Orissa News
Anti-Posco agitators held, released
Top hardcore Maoists leader Azad held, taken to custody by CB
BJP challenges Orissa CM for public debate on major issues
Jairam seeks manuscript on Orissa plants written in 1725
Orissa Police get to question top Maoist leader
Electronic gates, Bear Safari soon in Nandankanan Zoo
Naveen calls for conservation of bio-diversity
Bio Cultural Park to be developed in Orissa: Jairam Ramesh
Orissa to invest Rs 250 crore for 1513 pipewater project
School and Mass Education Department to implement mid-day meal scheme in Orissa
Security guard kills wife, sons
Smoking is just like mouth fresheners for us: Koratpur tribals
High Court restrains Orissa Government from signing MoU for new ports
Ruling BJD MLA's wife file criminal complaint against Party MP
Govt must tackle structural gaps to counter Naxalites: Binayak Sen
Senior BJD leader suspended from party
Five held for kidnapping murder
Tribals stoned to death by armed Maoists in Orissa
Opposition to Posco plant in Orissa
Miscreants looted Rs 8.10 lakh at gunpoint
Land acquisition for POSCO project: HC to hear on June 3
Brown sugar worth Rs 2 crore seized, two held
Orissa to spend Rs.12,000 crore on Irrigation
Naveen denies differences in BJD,dubs Naik's allegation as ''false
Orissa, Chattishgarh to oppose Polavaram project
Dacoits loot Rs 5.23 lakh from Birangatula SBI branch
Land acquisition for POSCO project: HC to hear on June 3
Maoist attack: Who asked Chhattisgarh cops to enter Orissa?
Posco port and Dock Workers' Union leader held for cheating
Nursing students threaten self immolation
Authority to identify illegal prawn gheries
Multi-crore scams in BJD Govt, BJP demands probe by SIT
Cell to detect govt land grabbed through fraudulent means
Cell to detect govt land grabbed through fraudulent means
Tribal held for burning alive a fellow villager
Miscreants loot Rs.8.8 lakh at gun point
OPCC to move Apex court for CBI probe in MNREGA scam
OAS officers in Orissa asked to submit property list by June 15
Demand for National Chhau centre at Baripada gathers momentum
Tribal held for burning alive fellow villager
Tribal held for burning alive a fellow villager
OPCC to move Apex court for CBI probe in MNREGA scam
Orissa Chief Minister to withdraw cases against tribals booked on Maoists charges by June
Orissa govt to release 168 tribals accused of Maoist violence
Orissa steel mills want regulated pricing
First phase of JSPL to produce two MTPA steel next month
Major reshuffle in Orissa Police administration
Mountaineer Kalpana's dharna enters third day
POSCO project important for Orissa and India- Naveen
OSEM to impart 'driving training' to 10,000 youth
Miscreant arrested in Bokaro
Woman Everest climber resorts to begging to make ends meet
500 waterbodies for wild animals in Orissa
Maoists blasts Orissa railway track
Two IAS officers tender unconditional apology to court
Broker detained, three APR constables suspended
Two IAS officers tender unconditional apology to court
Maoists blow up railway track in Orissa
Orissa High Court issues notice on land acquisition for POSCO
Forest rights activists protest against POSCO project in Orissa
Land acquisition for POSCO steel plant continues for second day
Orissa govt to introduce reward scheme to trap Maoists
Orissa govt to introduce reward scheme to trap Maoists
Western Orissa continues to reel under gruelling heat
BJD leader arrested for tender fixing
Orissa Football Asso announces cash award for women football team
Lightning claims life in Bengal
College student drown in river hooghly
Kandhamal riots: Jail term for 13
Land acquisition for Posco resumes, despite protest
Orissa HC asks Crime Branch to expand its purview of investigation
NIIL asks Orissa to force power companies to sell power to state
Laxmanananda murder probe: Court slams tardy police probe
Simlipal Lok Sansad vows to protect Simlipal bio sphere
Orissa cabinet approves new litigation policy
Sub-inspector, constable held while demanding bribe
Orissa to provide 13,177 homes under 'Mo Kudia' scheme
New hurdles for Posco's land acquisition plans
Mohanty demands cancellation of power contracts with BSES
5 pol parties oppose land acquisition for POSCO project
Orissa villagers pleased with installation of water supply project
Orissa zoo launches special summer menu for animals
BJD announces statewide agitation against hike in petrol price
Ruling Biju Janata Dal , CPI protest petrol hike,burn effigies of Prime Minister , Sonia
Cultural groups protest Chhau centre in Jharkhand
Orissa sculptor wins prize in Moscow
Maoists, police exchange fire in Orissa
NCP demands CB inquiry into multi-crore tender fixing
Lured for overseas job, plumbers return home with empty hand
Gruelling heat cripples life in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, June 3 : A group of villagers in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district were Friday detained and later released when they opposed land acquisition for the proposed USD 12 billion steel project by South Korean company Posco, police said. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, Jun 2 : Top hardcore Maoist leader Duna Keshav Rao alias Azad wanted in several criminal cases by Orissa police, including the sensational murder of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples, was taken to three-day custody by the Crime Branch police for further interrogation. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, Jun 2 :Senior Orissa BJP leader and former minister Bijaya Mohapatra today dared Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for a public debate on the corruption charges lavelled against him by the party and also from his former cabinet colleagues. