar, May 16 : Members of a commission of inquiry led by retired Supreme Court Justice M.B. Shah will visit Odisha again May 24 to further investigate alleged mining illegalities in the state, an official said Thursday....
Full StoryElections must be advanced to check looting of money:Mitra
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : The Bharatiya Janta Party today demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and advancement of elections to prevent the looting of crores of state exchequer everyday....
Full StoryStray wild tiger to stay in Nandankanan Zoo- Director
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : A wild male tiger that walked into the White Tiger Safari of the Nandan Kanan Zoological Park in April last week, will stay in the Zoo till a final decision was taken by the Chief Wildlife Warden....
Full StoryBJP rules out any alliance with ruling BJD in Odisha
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : BJP national executive body member and spokesman Chandan Mitra today ruled out any alliance with the ruling Biju Janata Dal(BJD) in Odisha....
Full StoryNaveen urges Manmohan not to permit pooling of prices of imported coal
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to permit the pooling of prices of imported coal with domestic coal in the greater interest of coal rich states like Odisha....
Full StoryCyclonic storm 'Mahasen' intensifies, Odisha govt alerts coastal distts
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : Cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' over West central Bay of Bengal has moved North-Northeastwards and lay centred at about 430 km South-Southeast of Paradeep today....
Full StoryNo alliance with BJD in 2014 elections: BJP
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday that it would not ally with Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the 2014 general elections....
Full StoryBhitarkanika bans tourists as crocodiles nest
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : A two-and-half-month ban on the entry of tourists and visitors to the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha was imposed Wednesday as the crocodile nesting season was underway, an official said....
Full StoryOdisha advises fishermen against going to sea
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : The Met Office Wednesday issued a fresh warning for fishermen in Odisha asking them not to venture into the sea as gusty winds triggered by cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' would prevail along the coast....
Full StoryAccenture to help Odisha in mobile governance
Bhubaneswar, May 14 : Accenture Services will develop five mobile governance applications for Odisha, an official said Tuesday....
Full StoryNew health insurance scheme for farmers family:CM
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, May 13 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a new health insurance scheme for the benefit of farmers of the state....
Full StoryAnnual water sports of Lord Jagannath begins
Puri, May 13 : The 21-day annual water sport summer festival, popularly known as Chandan Yatra, of Lord Jagannath began in traditional ceremony this evening....
Full StoryOrissa-based Ancient Hearbs Realcon group in the net: Sources
Barrackpore, May 13 : Police have made an abortive attempt to arrest Barrackpore-based managing director Subodh Biswas of an Ancient Hearbs Realcon group of companies, headquartered in Orissa, having one of the main offices at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas under Titagarh police station, it is learnt....
Full StoryOdisha alerts fishermen of cyclonic storm
Bhubaneswar, May 13 : Odisha Monday advised fishermen to remain cautious while venturing into sea as gusty winds triggered by cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' would prevail along the coast....
Full StoryJayadev, Sukhdeo to head Congress in Odisha, Jharkhand
New Delhi, May 13 : The Congress Monday appointed Jayadev Jena and Sukhdeo Bhagat as new state unit chiefs of Odisha and Jharkhand, respectively, said a party statement....
Full StoryUtkal alumina refinery to commence trial production
Bhubaneswar, May 13 : The Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a unit of Hindalco Industries, plans to start trial production at its 1.5 million tonnes per annum alumina refinery in Odisha by the end of May, an official said Monday....
Full StoryDeep depression intensifies into cyclonic storm 'Mahasen'
Bhubaneswar, May 11 : The deep depression over Southeast Bay of Bengal has moved North-Westwards and intensified into a cyclonic storm called 'Mahasen'....
Full StoryWestern Odisha reeling under gruelling heat wave condition
Bhubaneswar, May 11 : The entire Western Odisha continued to reel under the gruelling heat wave condition with the mercury hovering over 45 degrees Celsius in several parts for the second day today paralysing normal life to great extent....
Full StoryYouth's body recovered in Odisha
Puri, May 11 : The Police today recovered the body of a youth from the Bhudan settlements situated near the irrigation colony under the Sea beach police station limits....
Full StorySwami Sadhananda to set up 10 cow sanctuaries in Odisha
Puri, May 11 : President of the Hariharananda Gurukula Swamy Sudhananda Giri has announced to set up ten cow sanctuaries across the state to place stray cows and bulls to grow in natural environment....
Full StoryEOW continues raids on chit fund firm, registers 97 cases,110 held
Bhubaneswar, May 11 :In a major crack down against the chit fund firms allegedly involved in illegal money laundering business in Odisha, the Economic Offence Wing(EOW) of the state police continued the raids at several places for the second day today....
Full StoryPPSS condemns arrest of its leader Abhaya Sahu
Bhuabneswar, May 11 : The Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samittee (PPSS) spearheading the anti-POSCO agitation for past eight years today strongly condemned the arrest of its leader and president Abhaya Sahu by the Jagatsinghour police....
Full StoryMercury rises to 46.4 degrees, heat wave sweeps Odisha
Bhubaneswar, May 11 : The heat wave continued to sweep Odisha Saturday, with one town recording over 46 degrees Celsius, an official said....
Full StoryAnti-Posco leader Abhaya Sahu held
Bhubaneswar, May 11 : Anti-Posco leader Abhaya Sahu was arrested Saturday in connection with an explosion that killed three people in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district in March, police said....
Full StoryPosco welcomes apex court's verdict on Khandadhar mines
Bhubaneswar, May 10 : South Korean steel major Posco welcomed the verdict of the Supreme Court Friday regarding recommendation of prospecting licence for the Khandadhar mines in Odisha in its favour....
