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Bhubaneswar: The charge sheet in the murder of minister Naba Kishore Das will be filed within prescribed time frame, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told the Odisha Assembly Tuesday. Replying to the discussion on demand of grants for the Home and General Administration Departments, he said:...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday said nothing has been discussed as yet on forming an opposition front ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Patnaik's statement came ahead of his scheduled “courtesy meeting” with Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Thursday. Asked whether any...

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled one-day visit to Odisha March 26 has been postponed, a leader of the BJP's state unit said Tuesday. The new itinerary will be announced later, Odisha BJP general secretary Golak Mohapatra said. The change in programme is likely...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly Tuesday witnessed heated debate with the opposition BJP raising the issue of a BJD MLA's remark during a bureaucrat's recent visit to Nabarangpur and the ruling BJD coming down heavily on the Centre's decision to discontinue the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday held that the abolition of the Odisha Administrative Tribunal was constitutionally valid. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud rejected the challenge to the decision by the tribunal bar association. "We hold that abolition of Orissa Administrative Tribunal...

Bhubaneswar: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, Mamata Banerjee arrived Tuesday here. Even though West Bengal officials have termed the trip as ‘personal’, Mamata Banerjee will meet her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik on March 23. After the meeting she will leave for...

Bhubaneswar:  The regional centre of IMD in Bhubaneswar Tuesday issued Orange Warning for as many as 12 districts of Odisha. Till 8.30 AM of March 22, the weather agency predicts that thunderstorms with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph along with hailstorms...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police have recovered a huge quantity of explosives and other incriminating materials were hidden in a dump during a combing operation in Andhra Pradesh. A source in DGP office said police have seized 50 to 60 kg of Codex wire, six tiffin boxes,...

Bhubaneswar: As many as eight civilians and three security personnel were killed during 12 exchanges of fire incidents between security personnel and Maoist during 2022. This was mentioned in the white paper published by the state home department of Odisha, which was laid before the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered a 14.65 per cent rise in cognisable offences in 2022 as compared to 2021, according to a white paper presented in the assembly. No political violence or communal incidents were reported in Odisha in 2022, it stated, adding the state also recorded...