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Nuapada Bypoll: A Litmus Test for Odishas Political Powerhouses

Nuapada Bypoll: A Litmus Test for Odisha's Political Powerhouses

Bhubaneswar: The upcoming by-election in Nuapada has turned into a political crucible that could reshape the...

21 Oct 2025 6:04 PM IST

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

6 March 2024 12:53 AM IST

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...

4 Feb 2024 1:22 AM IST

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...

14 Feb 2021 4:46 AM IST

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 Odishas Koraput district.

SC asks AP govt to file its response on violation of status quo' in...

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

13 Feb 2021 12:04 AM IST

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...

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

11 Feb 2021 4:18 AM IST

Youth in Odishas 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...

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

6 Nov 2020 2:13 PM IST

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

9 Oct 2020 10:53 AM IST

Female members of Dhabaleswar Sahus family. DC photo

COVID kills all males of an Odisha family

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

5 Oct 2020 12:59 PM IST

Pradeep Maharathy

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

4 Oct 2020 7:05 PM IST

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

4 Oct 2020 11:56 AM IST

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

4 Oct 2020 8:41 AM IST