...
...

puri district news

Odisha State Information Commission debars man from making RTI applications for one year

Odisha State Information Commission debars man from making RTI applications for one year
Published on Sept 13, 2025 07:57 pm IST

Woman sets herself afire in Odisha, 6th such case in a month

Woman sets herself afire in Odisha, 6th such case in a month
Updated on Oct 07, 2025 06:39 am IST

Odisha: 15-year-old girl set afire in Puri, airlifted to AIIMS Delhi, dies

The police have detained eight people, including the girl’s relatives, but are yet to reach any definite conclusion. (PTI)
Updated on Aug 03, 2025 05:00 am IST

Probe into setting girl ablaze in final stages: Puri SP

Probe into setting girl ablaze in final stages: Puri SP
Updated on Oct 07, 2025 04:03 am IST

Bahuda Rath Yatra set to begin from Gundicha Temple to Jagannath Temple in Puri

Bahuda Rath Yatra set to begin from Gundicha Temple to Jagannath Temple in Odisha's Puri
Published on Jun 28, 2023 11:45 am IST

Families of Punjab soldiers’ killed in Poonch terror attack inconsolable, seek justice

(Combo picture) Hawaldar Mandeep Singh, Lance Naik Debashish Baswal, Lance Naik Kulwant Singh, Sepoy Harkrishan Singh and Sepoy Sewak Singh, who lost their lives in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch Sector, on Thursday. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 22, 2023 02:25 am IST

Sambit Patra walks on hot coals, worships Goddess Dulan in Odisha | Watch

He walked around 10 metres on a burning coal bed on Tuesday.
Published on Apr 12, 2023 02:31 pm IST

Jagannath temple priest linked to murder case shot dead

Krushna Chandra Pratihari was a former member of the Jagannath temple managing committee.
Updated on Mar 17, 2022 02:10 am IST

Rath Yatra begins in Odisha’s Puri without devotees and amid curfew

Puri, India-June 23, 2020: Priests perform the pahandi rituals of Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, India, on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Photo by Arabinda Mahapatra / Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jun 23, 2020 02:36 pm IST

7 years after she ‘disappeared’, Odisha woman turns up with another partner

The woman’s former husband said he suffered mental and financial strain because of the evil designs of his wife and carelessness in the investigation.
Updated on Mar 02, 2020 10:48 pm IST

Four killed, 5 hurt in elephant attack in Odisha’s Puri

Puri’s divisional forest officer Sushant Ray said the elephant tossed 60-year-old Jugal Kishore Bhatt of Gopinathpur panchayat while he was working in his field on Sunday morning. (Image used for representation).
Updated on Feb 23, 2020 10:39 pm IST

3 killed in elephant attack in Odisha’s Puri

Five other villagers were also injured in the attack by the tusker, which spread panic in the area as it attacked houses as well.
Updated on Feb 23, 2020 01:54 pm IST

In Odisha, police official accused of sexual assault

Last month, a former constable of Puri was arrested for his involvement in the gangrape of a minor girl.
Updated on Jan 03, 2020 12:24 am IST

Puri to see world’s largest coastal clean-up exercise on September 21

On August 16, Mumbai’s 2.5 km Versova seafront was cleaned by volunteers in the largest-ever single day clean-up.
Published on Sept 18, 2019 09:25 pm IST

100 days after Cyclone Fani, coastal Odisha still to limp back to normal

In Puri, ground zero of the cyclone thousands of schoolchildren and their teachers are finding it difficult to deal with the post-cyclone scenario as their school buildings have been completely razed or devastated beyond repair.
Updated on Aug 11, 2019 05:47 pm IST

Odisha’s temple town of Puri starts beach clean-up campaign

Plastic cups and bottles, aluminium cans, plastic plates carelessly tossed around by visitors turned the Puri shoreline into a heap of garbage even as signages on the beach discourage littering.
Updated on Jul 16, 2019 10:00 am IST

Brothers among three hacked to death in Odisha

Three persons, including two brothers, were hacked to death by unidentified assailants in public view near a police check post in Odisha’s Puri district on Sunday, police officials familiar with the matter said.
Updated on Jul 15, 2019 01:16 am IST

Odisha to roll out massive loan plan for Cylone Fani victims

Over 30,000 fishermen lost their livelihood as close to 6,400 traditional marine fishing boats and 7,240 fishing nets were damaged in the cyclone.
Updated on Jun 11, 2019 03:53 pm IST

In Puri district, miscreants hurl bombs at BJP candidate’s house

Pattanayak, a businessman, unsuccessfully contested from Pipili Assembly constituency in the 2019 polls, losing to BJD’s Pradeep Maharathy by a margin of 15,787 votes. (Image used for representational purpose).
Updated on May 25, 2019 09:30 pm IST

Hit by Fani, coconut farmers stare at an uncertain future

In Puri district, 11.59 lakh coconut trees were damaged. As many as 1.96 lakh were uprooted in Khurdha district. In Jajpur district, 14,910 coconut trees fell.
Updated on May 21, 2019 07:57 am IST

Cyclone Fani: Odisha govt distributes free sanitary napkins in Puri

A woman cooks inside her house destroyed by the cyclone ‘Fani’ in the Pratap Purushottampur village area of Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on May 10, 2019.
Updated on May 19, 2019 08:06 am IST

Cyclone Fani led to massive loss of poultry in Odisha: Official

Other poultry farmers in the region are worried that the cyclone may have dealt a deadlier blow than expected, as many of them had borrowed from banks to take up poultry farming.
Updated on May 17, 2019 10:56 pm IST

Odisha suffers damages of over 11K crore due to Fani

The Odisha government on Wednesday said it suffered damages to its properties worth 11,942 crore due to Cyclone Fani that hit the state on May 3.
Updated on May 16, 2019 12:00 am IST

6,498 schools damaged in cyclone Fani in Odisha

A total of 6,498 schools have been damaged in cyclone Fani that ravaged 14 districts in Odisha
Published on May 13, 2019 08:47 pm IST

Odisha seeks 5 lakh PMAY houses for cyclone affected

The Odisha government Monday urged the Centre to sanction at least five lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)
Published on May 13, 2019 07:09 pm IST

In ravaged Odisha, age-old VHF helps police stay in touch

Cyclone Fani knocked down almost all the VHF antennae at all police stations in Puri except the one in Town police station that miraculously survived the 250 kmph winds.
Updated on May 12, 2019 11:16 pm IST

Power supply, mobile connectivity eludes Odisha two days after Cyclone Fani

Odisha power secretary Hemant Sharma said more than 30 lakh electricity consumers in the state have been affected by the cyclone and efforts are on to restore supply to critical sectors such as the airport, hospitals and railway stations.
Updated on May 06, 2019 07:01 am IST

Odisha braces for cyclone Fani, cancels officials’ leaves ahead of landfall

A woman evacuates the coast with her children in Ganjam district, Odisha following a cyclone alert.
Updated on May 06, 2020 09:02 pm IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJD candidate arrested for leading attack on EC team in Odisha

The BJD’s candidate for the Pipili assembly constituency in Odisha’s Puri district, Pradeep Maharathy, was arrested on Monday.
Updated on Apr 22, 2019 04:29 pm IST