The deaths caused by a spurious drink on Thursday climbed to 32 in Odisha, while state excise minister Ananga Udaya Singh Deo submitted his resignation to chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
Rajendra Mandal has single-handedly brought health care and relief to Odisha’s remote tribal district of Rayagada. Priya Ranjan Sahu reports.
Three days after the murder of the retired professor couple, whose bodies were found from their house at Ramakrushana Nagar, the police have come to know that they were shot from close range.
A Maoist couple was gunned down by police in Odisha's Koraput district, an official said today.
The Odisha government today denied existence of "human safari" in the state but ordered an enquiry to "ascertain facts" in response to some media reports which said some tour operators organised tours of foreigners promising a close look at the Bonda tribals, one of world's most primitive tribes.
Notching up a major success against red rebels, Odisha police today arrested top ultra leader and CPI (Maoist) Odisha state committee member Girish from Bargarh district, about 370 km west of Bhubaneswar.
The police on Friday stepped up security arrangement at the Odisha chief secretary BK Patnaik’s office after it received a packet containing a detonator – the second such incident in a week. Exactly a week ago, a similar packet had landed in the office of the Odisha State Election Commission.
Facing stiff opposition from the opposition parties and civil society groups over the alleged gangrape of a dalit girl, Odisha agriculture minister Pradip Maharathi today resigned from state cabinet.
In a shocking incident, as many as 24 television sets in the Railway station in Bhubaneswar showed an obscene film for about 10 minutes for which one person was arrested on Saturday, police said.
A twin user trial of India's nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile by the Army was deferred on Wednesday due to a technical problem at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore.
The biggest congregation of Odissi dancers – 555 to be precise – from across India and abroad matched steps to perform the complete five-phase repertoire of classical Odissi for 30 minutes, a feat which they hope would ensure a place in Guinness Book of World Records.
A day after nabbing of a key accused in the clash at proposed Posco steel plant site near Paradip, CPI leader and former MLA Narayan Reddy was arrested in connection with the violence that claimed one life.
At least three policemen were killed and three others seriously injured today in a land mine blast triggered by suspected Maoists in Odisha's Kandhamal district.
The Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express was cancelled today due to heavy fog, an official said.
South Korean steel major Posco’s proposed project in Odisha, stuck for more than six years due to sustained protests, saw another outbreak of violence on Wednesday in which one person died and 15 were injured.