Debabrata Mohanty

The incident happened soon after Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh left the state guest house to attend a ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ event in Jatni. Around 50-60 Youth Congress activists, divided into two groups, waved black flags and hurled eggs at his vehicle

"Congress party members are thieves, BJP party members are competing with them as thieves. We as a party are no less," said MP Tathagata Satpathy

MP wants cops to press same charges as in case of CM egg throwing case.

Baijayant Panda told reporters that BJD had a policy of resisting hooliganism and infighting. But in the last three years, things have changed.

During search at her paternal house, the vigilance officials found documents of a triple storied building in Bhubaneswar, 13 plots worth Rs 1.7 crore, 3 SUVs and a pick-up vehicle, several life insurance polices worth Rs 2.33 crore.

Over 400 BTech graduates, who had thought they secured jobs in 10 MNCs during campus placements in April-May, came to know that the offers were fake.

On Thursday, a case was lodged against unnamed persons on charges of rioting, unlawful assembly and stopping of train.

Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra demanded that action should be taken against all organisations conducting such fake placement drives.

The placement officer Raj Kumar Hota resigned, taking responsibility for the fiasco.

"We were shocked and felt humiliated when the HR executives told us that the the offer letters were fake," said one of the students who hoped to join her first job.

The municipality supplies water to only 7 of the 19 wards in the town.

As the Modi government celebrates three years of its rule at the Centre this week, a lot has happened on the political front in the state since May 2016

Under the Orissa Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1960, killing of cows is prohibited.

The CBI, which is probing the Rose Valley chit fund scam, arrested the four-time Lok Sabha member from Kolkata on January 3.

Police said Sonalika Mohanty tried to ‘forcefully enter Pradhan’s residence at Unit IV’ here and when she failed, she hurled flower pots and broke the window panes.

Move seen as action against BJD MP’s ‘proximity’ to BJP

This move was reportedly a part of BJD president and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik's party reorganisation exercise.

Pangi, a veteran leader from Koraput, was earlier suspended from the BJD on the charge of anti-party activities.

If Naveen wanted to send home a message of purging the party of corrupt ministers and bringing in fresh faces, he could have done so easily by picking quite a few from his band of 116 MLAs

The state government claims that the mobile network in Maoist-affected districts like Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur and Rayagada is unreliable and insufficient for the local population.

While 10 new ministers were sworn in, the ranks of two current ministers of state were elevated to that of Cabinet.

The 11 new ministers, many of whom had served as ministers in his previous Cabinet, are expected to take the oath of office on Sunday morning.

Many of the ministers who resigned were either in-charge of the districts where the party was almost wiped out or posted less-than impressive results.

The Maoists left behind posters warning against resumption of road construction in the area and asking villagers not to cooperate with the contractor.