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Bhubaneswar: Outgoing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday said that when he took charge of Odisha 70 per cent of the state's population was living below the poverty line, and during his 24-year tenure, he brought it down to 10 per cent. Meeting the newly-elected MLAs...

Bhubaneswar: BJP's Laxman Bag became a household name in Odisha overnight after he emerged as a 'giant killer' by defeating Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the Kantabanji assembly seat in Bolangir district. Bag, 48, won the Kantabanji seat by 16,344 votes in a massive upset...

Bhubaneswar: The population of elephants in Odisha has risen to 2,098, an increase of 122 in the last seven years, a senior forest officer said Wednesday. The count was 1,976 during the last census conducted in 2017. The Odisha Forest and Environment Department released the...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has suffered the first poll defeat since its formation after splitting away from the erstwhile Janata Dal in 1997. The party remained invincible for over two decades after coming to power riding on the popularity of Biju Patnaik in...

Bhubaneswar: The number of sunstroke-related deaths rose to 36 in Odisha this summer, with two more confirmed cases, an official statement said Wednesday. A total of 151 cases of sunstroke-related deaths were reported till Wednesday, of which 36 have been confirmed due to heat-related illness,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP President Manmohan Samal Wednesday clarified the false rumours on the BSKY health card. He described it as most unfortunate that some private hospitals in Odisha have started refusing to admit patients, claiming that the BSKY health card has been withdrawn. After the...

Bhubaneswar: Amid speculations over who would be the next chief minister of Odisha, state BJP president Manmohan Samal Wednesday said that the party's parliamentary board will take a decision on it in a day or two. Samal said the main agenda of the new government...

Bhubaneswar: BJP supremo Naveen Patnaik and BJP and Congress state presidents Manmohan Samal and Sarat Pattanayak respectively, had to suffer defeats in the Odisha Assembly elections. Although Patnaik won from his traditional Hinjili Assembly seat in Ganjam district by a slender margin of 4,636 votes,...

Bhubaneswar: The death toll in the Puri firecracker explosion in Odisha rose to 15 as two more persons succumbed to their burn injuries, according to a statement issued by the special relief commissioner Wednesday. Presently, 12 people injured in the explosion are undergoing treatment in...

Bhubaneswar: Following an unforeseen defeat of the Biju Janata Dal in the Assembly polls, party supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik submitted his resignation to Odisha Governor Raghubar Das at Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar. Naveen’s carcade left for Raj Bhavan from a deserted Naveen Niwas...