
August 27, 2016 00:32 IST
Taking suo motu notice of reports in The Indian Express and several TV channels, the NHRC also expressed anguish over the way an old woman’s body was slung on a bamboo pole in Soro.
Sat, Aug 27, 2016
August 26, 2016 03:35 IST
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched a free hearse/ambulance van scheme called Mahaprayan, to be operational in 30 district hospitals and three medical colleges.
Fri, Aug 26, 2016
August 25, 2016 03:52 IST
Requested everyone at hospital but nobody listened, says tribal from Kalahandi.
Thu, Aug 25, 2016
August 23, 2016 02:47 IST
Santosh Patra, alias Tulu, was found in critical condition with three of his deceased siblings in the family home at Paralakhemundi town of Odisha’s Gajapati district on Sunday afternoon.
Tue, Aug 23, 2016
August 22, 2016 02:30 IST
Ananga Manjari Patra, manager of ex-king of Paralakimedi and former MP Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo, her sister Bijoylaxmi and brother Sanjay Patra, the king’s personal assistant, consumed poison, police said.
Mon, Aug 22, 2016
August 20, 2016 02:09 IST
The programme, named Biju Kanya Ratna scheme with the tagline of “Amari jhia, amari shakti” (Our girls, our strength) is likely to be launched by next month.
Sat, Aug 20, 2016
August 17, 2016 15:24 IST
With Odisha showing little interest in Mahanadi till now, it was easier for Chhattisgarh to own the upstream - the crucial segment - of the river.
Wed, Aug 17, 2016
August 16, 2016 02:55 IST
The PSO bent down to loosen, and subsequently tighten, the straps in the presence of thousands of people, as also TV cameras.
Tue, Aug 16, 2016
August 15, 2016 00:17 IST
In the country’s poorest district of Nabarangpur, a group of local youths have been touching lives in various ways, sometimes ferrying patients in an ambulance to hospitals in places as far as 500 km away.
Mon, Aug 15, 2016
August 15, 2016 00:10 IST
CTCRI director Dr Archana Mukherjee, who heads the six-member team, said the intervention by ICAR institutes was prompted by The Indian Express’s “District Zero” series on poverty and change in the district.
Mon, Aug 15, 2016
August 15, 2016 00:00 IST
Odisha government moves to plug the development gap, agriculture scientists want to adopt villages and a group of residents join hands t o help the needy in Nabarangpur, India’s poorest district.
Mon, Aug 15, 2016
August 14, 2016 02:57 IST
All the shops on either side of the 5-km stretch were closed, with 30 platoons of policemen and 60 officers deployed to ensure compliance.
Sun, Aug 14, 2016
August 13, 2016 01:03 IST
Odisha government has, however, said that an SIT probe into the incident is under way and action would be taken against security personnel if they are found guilty.
Sat, Aug 13, 2016
August 01, 2016 03:22 IST
Things came to a head when Das and his men allegedly uprooted several saplings of acacia and eucalyptus, which the tribals had planted a day earlier to turn the nine-acre government land into a reserve forest.
Mon, Aug 01, 2016
August 01, 2016 01:53 IST
Sethy has been on judicial remand in the Bhubaneswar jail since May 2013 after his arrest by Odisha CID police.
Mon, Aug 01, 2016
July 31, 2016 04:38 IST
On the evening of July 8, five people, including a two-year-old, were shot dead in Gumudumaha village in Kandhamal when they were returning home in an autorickshaw.
Sun, Jul 31, 2016
July 31, 2016 04:23 IST
This is the highest number of deaths due to lightning strikes in one day in the state.
Sun, Jul 31, 2016
July 31, 2016 01:32 IST
In a chromite-rich Odisha district, 17 malnourished tribal children living on just boiled rice and salt have succumbed to disease in the past two months. Odisha has now taken note of a village too far up a hill
Sun, Jul 31, 2016
July 29, 2016 04:11 IST
Radha’s surrender comes a week after the surrender of Maoist couple, Sukhdev and Rukini.
Fri, Jul 29, 2016
July 23, 2016 17:46 IST
Vigilance officials said Nayak was arrested by a team of theirs on Friday and was produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Sat, Jul 23, 2016
July 22, 2016 00:00 IST
In a notice pasted at his office on Wednesday, district collector V Jayakumar in a 3-point note made it clear that under no circumstances people and officials wearing T-shirt, jeans are allowed in his office.
Fri, Jul 22, 2016
July 21, 2016 05:18 IST
Dipak Sahu alias Dipu Tiger, a member of the “Pahadi Cheeta” gang, was allegedly killed on February 8, 2013 in a joint encounter by police and CRPF in the Bamdera jungle on the Odisha-Jharkhand border.
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
July 19, 2016 03:36 IST
Fearing arrest over death, male members of the tribal Bhatra community have deserted the village.
Tue, Jul 19, 2016
July 18, 2016 03:42 IST
Govt Had launched an awaresness campaign against the practice two months ago
Mon, Jul 18, 2016
July 18, 2016 03:33 IST
Four platoons of police deployed in the area, no arrest has been made yet
Mon, Jul 18, 2016





