Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik along with his select cabinet colleagues will campaign for BJD candidate Barsha Singh Bariha in the December 5 bypoll to Padampur assembly constituency in Bargarh district. The BJP, the main opposition party in the state, named union ministers Dharmendra...
Cuttack: The Odisha government has decided to set up truck terminals along the highways to reduce accidents caused by the parking of heavy vehicles on the roads, an official said. Out of 5,081 accident fatalities in 2021, nearly 25 per cent were due to collision...
Bhubaneswar: The nomination papers of two Independent candidates for December 5 Padampur by-election in Odisha were cancelled during the scrutiny while 11 others including BJD, BJP and Congress candidates were found valid, official sources said. The nominations of Independent candidates Jayanta Thapa and Debabrata Sunani...
Bhubaneswar: The economic offence wing (EOW) of Odisha police has frozen an amount of Rs 1.45 crore of one of the accused in illegal digital loan app scam. The money is lying in the accounts of accused Nitin Malik. Good Start Business Pvt. Ltd. and...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has declared Odia movie Daman as tax free keeping in view its social impact. The Chief Minister's Office in a release Friday said that the Daman movie is receiving a massive response from people. The film is based on the Odisha...
In the small town of Orchha – located in Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region – Varsha’s compering is heard loud and clear when she spreads the message of protecting the mother earth. The young broadcasting climate activist has been educating hundreds of villages about the repercussions...
Bhubaneswar: With the by-poll in Odisha's agrarian Padampur assembly constituency drawing near and the BJD and BJP dubbing each other as “anti-farmer”, the saffron brigade Friday launched an indefinite 'satyagraha' near the state Assembly highlighting farmers' issues. Odisha BJP general secretary Prithviraj Harichandan said the...
Bhubaneswar: Unidentified miscreants stole a voltage stabilizer, electric wire and some electronic materials from the Congress Bhavan, the state headquarters of the Congress party here, police said Friday. Congress party office secretary Baidyanath Swan lodged a complaint at the Capital police station regarding the theft,...
Bhubaneswar: It was in 2021, when Neha found a place amongst the 17 Promising Young Environmental Activists selected for UN India’s ‘We The Change' campaign which aims at showcasing climate solutions pioneered by young Indians. This marked the celebration of India’s climate leadership. All the...
Bhubaneswar: It seems Odia film industry is on track to restore its former glory with booming content like Adieu Godard and Daman. With this, young filmmakers have now shown guts to set their foot in the declining industry with fresh and original content. Odia movie...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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