State

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Friday put on hold the proposed all-party meeting on the Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh, and asserted that it was committed to safeguard the river which is a "heritage" for the people. This was stated by Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo,...

Bhubaneswar/Dhenkanal: Congress leader and party's General Secretary (Organisation), KC Venugopal, Friday condemned the alleged attack on a pastor and members of the Christian community in the Parjang area of Odisha's Dhenkanal district January 4, and demanded the immediate arrest of all those involved. In a...

Bhubaneswar: Several programmes were held across Odisha Friday to mark the birth anniversaries of freedom fighters Subhas Chandra Bose and Veer Surendra Sai. Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, and Leader of the Opposition Naveen Patnaik were among the leaders who paid...

Balasore: Three wagons of a goods train derailed in Odisha's Balasore district Friday, officials said. There was no report of any injury in the goods train derailment at Rupsa station in the Bhadrak-Kharagpur section of South Eastern Railway (SER), they said. The incident occurred at...

Chaibasa(J’khand)/Rourkela: Sixteen Maoists, including top leader Anal, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Saranda forest along the Odisha-Jharkhand border Thursday. Patiram Manjhi alias Anal Da, carrying a Rs 2.35 crore bounty, and five women were among those killed. The bounty included Rs...

Berhampur: Two teenagers drowned while taking a bath in Bahuda River in Ganjam district, police said Thursday. The incident took place at Sundarada village in K Nuagaon police station area Thursday afternoon. The victims were identified as Saswat Patra (13), a Class VII student, and...

Jajpur: The torso and head of a 60-year-old man were found lying on a village road in Jajpur district Thursday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Dasaratha Behera, a resident of Matiagada village under the jurisdiction of Sukinda police station. According to reports,...

Daringbadi: A Class IX student of the Government Higher Secondary School, Daringbadi in Kandhamal district has been expelled from the Gajapati Kapilendra Dev hostel for the past two days. The move by the school authorities has drawn widespread attention. According to headmaster Umashankar Samantray, the...

Dhenkanal: Four people were detained for their alleged involvement in the assault of a man over charges of religious conversions in Dhenkanal district, police said Thursday. The detention was made on the basis of a complaint by the man's wife that he was assaulted and...

Bargarh: In a bizarre and a striking incident of Aadhaar goof-up, a farmer from Bijepur area in this district was deprived of selling his harvested paddy as his Aadhaar record erroneously showed him as ‘dead’. According to reports, the incident involves Tankadhar Giri of Pipilipali...