Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a severe heatwave alert for Odisha for the next five days. The IMD has issued Orange Warning for many districts of the state till April 28, with the maximum day temperature likely to rise by 4 to 6 degrees Celsius. Day-wise forecast for Odisha: April 25 ORANGE [...]

Bhubaneswar: A senior clerk at Mahakalapada Tahasil in Kendrapara district has been sentenced to two years jail following his conviction in a bribery case. The clerk has been identified as Madhaba Chandra Acharya. Acharya, who was charge sheeted by Odisha Vigilance in Spl. Judge, Vigilance, Cuttack for taking bribe, was convicted to 2 years jail [...]

Berhampur: Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal Supremo Naveen Patnaik today said that Odisha will be the number 1 state in the country by 2036. Speaking at a public meeting at Sheragada, Naveen said the decade from 2024 to 2034 will be the Decade of Odisha. This decade will be the golden period for the [...]

Berhampur: Biju Janata Dal President and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik began his election campaign for the ensuing General and Assembly elections from his Assembly Constituency Hinjili today. He received a rousing welcome at Samarajhola in Hinjili where a sea of people gathered there to have a glimpse of the Chief Minister and to shower their [...]

Berhampur: Biju Janata Dal Supremo Naveen Patnaik will hit the campaign trail today. Chief Minister and BJD Party President Naveen Patnaik will begin his campaign for the ensuing assembly and General Elections from today. Naveen will visit Hinjili and Seragada of his Assembly constituency today for election campaigning. With his joining the campaign trail, the [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police Crime Branch’s Special Task Force has arrested two persons, including an interstate drug peddler, and seized ‘brown sugar’, valued at over Rs 1 crore, during a raid in Angul district, police said on Tuesday. The accused were identified as Rakibul Sekh, 43, of West Bengal’s Murshidabad, and Bijay Birbarma, 26, of [...]

Bhubaneswar: Even though Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal President Naveen Patnaik is yet to start the election campaigning, his Jodi Sankha video has already created an emotional chord among the people of Odisha. The Jodi Sankha video featuring the Chief Minister wearing a traditional Sambalpuri Lungi has become so popular that it broke all [...]

Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Tuesday announced its list of 40 star campaigners for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha. The list includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda , Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and several senior leaders of the BJP.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has asked the Centre for adequate supply of anti-tuberculosis drugs from the Central TB Division. In a letter to the Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, State Health Minister Niranjan Pujari said that since February 2023 there has been inadequate supply of Anti-TB drugs from the Central TB Division, Government of India, which [...]

Bhubaneswar: Choon Leong Chong, Deputy Director of ITE Education Services (ITEES), Singapore has attended the review meeting on the status of the upcoming Spatial AI Centre at the World Skill Centre (WSC), a premier skill development facility set up by the Odisha Government under the Skilled-in Odisha initiative. The Spatial AI Centre will help transform [...]