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, June 2 : Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday asked for help from the French envoy in India to get a digitised copy of a manuscript on plants in Orissa written by a Frenchman in 1725. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, June 2 : A court in Orissa Thursday handed over the custody of a top state Maoist leader, an accused in the 2008 murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, to the state police for questioning, official said. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, Jun 1 : After the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad, the Nandan Kanan National Zoological Park here will soon have electronic gates to help the visitors a smooth entry into the zoo and a bear safari to have the glimpse of the animals in open. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, Jun 1: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today underscored the need for maintaining the rich bio-diversity which he said will help combat the climate crisis, alleviate poverty, support human health and leave the beautiful legacy of nature for generations to come. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, Jun 1 : For the first time in country, a bio-cultural Park will be developed in Orissa, Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh announced here today. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 31 : Orissa government today decided to invest Rs 250 crore to take up 1513 pipewater project to provide pure drinking water to the panchayat headquarters. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 31 : The mid-day meal scheme in the primary schools across Orissa will now be implemented by the School and Mass Education Department instead of Women and Child Development Department. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, June 1 : A security guard of a state-run company axed his wife and two sons to death and later surrendered before the police, officials said Wednesday. Read Full Story
Koratpur (Orissa), May 31 : The world celebrated Anti-Tobacco Day on Tuesday, but for tribal folk in Orissa's Koratpur District, it made no difference, as they continue to smoke 'Pika' a locally made cigarette, unaware and ignorant of the hazardous effects of tobacco consumption. Read Full Story
Cuttack, May 31 : The Orissa Government has been restrained by the High Court from signing any further MoUs with any developers or concessionaire for establishing ports in the state. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 30 : The infighting in the ruling Biju Janata Dal today came to fore with the wife of a party MLA filing a written criminal complaint against the party MP despite a warning from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik not to indulge in anti party activities. Read Full Story
Mumbai, May 30 : Civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen today said the government should look into the structural gaps that has led to hunger and displacement suffered by millions of poor if it wanted to tackle the Naxalite problem. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 29: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President Naveen Patnaik suspended party's senior leader and former minister Debashis Nayak for indulging in anti party activities. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 29 : Police today arrested five people, including three members of a family, from Tumkela Basti near Ispat College under Sector-15 Police Station of the steel city on the charges of kidnapping and murdering a seven year boy. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 28 : Two tribals in separate villages under Nuapada district in Western Orissa were stoned to death by armed Maoists late last night. Read Full Story
Paradip (Orissa), May 28 : Eight police personnel were taken hostage near Orissa's Paradip town on Saturday by a group of locals, who are opposing the Rs. 52,000 crore Posco steel plant. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 28 : Armed miscreants today looted Rs 8.10 lakh from an employee of a Steel company near Jamunanaki under Brahmanitrarang police station. Read Full Story
Cuttack, May 27 :The Orissa High Court refused to grant stay on the ongoing land acquisition processes undertaken by the state government at Paradeep for a POSCO project. Read Full Story
Puri, May 27 : The vigilance intelligence team from Cuttack arrested two people and seized brown sugar worth Rs two crore from them. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 27 : Orissa government has targetted to create irrigation potential for three lakh hectares of farm land through the development of medium and major irrigation projects in next three year. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May27: Biju Janata Dal Supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today denied any differences in the party. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 27 : Orissa and Chhattisgarh would jointly oppose the multipurpose Polavaram irrigation project, constructed by the Andra Pradesh government on river Godavari. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 27 : Armed dacoits today looted Rs 5.23 lakh from Birangatola branch of State Bank of India under Kutra police station, about 80 km from here. Read Full Story
