Holi festival celebrated at various places in Berhampur   As a heatwave grips Odisha, the otherwise busy road connecting Link Road to Badambadi appears deserted   Musical performance at Bhubaneswar’s Rabindra Mandap  

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Odisha for three days from March 21 and will launch several developmental projects in the state during the tour, a BJP leader said in Bhubaneswar Sunday. Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal said Shah will arrive at Jharsuguda airport in the evening March 21 and is scheduled to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police Sunday arrested six persons, including a juvenile, for their alleged involvement in two separate killing cases during Holi celebrations in Bhubaneswar on the previous day. The police have arrested the accused persons in the killing cases that took place in Saheed Nagar and Mancheswar police station areas. While briefing reporters, Bhubaneswar DCP Jagmohan Meena...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the discourse around the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat was an attempt to create a false narrative and his political opponents in power at the Centre wanted him to be punished but the courts cleared his name. In a podcast with Lex Fridman, Modi said the perception that the...

Bhubaneswar: Large parts of Odisha, especially the western region, experienced heatwave conditions Sunday, with Boudh town recording the highest temperature of 43.6 degree Celsius, the IMD said. At least seven places in Odisha, including Boudh, recorded a maximum temperature of over 40 degree Celsius. As per a weather bulletin issued by the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre, Jharsuguda town...

Berhampur: Odisha police Sunday arrested a 47-year-old rice trader from Andhra Pradesh for allegedly cheating a rice mill owner of Rs 77 lakh in Ganjam district about five years ago, an officer said. The accused, a resident of Tanuku in Andhra Pradesh's West Godavari district, was arrested near Girisola in the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh border area,...

Imagine going to bed October 4, 1582, only to wake up the next morning and find out it was October 15. No, this was not a time-travel experiment gone wrong; it was a real historical event. Ten entire days were erased from existence, leaving people confused, outraged, and convinced that something supernatural was at play. Let's decode...

Puri: Actress Bhagyashree recently offered prayers at the famous Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha. The 'Maine Pyaar Kiya' actress took to her Instagram and treated the netizens with some glimpses of her religious visit. The photos and clips posted by her show her standing outside the temple. She was wearing an orange salwar kameez with golden embellish....

Balasore: A 21-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a relative in Odisha's Balasore district when her husband was drunk, police said Sunday. The incident happened in a village under Jaleswar police limit Saturday evening. According to the police, the woman who had been married for around six months, her husband and his relative had gone to the...

Beijing: China has delivered a second new submarine, equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, to Pakistan as part of its efforts to beef up the navy of its all-weather ally to back its growing presence in the Arabian Sea and India's backyard - the Indian Ocean. The Hangor-class submarine, which is part of the eight such submarines...