The BCCI has shortlisted 20 players for the ICC World Cup 2023 in October to be held in India. Many experts believe that a wider pool of players should be in the reckoning for the World Cup while others agree that the team should be built around its core.
In the run-up to the Hockey World Cup 2023 commencing from 13th January this year, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday inaugurated the "Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium" with the seating Capacity of 20,000 at Rourkela in the western region of the state.
The Pakistan men's interim selection committee on Thursday named a 16-player squad for the three-match ODI series against New Zealand, which will be played here at the Karachi stadium on January 9, 11 and 13.
Two days after a third Russian was found dead near the coast of Odisha, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said it would not link the deaths of three Russian nationals who recently died in India, as the probe is underway in all the cases.
The Indian team, which is in pool D with England, Spain, and Wales, will begin their campaign on January 13 in the newly built Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela against Spain, followed by their second pool D match against England.
The Rajya Sabha MP of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Amar Patnaik on Thursday said that the rural tele-density in Odisha is only 62.73 per cent and hence the benefits of the Centre-launched 5G services will only reach to the urban areas and the rural will be deprived of it.
The Jio 5G network will expand rapidly across the state, covering the cities of Rourkela, Berhampur, Puri, Sambalpur, and Balasore by February 2023, and subsequently reach to every tehsils and talukas by December 2023.
The Gaurs have had mixed results in their last five games -- two wins, two losses, and one one draw -- which has led them stay put in the fifth position in the league standings with 19 points, level with sixth-placed Odisha FC
Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday lodged FIR against the former Principal Chief Operations Manager of East Coast Railway PK Jena in connection with a disproportionate asset case.
Odisha Special Task Force (STF) arrested a wildlife criminal and seized a tiger skin, a leopard skin and other incriminating materials from Boudh district.
'Jaga Mission', an initiative by the Naveen Patnaik government to upgrade almost 3,000 slums in Odisha, has won Bronze for the second time at an awards show organised by World Habitat, in partnership with UN-Habitat.