Officials said the Odisha government is working with a mission to achieve zero casualty and efforts would begin to evacuate people from the vulnerable areas. However, it seems that conditions for the...

The Odisha government has deployed 168 specialised units in seven districts of the state where Cyclone Gulab is likely to make a severe impact following its landfall on Sunday evening. The units comp...

A young television journalist was swept away in the strong currents of the swollen Mahanadi in Cuttack on Friday while covering an operation to rescue an elephant stranded in the river. Arindam Das, ...

Odisha, which was reeling under rain fury last week, is expected to receive more showers owing to the formation of a low-pressure area over Bay of Bengal that may further intensify into depression. T...

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who hails from Odisha, has urged Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to withdraw its police force from a disputed area on the inter-state ...

A 53-year-old sweetmeat seller in Odisha was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing 20 stray dogs with poison in the last five days. The accused, Ajay Kumar Sahoo, was held following his latest k...

A 20-year-old suspected bootlegger, who had jumped into a river to evade arrest by excise department officials on Monday, was found dead on Tuesday. The body of Sapan Majhi was fished out from the Ka...

Students in Odisha will get a chance to pursue engineering courses in their mother tongue Odia from the next academic year 2022-23, official sources have said. In order to create a blueprint for this...

The incessant rain for the past few days has stalled O the Odisha government’s ambitious plan to attach radio collars on elephants to monitor the herds’ movement. The scientists from the ...

The construction of an embankment by the Bengal government on Udaipur beach, on the Odisha border of East Midnapore’s Digha, was stalled on Thursday evening by police in the neighbouring state. ...