The Latest Breaking News from Odisha

Vijayawada's Prakasam Barrage selected for WHIS-2023 Award. Balidiha Irrigation Project, Odisha, Jayamangal Anicut, Odisha, and Srivaikuntam Anicut, Tamil Nadu also selected. Award to be presented during 25th ICID Congress in Visakhapatnam.

BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report from Keonjhar district magistrate and SP in three cases where minor girls were sexually assaulted last month. While a girl is pregnant, the second one gave birth to a baby boy last month.

Though the survey report was not officially made public by the Naveen Patnaik Government, both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress said the survey failed to capture clear picture of backward classes.

70% of landless Odisha population denied access to PMAY-G due to lack of homestead land. CAG audit found 0.12% of houses sanctioned for PwDs, recommended priority for landless & PwD beneficiaries.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced a cash award of Rs 1.5 crore for javelin thrower Kishore Kumar Jena from the state who has bagged a silver at the ongoing Asian Games in China's Hangzhou.

The Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes, which submitted the first-ever survey on Socially Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) on Tuesday, said totally 53,96,132 households comprising a population of 1,94,88,671 belonged to backward classes in the State. As against an OBC community population widely believed to be exceeding 50% in the…

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said investigating agencies are independent and they act according to law

Three mainstream political parties the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are now competing with each other through massive outreach programmes ahead of forthcoming general and State elections scheduled next year. The ruling BJD on Monday launched an annual month-long padyatra ‘Jan Sampark Yatra’…

A pilgrim died while several others were injured after a tourist bus collided with a vehicle in Bihar's Kaimur district on Friday morning. Read further on Dynamite News:

Coffee Board facilitating expansion of coffee cultivation beyond south India. 2 lakh acres of tribal-occupied land identified in North East, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. South region has limited scope for expansion, but still produces 70% of India's coffee. WCC 2023 saw 347 formal business-to-business meetings, 12,522 business visitors and 2,600…

After suffering a humiliating 0-4 loss to Mohun Bagan Super Giant in their debut AFC Cup group league match at home last week, Odisha FC returned stronger in their Indian Super League (ISL) opener against Chennaiyin FC to register a 2-0 win.