Top Stories

Baripada: A female elephant that was undergoing treatment after allegedly consuming explosive-laced food, succumbed to its injuries Saturday, raising serious questions about wildlife security and the Forest Department’s response. Animal activists alleged that the forest department attempted to suppress information about the death. Wildlife activists...

By Reshmi Yadav, OP Bhubaneswar: With Christmas celebrations set to begin tomorrow, the Capital city has come alive in festive splendour, as churches, streets, malls and restaurants are decked up with lights and decorations, filling the air with cheer. From illuminated marketplaces to specially curated...

Bhubaneswar: SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) in Cuttack will soon have a 12-storey parking facility, Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department sources said Tuesday. This was revealed after Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi reviewed various programmes of the H&FW department at Lok Seva Bhavan...

Dunguripali: At least 20 passengers were injured including three of them critical after a picnic bus carrying schoolchildren, teachers and parents for picnic rammed into a stationary paddy laden tractor from rear near Salepali on the Dunguripali–Rampur road in Subarnapur district Tuesday morning, police said....

Bhadrak: Right-wing groups Tuesday held demonstrations in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur and Bhadrak districts over the attacks on minorities in Bangladesh. While the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) led the demonstration in Jagatsinghpur, local outfit Hindu Samaj held a rally in Bhadrak. VHP's Jagastsinghpur district president Prafulla Sahu...

Baripada: A modern bus terminal will be built at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, and it will have airport-like facilities, Odisha's Urban Development Minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra said Tuesday. Chairing a meeting on the project, Mahapatra said the new bus terminal will be a landmark public...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday asked officers to spend at least one hour every month in areas where social evils such as witch-hunting still persist. She was addressing a state-level workshop on the prevention of witch-hunting and the prohibition of child marriage,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Tuesday said the long-pending Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh will be resolved amicably. The committee, constituted to address the long-pending dispute, held its first meeting Tuesday, which was attended by the Chief Secretary, the Development Commissioner,...

Berhampur: A court in Odisha's Ganjam district Tuesday sentenced a youth to life imprisonment for killing a 55-year-old man two years ago, a government counsel said. Ganjam District and Sessions Judge Asanta Kumar Das pronounced the judgment on 29-year-old Biju Behera for killing Juria Bisoi,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday flagged off 150 new ambulances under the Emergency Medical Ambulance Service in the state. The state government has procured as many as 428 new ambulances at a cost of Rs 111 crore, and the chief minister launched...