Cuttack, May 27: The Orissa High Court refused to grant stay on the ongoing land acquisition processes undertaken by the state government at Paradeep for a POSCO project. Read Full Story
Raipur, May 27 : Top police officials here say they are still unaware of who ordered a 10-member Chhattisgarh police team to cross over to Orissa for combing, four days after Maoists killed nine of them in the neighbouring state and then cut the bodies into pieces. Read Full Story
Kendrapada, May 27 : Police have arrested Prasanna Mohapatra, the president of Posco port and Dock Workers' Union, on charges of collecting money from unemployed youth on the pretext of providing job at the Posco steel project in Orissa. Read Full Story
Kendrpada, May 26 : About 60 students of the Tulasi Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery (ANM) Training School, who were deprived by the authorities to appear for the Board examination, have threatened to immolate themselves. Read Full Story
Kendrapara, Orissa, May 26 : Kendrapada District Collector Pradipta Kumar Pattnaik directed the tehsildars of Rajnagar and Mahakalapada to identify illegal prawn gheries set up unauthorisedly on government and private lands without obtaining license from the concerned authority. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 26 : The BJP state unit today released a 31-page charge sheet against the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janta Dal government, listing several multi-crore scams and demanded a probe by Special Investigation Team (SIT), monitored by the Court. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 25: The Orissa government has constituted a cell to detect government land acquired by people fraudulently by manipulating documents. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 25 :The Orissa government has constituted a cell to detect government land acquired by people fraudulently by manipulating documents. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 25:Police today arrested one Bhakada Bhota of Sorada village under Bisra Police station of Sundergarh district on the charges of burning a fellow villager alive. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 25 : Two miscreants looted Rs 8.8 lakh from an employee of a sponge iron plant at gun point from the Civil township area of the steel city today. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 25: Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) working president L B Mohapatra today said his party will file a PIL in the Supreme court praying for a CBI probe into the MNREGA bungling in all the 30 districts in Orissa. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 25 :Orissa Revenue Minister Surya Narayan Patro warned that disciplinary action would be taken against the Orissa Administrative Service (OAS) Officers working under the Revenue Department if they did not submit their property list latest by June 15 next. Read Full Story
Baripada, Orissa, May 25:The ongoing movement by four New Delhi based cultural outfits and a group of exponents of Chhau dance and researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) has gathered momentum with more people and institutions from Mayurbhanj joining the chorus demanding establishment of the proposed National Centre for the dance at Baripada. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 25: Police today arrested one Bhakada Bhota of Sorada village under Bisra Police station of Sundergarh district on the charges of burning a fellow villager alive. Read Full Story
Rourkela, May 25 (:Police today arrested one Bhakada Bhota of Sorada village under Bisra Police station of Sundergarh district on the charges of burning a fellow villager alive. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 25 : Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) working president L B Mohapatra today said his party will file a PIL in the Supreme court praying for a CBI probe into the MNREGA bungling in all the 30 districts in Orissa. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 25 : Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has assured Maoist mediators that cases against tribals and some others, who had been lodged in jails on charges of Maoist activities, would be withdrawn by June. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 24 : Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today assured the interlocutors who negotiated on behalf of the Maoists to complete the process for the release of 168 prisoners involved in nine cases of Maoist violence by June 30 next. Read Full Story
Kolkata, May 25 : The Central government should adopt a pricing model for steel mill raw materials that would level the raising costs and save the ailing industry, Orissa steel producers said at a news conference in Kolkata on Tuesday. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 24 : The first phase of six MTPA steel plant set up, by the Jindal Steel and Power Limited(JSPL), will commence commercial production of two MTPA steel by next month. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 24 : The Orissa government has initiated a massive reshuffle in the police administration by promoting and transferring as many as 41 officials, 37 IPS among them. Read Full Story
