Sonepur: Police seized counterfeit currency notes worth Rs 8.47 lakh and arrested two persons following a late-night operation near the State Bank of India’s main branch in Sonepur town, officials said Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off about the racket, a police team led by Town Police Station IIC Yadav Bag intensified patrolling in the area Tuesday…
A Plus III college student in Cuttack was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped in a hotel in Puri. Cantonment Police arrested the mastermind behind the crime. The main accused has been identified as Satyabrata Parida, a resident of Kalyanipur area under Binjharpur police station in Jajpur district. He was arrested by the police on Wednesday near Jajpur…
In a strongly worded letter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi today, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo and Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik has called for an urgent special session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly within the next 48 hours to debate the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise and pass a resolution safeguarding the state’s political…
Bhubaneswar: As predicted by the regional centre of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), scorching heatwave prevailed in Odisha with Titilagarh recording today’s highest temperature of 42.0°C. Apart from Titilagarh many cities of the state witnessed maximum temperatures of 40°C or above. This included Hirakud (41.0°C), Sambalpur (41.0°C), and Balangir (41.0°C), Jharsuguda (41.6°C), Talcher (40.8°C), Bhawanipatna (40.8°C),…
Rourkela: Five jawans of CoBRA battalion have been injured after a fierce gunfight broke out between security forces and Maoists in the Saranda forests of West Singhbhum near Odisha-Jharkhand border on Wednesday. The five injured security personnel who sustained injures during the encounter, have been airlifted to Ranchi for better medical facility. They are said to…
Bhubaneswar: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the Class 10 examination results on April 15. As many as 25, 08,319 students had registered for the examination. Odisha student Tina Rath has scored 500 out of 500 marks, securing a perfect 100% and topping both the country and the state.In Odisha, 65,204 students from…
Bhubaneswar: The door-to-door phase of the first-ever Digital Census 2026 (House Listing and Housing Census) commenced across all 30 districts of Odisha today.According to reports, more than 90,200 enumerators will visit households throughout the state to collect data. The Directorate of Census Operations has appointed 15,140 supervisors to oversee the massive exercise.Each enumerator has been…
Kendrapada: The Odisha government Wednesday effected a two-month ban on fishing off the state’s 484-km coast as part of its annual practice to allow unhindered breeding of fishes.The ban on marine fishing until June 14 is likely to adversely affect the livelihoods of the state’s countless fisherfolk, even though the government argues the move would benefit…
Bhubaneswar, April 15: Odisha’s Minister for Higher Education, Sports & Youth, Suryabanshi Suraj, met with Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on the occasion of the Odia New Year.Governor Kambhampati highlighted the significance of the day, saying, ” Maha Vishuba Sankranti marks the Odia New Year, along with the celebrations of Pana Sankranti, Hanuman Jayanti, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth…
One person was killed and 14 others, including children, were seriously injured after a Bhubaneswar-bound minibus crashed into a tree on National Highway-16 near Matiapada under Simulia police limits in Odisha’s Balasore district. Balasore: One person was killed and 14 others, including children, were seriously injured after a Bhubaneswar-bound minibus crashed into a tree on…
