Another train accident leaves one person injured early this morning when Koraput-Howrah Samaleswari Express collided with a goods train in Odisha's Jharsuguda district, police said.
India successfully test-fired Agni-IV, a strategic nuclear-capable missile with a 3,000-km range, from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast on Tuesday. HT reports.
Drought, absence of govt-sponsored programmes are causing an exodus from villages in Orissa to Andhra Pradesh. Priya Ranjan Sahu reports.
An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale, was felt on Saturday in Odisha, a senior official of the Bhubaneswar meteorological centre said.
Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik today slammed the central government for the latest petrol price hike, saying the move will further add to the plight of the poor.
At least three women were killed and seven others injured when an auto-rickshaw collided with a bus at Nutan Berhampur Chowk, 60 km from Berhampur in Ganjam district today, police said.
At least 10 persons, including five women, were killed and 10 other injured after a truck hit a passenger bus on Thursday in Sambalpur district of Orissa.
The Orissa government today asked central public sector NTPC to acquire land after receiving the consent of owners for its two proposed ultra mega power projects.
Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Monday said the “formal promotion” of home minister P Chidambaram to parity status with finance minister Pranab Mukerjee was a desperate attempt to thwart probe against him in the 2G spectrum scam after the indictment of DMK ministers.
BJP leader LK Advani's 'Jan Chetna Yatra' in Orissa is likely to be curtailed by a day as the tour to state capital Bhubaneswar may be cancelled.
BJP leader LK Advani's Jan Chetna Yatra against corruption entered Orissa from Chhatisgarh on Sunday. Addressing his first public meeting at Bargarh, Advani said black money deposited in foreign countries should be brought back to the country and spent only in rural areas.
With the seizure of a huge quantity of explosives from a forested area, police in Orissa today claimed to have averted a blast bid by Maoists in the communally sensitive Kandhamal district.
A high alert has been sounded in all 14 police station areas in Orissa's Kandhamal district following revelations by a hardcore Maoist that an attack by the ultras was being planned.
The debate over the cause of recent floods in Orissa has widened with governor MC Bhandare insisting on a probe despite objections by the state authorities, while an expert Saturday sought a government white paper on the issue.
After 19 days of the murder of BJD MLA Jagabandhu Majhi in Orissa, the CPI (Maoist) claimed on Thursday through a local newspaper that they killed Majhi because he had tarnished the image of the Maoists by collecting money and getting many people killed in their names.