Youth held for kidnapping and raping a minor girl

Kendrapara, Feb 18 (UNI) Sadar police today arrested a youth on the charges of kidnapping and raping a minor girl.

Writer and Naveen Patnaik's sister Gita Mehta declines Padma Shri award

New Delhi, Jan 26 (IBNS): Author Gita Mehta, who is also the sister of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, has turned down Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, which was announced on Friday, saying the timing of conferment of the honour might be "misconstrued", media reports said.

Kendrapara: Curfew withdrawn, Sec 144 still in force

Kendrapara, Jan 25 (IBNS): Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPc remain imposed in the communally-sensitive east Odisha district even though the curfew was lifted on Friday morning, local media said.

Rahul Gandhi visits Odisha, targets BJP, ruling BJD

Bhubaneswar, Jan 25 (IBNS): Visiting Odisha, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday tried to corner the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Biju Janata Dal of the state by saying that they follow the "same Gujarat model" in which there is a "deal" between the Chief Ministerial candidate and industrialists and governance is later handed over to the key bureaucrats.

Odisha: Declining Threat

On January 5, 2019, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead a guard of a road construction firm at Patiamba village under Phulbani Sadar Police Station limits in Kandhamal District, suspecting him of being a ‘Police informer’. Superintendent of Police (SP), Prateek Singh disclosed that a group of 10 to 12 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist ‘Kalahandi-Kandhamal-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) division’, raided the road construction camp where contractor Prasanna Kumar Swain was building the Sudrukumpa-Medikhol Road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) scheme. The rebels barged into the camp at around 2 am, dragged out watchman Rabindra Mallick and shot him dead. They then set ablaze five vehicles, including a road roller, three tractors, and a mini truck, before fleeing. Before leaving the area, the Maoists also put up two handwritten leaflets near the site. The leaflets mentioned that the attack was in retaliation to the killing of Badal, the ‘divisional committee member, (DCM)’ with a reward of INR 500,000 on his head and four others, in the District on May 13, 2018.

Government committed to all round development of Odisha & Eastern India: PM Narendra Modi

New Delhi, Jan 15 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Balangir in Odisha on Tuesday.

PM Narendra Modi to visit Balangir, Odisha tomorrow and launch several projects

New Delhi, Jan 14 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Balangir in Odisha on Jan 15.

Odisha: Class VIII girl gives birth in school hostel

Kandhamal, Jan 13 (IBNS): Months after she was allegedly raped, a Class VIII student gave birth in a tribal residential school hostel on Sunday, Hindustan Times reported.

Odisha Minister Pradeep Maharathy quits over his Pipili gang-rape case remark

Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 (IBNS): Just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged the state government to re-investigate the Pipili gang rape-and-murder case, a minister in Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's government resigned from the state cabinet over his comment in the case.

PM Modi to visit Jharkhand and Odisha tomorrow

New Delhi, Jan 4 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jharkhand and Odisha on Saturday.

Boat capsizes in Odisha; one dies

Paradip, Jan 2 (IBNS): A woman has died after a boat capsized at Mahanadi river in Odisha's Kendrapara on Wednesday, media reports said.

Two Odisha BJP leaders quit party, refuse to be 'treated like furniture'

Bhuvneshwar, Nov 30 (IBNS): In a major jolt to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha where the saffron party is aiming to gain big, two of its leaders- Dilip Ray and Bijoy Mahapatra- submitted their joint resignations on Friday, media reports said.

PM Narendra Modi condoles loss of lives due to bus accident in Cuttack

New Delhi, Nov 21 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday condoled the loss of lives due to the bus accident in Cuttack, Odisha.

Odisha: Bus falls from bridge in Cuttuck, 9 killed

Bhubaneswar, Nov 21 (IBNS): At least nine people were killed as a bus, in which they were traveling,  fell from a bridge in Cuttack city of the state on Tuesday.  

7 elephants electrocuted by power lines in Odisha village

Bhubaneswar, Oct 27 (IBNS): At least seven elephants died after they came in contact with a sagging power line in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, media reports said on Saturday.