Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President and Leader of Opposition in the Odisha Assembly, Naveen Patnaik, was discharged from a hospital here on Wednesday evening after recovering from dehydration. Following his discharge, the BJD supremo expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the people of Odisha for their wishes and prayers during his treatment. “Thank you [...]

Bhubaneswar: Dhirendra Mohanty, Secretary of Mahu Co-operative Society, Aul, Kendrapara, was apprehended by Odisha Vigilance today while accepting a bribe of Rs. 10,000 from a loanee farmer. Mohanty demanded the bribe to release a loan passbook and cheque book for an agricultural loan of Rs. 75,000, sanctioned on August 12, 2025, to the complainant and [...]

Berhampur: Berhampur Town Police rescued a 17-year-old girl from Surat, Gujarat, and arrested the accused, Karmraj Dubey alias Subalak, a 26-year-old auto-rickshaw driver. The minor, daughter of an informant from Bada Bazar, Berhampur, went missing on November 29, 2024, after leaving for a coaching center in Berhampur. Distressed by a family misunderstanding, she fled to [...]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke with BJD President and Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly Naveen Patnaik, who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bhubaneswar, and wished him a speedy recovery. The Prime Minister enquired about Naveen Patnaik’s health, advised him to rest, and extended an invitation to visit Delhi soon. Naveen [...]

New Delhi: Work on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) Project (508 km) is in full swing with foundation work already completed across 406 km, and track laying starting on 127 km of viaduct, Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Parliament on Wednesday. The other major items of the project that have been completed [...]

New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has strongly opposed the construction of the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh, warning that it could prove disastrous for Odisha, particularly the tribal-dominated regions of Malkangiri district. A delegation of BJD comprising MPs, MLAs, former ministers, and tribal leaders, have submitted a memorandum to the Chairman of the [...]

Bhubaneswar: A delegation of opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by its senior Vice President and authorised representative of the party, Debi Prasad Mishra, on Tuesday met Chief Election Commissioner(CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi. The delegation has reportedly apprised the Election Commission of India (ECI) of the party’s objections concerning alleged voting [...]

Bhubaneswar: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has chalked out a three-phase strategy to boost production, efficiency, and value addition with an estimated investment of around Rs 30,000 crore. Addressing the media, NALCO Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) Bijendra Pratap Singh on Tuesday said the company is committed to strengthening its operational base and expanding capacities to meet [...]

Bhubaneswar: A Special Vigilance Court in Balasore sentenced Kumuda Chandra Pradhan, a former Assistant Engineer (Estimator) of the Lift Irrigation Division, to three years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) on Tuesday for accepting a bribe. Pradhan was found guilty of demanding and accepting Rs 10,000 from a contractor to process agreement papers for a work order. [...]

New York: Presidents Donald Trump of the US and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said they had a good bilateral meeting as they moved to a meeting with European leaders on Monday at the White House. And, European leaders, who spoke before their meeting, expressed appreciation for one important step Trump has taken by agreeing to [...]