Full StoryOdisha druggists shut shop to support nationwide strike
Bhubaneswar, May 10 : More than 17,000 retail and wholesale druggist's and chemist's shops remained closed in Odisha Friday in support of the day-long all-India strike called by their colleagues, an official said....
Full StoryIndia's first unique Indigenous MCW shop inaugurated at HAL
Sunabeda, Odisha, May 9 : The state-of-the-art Manned Chamber Welding (MCW) shop, the only of its kind in the country and second in the world after Russia, was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh at HAL's facilities here....
Full StoryOne killed, seven injured by bear in Odisha
Bhubaneswar, May 9 : A bear Thursday mauled an elderly man to death and injured seven others in Odisha's Balasore district, an official said....
Full StoryScientists develop Green Steel to reduce pollution level
Bhubaneswar, May 9 : For the first time in the country the scientists of CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, here have developed a pollution free process for the production of ecofriendly green steel....
Full StoryWild bear mauls old man to death, injures 7 others
Balasore, Odisha, May 9 : Close on the heels of a wild bear killing eight people and injuring five others in Kotpad in Koraput district last last week, another bear which sneaked into the human habitation from the Nilagiri reserve forest today killed a 60-year-old man and injured several others, including a forester....
Full StoryOdisha to set up six new jails,prison academy and 2 open jails
Bhubaneswar, May 8 :Odisha government has decided to open six new jails in addition to the existing 85 in the state now....
Full StoryOdisha towns sizzle at 44.8 degrees
Bhubaneswar, May 9 : It's turning out to be a sizzling summer in Odisha with the the mercury touching 44.8 degrees Celsius in the towns of Sambalpur and Balangir, an official said Thursday. And the heat wave conditions will last for at least the next two days....
Full StorySix killed as train hits vehicle in Odisha
Bhubaneswar, May 8 : Six people were killed and three others injured, some of them critically, when a passenger train rammed into their vehicle in Odisha's Dhenkanal district Wednesday, police said....
Full StoryCong demands probe into BJD leaders link with Chit fund companies
Bhubaneswar, May 8 : Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik today demanded an investigation into the reports of ruling BJD MLAs providing protection to Chit fund companies in the state....
Full StoryAccident affects train services in Dhankanal- Sambalpur section
Bhubaneswar, May 8 :Train services on Dhenkanal-Sambalpur rail line were affected following an accident at an unmanned Level Crossing between Meramandali and Hindol Road Stations in Angul-Dhenkanal section today....
Full StoryOdisha activist seeks release of confined wild tiger
Bhubaneswar, May 8 : An animal rights activist Wednesday demanded the release of a wild tiger who walked into a zoo in Odisha and has been in captivity since the past over a week....
Full StoryBhubaneswar, May 8 : The Odisha government today increased Dearness Allowances (DA) of its employees by eight per cent....
Full StoryOdisha's iron ore output could rise by five percent
Bhubaneswar, May 8 : Odisha's iron ore production is likely to rise by about five percent in the financial year ending March 2014, a senior mines department official said Tuesday....
Full StoryCustodial death:BJP demands judicial probe, Rs 10lakh compensation
Bhubaneswar, May 7 : Odisha unit of the BJP today demanded a judicial inquiry into the alleged custodial death of a tribal in Bhimpur village under Begunia Police station of Khorda district on May 5 last....
Full StoryPRI representative resignation:Jairam Ramesh urged to send team
Bhubaneswar, May 7 : Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) President Niranjan Patnaik has requested Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh to intervene into the 'grave constitutional and governance crisis' created by the resignation of over sixty representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions, mostly adivasis, in Malkangiri district....
Full StoryMaoist leader arrested in Odisha
Bhubaneswar, May 7 : An area commander of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was arrested in Odisha's Rayagada district Tuesday, police said....
Full StoryMaoists bomb Odisha village building
Bhubaneswar, May 7 : Maoist rebels early Tuesday blasted landmines and damaged a government building in Odisha, police said. No loss of life was reported....
Full StoryNational Campaign Humara Bachpan launched in Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar, May 6: Humara Bachpan, a national campaign that advocates for making children living in slums visible to the urban governance policies and through demonstrative models, was launched here today by Odisha Housing and Urban Development Minister Debi Prasad Mishra....
Full StoryBJP condemn demolition of religious institutions by Odisha govt
Bhubaneswar, May 6 : The Odisha unit of BJP today condemned the demolition of religious institutions by the state government ignoring the direction of the Supreme Court and violating its own policy....
Full StoryOdisha govt orders probe into death of 8 people in wild bear attack
Bhubaneswar, May 6 : A high level departmental inquiry was ordered to probe into the death of eight people by a wild bear in Andramunda forest under Kotpat area of Koraput district during the past two days....
Full StoryOdisha to provide Rs6,000 crore agri loan to farmers during 2013-14
Bhubaneswar, May 6 : Odisha government today decided to provide Rs 6,000 crore agricultural loan to the farmers through the cooperative banks in 2013-14....
Full StoryIrate mob set afire Police station:Odisha govt orders probe
Bhubaneswar, May 6 : Odisha government today ordered an administrative inquiry into the burning of the Begunia Police station in Khurda district by an irate mob late last evening....
Full StoryUnregistered Orphanages to be closed
Sambalpur, May 5 : All illegal and unregistered orphanages operating in this Odisha district would be closed, District Collector Balwant Singh said here today....
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