In a significant breakthrough for anti-insurgency operations, four active Maoist cadres, including three women, surrendered before Southern Range Inspector General (IG) Niti Shekhar at the Police Reserve Office in Berhampur on Friday. Earlier, Odisha DGP Yogesh Bahadur Khurania, on the su
New Delhi [India], January 22: Odisha's rich folk heritage was celebrated through music, movement, and traditional theatre at "Bhanja Mati Ra Mahak - A Journey Through Odisha's Folk Rhythms," a two-day cultural festival that paid tribute to the creative soil of Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja. Th
Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi was also present on the occasion. The Prime Minister was felicitated by Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati and the Chief Minister.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report alleging that a 20-year-old female college student was gang raped by nearly 10 men on the Gopalpur sea beach in Odisha's Ganjam district on June 15.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended the accused Senior Social Security Assistant (SSSA), EPFO Regional Office, Berhampur, District Ganjam, Odisha, while accepting a bribe of Rs. 10,000/- from the complainant, said the agency.
West Bengal Congress leader Soumya Aich Roy has written to Governor CV Ananda Bose, seeking action against Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir and Berhampur MP Yusuf Pathan for allegedly polarising voters on religious lines to secure victory in the 2024 general elections.
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Sambalpur, Dharmendra Pradhan emphasised that a change in Odisha was undeniable as people were very upset with the present Biju Janata Dal regime.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday stepped up the attack on Congress and Naveen Patnaik's party Biju Janata Dal and said that the people of the "rich state" remained "poor" and both parties are responsible for it.
"10.74 lakh poor families, that is, 55 crore individuals, who are known by their professions like rikshawalas, vegetable vendors, bus conductors, cleaners, drivers, truck cleaners and drivers, liftman operators, barbers...all of them have been given Rs 5 lakh annually for treatment of seriou