Odisha heatwave alert: IMD warns of rising temperatures in multiple districtsAccording to IMD Bhubaneswar Director Manorama Mohanty, districts like Sambalpur, Sonepur, Balangir, and Jharsuguda will experience extreme...
29 Mar, 2025, 08.38 PM IST
IMD forecasts heavy rainfall in Odisha till July 19 due to low pressure over Bay of BengalOdisha is expected to experience prolonged rainfall in the next four days due to a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal. Heavy to very ...
15 Jul, 2024, 06.52 PM IST
Royal couple eyes to retain and retake their seats in Lok Sabha, Assembly polls in OdishaKanak Vardhan Singh Deo, who belongs to the erstwhile royal family of Patna (in Odisha's Balangir), is contesting the assembly election fro...
19 May, 2024, 02.40 PM IST
RBI imposes Rs 1.05 cr penalty on Kotak Mahindra BankThe charge can be attributed to non- compliance with the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and directions on ‘Customer Protection – Limiting Lia...
04 Jul, 2022, 07.05 PM IST
EcoR officers plan gifts for babies born on board Shramik Special trains in their zoneThe first such sponsorship came from the general manager of the zone, Vidya Bhushan himself who sent Rs 5,000 to the mother of a child born...
05 Jun, 2020, 03.23 PM IST
PM Modi unveils slew of projects worth over Rs 1,550 cr in OdishaA Multi-Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) at Jharsuguda, built at a cost of Rs 100 crore, was dedicated to the nation by the prime minister.
15 Jan, 2019, 11.56 AM IST
Naveen Patnaik reviews Khurda-Balangir Railway projectPatnaik also asked Railway officials to take up 90 km project work as the state government has already handed over the required land to the...
17 Nov, 2015, 04.28 PM IST
- Farmer suicide: Odisha ministers face protest in districts
In the backdrop of farmers committing suicide across the state, the ministers in the Odisha government are facing protest-demonstrations du...
04 Nov, 2015, 06.41 PM IST
Odisha's identifies 4 more districts as drought-hit, total 16A day after Naveen Patnaik announced Rs 1,000 crore package for farmers hit by drought, Odisha government identified four more districts fa...
15 Oct, 2015, 04.39 PM IST
Odisha government seeks report on alleged suicide of 2 farmersA total of 12 farmers have so far committed sucide allegedly due to crop loss this year in Odisha, officials said. The Odisha government ha...
10 Oct, 2015, 04.35 PM IST
Rail track construction work from Balangir to begin in DecemberIndian Railways had on July 20 signed an agreement with the Odisha government for completion of the Khurda-Balangir rail route.
16 Sep, 2015, 07.32 PM IST
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurates projects in OdishaPrabhu opened a new railway line between Khurda Road and Begunia, a 32-kilometre stretch of the 289-km Khurda-Balangir track at Begunia in ...
16 Jul, 2015, 08.46 PM IST
Jawan injured in Maoist landmine blastA jawan of Odisha's elite Special Operaton Group (SOG) was seriously injured in a landmine explosion triggered by Maoists.
13 Feb, 2015, 04.56 PM IST
- Senior IAS officer sent to jail in recruitment scam in Odisha
Senior IAS officer and former district magistrate-cum-collector Debraj Mishra was today remanded to 14 days' judicial custody by a local co...
08 Nov, 2014, 10.20 PM IST
- Harishankar park a death trap for deer
Come summer and Harishankar deer park in the district turns into a hell hole for its inhabitants. Nine deer have died this season in the pa...
14 May, 2012, 04.07 AM IST
- Angry workers burn alive steel factory executive in Orissa
A mob of disgruntled labourers set ablaze a 55-year-old steel factory deputy general manager at Titilagarh in Orissa's Balangir on Thursday.
04 Mar, 2011, 04.28 AM IST
- No of elephants rise in Orissa by 24 in last three years, experts dispute official figure
Even as the forest department claimed increase in the number of elephants by 24 in the last three years in Orissa.
18 Jun, 2010, 10.06 PM IST