Odisha

A police officer in Odisha has been suspended in connection with the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl following which some cops under him had made her undergo an abortion without informing the distr...

A special squad of Bhubaneswar Development Authority and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on Thursday inspected all private hospitals here to check whether they are following Covid-19 guidelines.“W...

Crackers that had been stored to drive away elephants exploded and seriously injured a forest official on Wednesday.The incident took place in a forest colony in Dhenkanal, about 85km from here, on We...

All 5,000 servitors, policemen and Shree Jagannath Temple employees who were involved in the Puri Rath Yatra on Tuesday will undergo Covid-19 tests before they are cleared to be at the Bahuda Yatra (r...

The Puri Rath Yatra was conducted as scheduled on Tuesday amid curfew-like restrictions in the temple town, and without devotees.With the Supreme Court on Monday reversing its earlier decision and all...

The Odisha government has accepted Puri royal family scion Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb’s request to move the Supreme Court seeking a review of its order cancelling the Rath Yatra in view of the pandemi...

On a normal day, Panchami Nayak, an Accredited Social Health Activist (Asha), would go around Mali Sahi, the red light area of the state, counselling pregnant women, sex workers and children, ensuring...

A man allegedly chopped off the head of his 60-year-old aunt suspecting her to be a witch who was responsible for the death of his child in Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, around 240km from here. He la...

The Odisha government has hiked the honorarium amount of sarpanches by 25 per cent acknowledging their role as frontline warriors in the battle against coronavirus. A sarpanch will get Rs 2,350 per mo...

Two questions are on everyone’s mind in Odisha.One, will the Rath Yatra be held this year at all?Two, if the Odisha government allows the event, should elephants be harnessed to pull the three chari...