Briefs

Bhubaneswar: BJD chief and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday flagged off election campaign vans for the ensuing Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. Around 350 LED vans will tour villages...

Nabarangpur: A young boy and girl were found hanging from a tree at Chataguda village under Umerkote block of Nabarangpur district on Monday. The girl, aged 16, and boy, aged...

Bhubaneswar: A newborn baby boy was rescued from the roadside at Sastri Nagar in Bhubaneswar on Monday morning. Residents spotted the baby and informed Childline, which got the baby admitted to...

Bhubaneswar: Entrepreneur and 'Jai Odisha' founder Rudra Narayan Samantaray on Sunday joined the BJD along with his supporters in presence of party president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The joining...

Rayagada: An assistant collector in Odisha’s Rayagada district committed suicide, allegedly over work stress, on Sunday morning. Sources said Siba Prasad Panigrahi consumed excess dose of Chloroquine tablets on Sunday...

Bhubaneswar: Aswini Kumar Pujahari, former director of the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) in Burla, on Sunday joined the Congress. He joined the party in...

Bhubaneswar: Body of a missing youth was recovered from Puri main canal near Balianta, on the outskirts of the city, on Sunday. He has been identified as Robin Das, a resident of...

Bhubaneswar: Police seized 8kg of ganja (cannabis) worth over Rs 30,000 from Khandagiri area and arrested two peddlers here on Saturday. Rohit Behera Majhi (26) and Ratu Pradhan (23) were...

Dhenkanal: A man allegedly hacked his brother-in-law to death over past enmity at Bidyabandha village under Dhenkanal Sadar police limits on Saturday night. Sources said Rudra Narayan Naik had gone...

Nayagarh: Suspected Maoists have issued a death warrant against the BJD’s Daspalla Assembly candidate, Ramesh Behera, and threatened to blow up Daspalla, Nuagaon and Gania police stations and Nayagarh court between...