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Bhubaneswar: Unfazed by the 'outsider' barb of his opponents, Naveen Patnaik's closest associate Kartik Pandian has said he is a 'natural successor' to all the great values of the Odisha Chief Minister and he will do everything under the sun to help his ‘guru’ serve...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday announced the ninth list of candidates consisting of three remaining candidates for the 2024 Assembly elections in the state. With this list, the party has fielded candidates for all 147 Assembly constituencies and...

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Wednesday forecast heatwave conditions in several states across the country during the first week of May. Heatwave to severe heatwave conditions are likely to continue over south Peninsular India till May 3 and east India till May 2,...

Bhubaneswar: A flight from Bhubaneswar to New Delhi returned minutes after take-off and made an emergency landing after the aircraft was caught in a hailstorm and suffered damage Wednesday, an official said. The 169 passengers and crew on board are safe. The New Delhi-bound Vistara...

Bhubaneswar: The Fast Track Special Court in Bhubaneswar Tuesday awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a 30-year-old man after holding him guilty of raping a minor girl in 2018. The court also slapped a penalty of Rs10,000 on the convict, identified as Ramjan...

Bhubaneswar: Severe heatwave conditions sizzled Odisha Tuesday with the mercury rising to 45.4 degrees Celsius in the capital Bhubaneswar, officials said. Baripada town in Mayurbhanj district was the hottest place in the state, recording a temperature of 46.4 degrees Celsius, which was an all-time high...

Bhubaneswar: Security personnel at Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar seized Rs 75 lakh cash from two persons during scanning of luggage bags, official sources said Tuesday. The cash was seized in the last two days from trolley bags of two passengers, one was coming...

Bhubaneswar: Thirty-seven candidates are in the fray for the elections to four Lok Sabha seats in Odisha for which voting will be held May 13, EC officials informed. The nomination process for Nabarangpur, Berhampur, Koraput and Kalahandi Lok Sabha segments started April 18 and the...

Bhubaneswar: An unidentified armed miscreant unleashed terror for over 30 minutes at the office of the Deputy Director of Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) in Bhubaneswar Monday. Though no one was injured in the incident, the miscreant fled after causing extensive damage to furniture and computers...

Puri: Many senior leaders of various political parties in Odisha Monday filed their nomination papers for the upcoming simultaneous Lok Sabha polls and Assembly elections. Among the heavyweights from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), party spokesperson and its candidate for Puri Lok Sabha constituency, Sambit...