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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting, in Jajpur district, Odisha, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Opposition always tried to fill own coffers: Modi

Says Oppn live for their own families, he lives for countrymen

06 Mar 2024 12:53 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during the inauguration of various developmental projects, in Sambalpur, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (PTI)

Modi attacks Congress in Odisha, silent on BJD

PM said that making Droupadi Murmu the President of India reflected NDA government’s commitments to the empowerment of tribal communities

04 Feb 2024 1:22 AM

The voters were seen in a long queue in the morning to cast their votes even after efforts by Potangi block development officer (BDO) and tehsildar to convince the villagers not to participate in the electoral process.

Andhra Pradesh holds panchayat polls in disputed Kotia region

In presence of Andhra electoral officials, the voting began at 6.00 AM in five villages of Kotia clusters and continued till 3 PM

14 Feb 2021 4:46 AM

The Odisha government had on February 9 filed the petition in the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission to hold panchayat polls in the disputed Kotia cluster of villages that comes under the jurisdiction of Odisha’s Koraput district.

SC asks AP govt to file its response on ‘violation of status quo’ in Kotia villagers

The Kotia region which consists of 27 small tribal hamlets has been a bone of contention between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha since 1968

13 Feb 2021 12:04 AM

The state government has pointed out that Andhra Pradesh took the unilateral decision on holding panchayat polls even as the border dispute involving Kotia is sub-judice in the Supreme Court since December 1, 1968.

PIL in Odisha seeks to stop AP from holding panchayat polls in Kotia villages

The Kotia dispute is a long-pending border issue between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha

11 Feb 2021 4:18 AM

Youth in Odisha’s Ganjam district carrying body of his mother on shoulders as authorities did not provide hearse van.

Youth carries mother’s body on shoulders for 2km as hospital denies hearse van in Odisha

Hospital authorities deny charge, say relatives took away patient even she was not declared dead

06 Nov 2020 2:13 PM

Ravaged filling station near Raj Bhawan in Bhubaneswar.

Odisha petrol pump explosion: One succumbs to injury

Police to send mutilated human organs recovered from blast site for DNA test

09 Oct 2020 10:53 AM

Female members of Dhabaleswar Sahu's family. — DC photo

COVID kills all males of an Odisha family

With no earning in hand, kin stare at an uncertain future

05 Oct 2020 12:59 PM

Odisha’s ruling BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy,65, dies of Covid-19

Considered a close confidante of former chief minister Biju Patnaik, Maharathy began his career from student politics

04 Oct 2020 7:05 PM

He spent most of his time playing an online game called ‘Free Fire’ with the mobile (Representational image)

Class 8 student in Odisha commits suicide over online games curbs

The boy had spent Rs 91,000 from his father's bank account for playing the game

04 Oct 2020 11:56 AM

File photograph of Shaurya Missile displayed in Republic Day parade in Delhi. — DC photo

India test-fires new version of N-capable Shaurya missile

The 10-metre-long nuclear-capable Shaurya missile has a strike range of around 800 kilometres

04 Oct 2020 8:41 AM

MP Anubhav Mohanty with Wife Barsha Priyadarshini. (Photo-Twitter)

BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty slapped with domestic violence case by actress wife Barsha

Levelling another serious allegation, she said Anubhav has extramarital affairs with multiple women from the Ollywood

06 Sep 2020 1:02 PM

Rajanikant Satpathy’s flood-damaged poultry unit in Odisha’s Jajpur district.

How's this for cruelty: Floods wash away businesses set up by corona refugees

Hoping to make a new beginning, they invested the little money they brought back with them

01 Sep 2020 3:07 PM

Nalco employee G Ramesh Kumar (left) performing disco dance in a Covid hospital. — DC photo

Nalco employee turns COVID hospital into a discotheque, suspended

Dressed in a track pant and vest, the patient was seen shaking his legs to the tune of ‘I am a disco dancer’

19 Jul 2020 10:24 AM

A medic collects swab sample of a person for covid19 test at a sample collection centre in Bhubaneswar. PTI photo

Odisha covid tally touches 69 with 7 fresh cases

A total of 10,641 samples have been tested so far in the state

20 Apr 2020 12:15 PM

Twitter image posted by the Odisha chief minister's office of a quarantine facility set up near KIMS in Bhubaneswar. (Twitter)

Odisha names Covid-19 patient after he ignores calls to come for quarantine

State government puts three cities under lockdown after community transmission detected

03 Apr 2020 5:53 PM

Union home minister Amit Shah at a rally in Bhubaneswar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Amit Shah blames Left, BSP, SP, Mamata for anti-CAA protests

Mr Shah, while claiming credit for revocation of Article 370 that provided special status to J&K, said the latter had now become the crown of India.

29 Feb 2020 6:44 AM

Acting on a complaint lodged by the parents of the girl, Champua police had registered a case under relevant sections of IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act.

Odisha man gets death for raping, killing 3-yr-old girl

Adjudicating the case, the court pronounced the quantum of the punishment statements of as many as 28 witnesses were examined during the trial.

20 Dec 2019 5:37 AM

Star Wars creator scraps Chicago museum plan

For George Lucas, Chicago might as well be a galaxy far, far away. The Star Wars creator invented an entire sci-fi universe and multibillion-dollar empire.

26 Jun 2016 12:46 AM

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