Puri, May 23:Puri District Collector Fakira Charan Satpathy along the Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar and the sports officer today met the mountaineer Kalpana Das, who is on a begging agitation in front of the Sri Jagannath temple since May 21 last and asked her to call off her agitation at the earliest. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 23 : Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the mega steel plant, proposed by the South Korea Steel major POSCO, the biggest Foreign Direct Investment in the country, was not only important for the state but also for India as it would bring a great deal of revenue and create job opportunities for many people. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 23: The Orissa State Employment Mission (OSEM) today decided to impart 'driving training' to 10,000 unemployed youths on PPP mode to meet the growing demand for drivers in the coming days. Read Full Story
Bokaro, May 23 : Police today arrested a miscreant trying to loot a jeep after hiring it from the bus stand located under Gomia police station area in this district. Read Full Story
Puri, May 22: Kalpana Das, the first women Everest climber of the state has been found begging before the Lord Jagannath temple here. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May : The Orissa government has decided to construct 500 waterbodies to provide water to the wild animals in the water stress areas of the forest in a bid to prevent the deaths of animals following water shortage. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 21 : Suspected Maoists blasted a railway track and set ablaze at least 12 dumpers at Sundargarh district in Orissa on Saturday. Read Full Story
Cuttack, May 21 : Orissa High Court had remitted the punishments imposed on two IAS officers and a school inspector for their 'willful disobedience' of court orders after all the three contemnor-officials tendered unconditional and unqualified apology to the Court. Read Full Story
Kendrapada, May 21: Three APR constables were suspended on the charges of collecting money after forming an unholy nexus with the broker to allow the iron laden trucks to Paradip violate traffic rules. Read Full Story
Cuttack, May 21 : Orissa High Court had remitted the punishments imposed on two IAS officers and a school inspector for their 'willful disobedience' of court orders after all the three contemnor-officials tendered unconditional and unqualified apology to the Court yesterday. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 21 : Maoists on Saturday blew up a railway track in Orissa''s Sundargarh District on the first day of a two-day shutdown called by the rebels against alleged security excesses. Read Full Story
Cuttack, Mar 20 : Orissa High Court issued notices to the state government, the Central government and the Posco-India Pvt Ltd to file counters to a PIL filed in the court challenging among other things, the impugned 'forest clearance' granted in favour of the Company. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 20: Members of a voluntary group along with many forest rights activists on Friday protested against the decision of the Orissa government to resume land acquisition for the mega POSCO project. Read Full Story
Paradip, Orissa May 19 : Notwithstanding the protest by the activists of the United Action Committee (UAC), the Jagatsinghpur district administration continued their land acquisition process for the Rs 51,000 crore 12 MTPA steel plant by South Korean steel major near here for the second day today. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 19: The Orissa government will soon introduce a reward scheme for informers and police officials who would help trap Maoists and hardcore criminals. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 19 : The Orissa government will soon introduce a reward scheme for informers and police officials who would help trap Maoists and hardcore criminals. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 18 : Western Orissa continued to reel under gruelling heat as the mercury continued to hover above 40 degrees Celsius in most of the places. Read Full Story
Kendrapara, May 18: Police arrested Narayan Swain, a BJD leader and the former Sarpanch of Baro Gram Panchayat for tender fixing. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 18: The Football Association of Orissa decided to give a cash award of Rs 2,20,000 to Orissa State Senior Women Football team members for their outstanding performance in the women national football championship. Read Full Story
Barrackpore, May 18 : A woman died today after lightning struck her at Bilkanda under Ghola police station in North 24 Parganas district. Read Full Story
Barrackpore, May 18 : A college student drowned in river hooghly near Dakshineswar North 24 Paraganas yesterday, police said. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 18 : A fast track court Wednesday sentenced 13 people to five years' rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in a house burning incident during the Kandhamal riots in Orissa in 2008, a defence lawyer said. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 18 : Despite opposition from the locals, the Orissa government Wednesday resumed the land acquisition process for South Korean steel major Posco's USD 12 billion project in the state amid massive police deployment. Read Full Story
Cuttack, May 17:Orissa High Court today again asked the state crime branch police to expand the purview of its investigation and file a fresh affidavit in Hindu seer Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati's murder case in Kandhamal district. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 17 : National Institute of Indian Labour (NIIL), a voluntary organisation, today alleged that while Orissa was reeling under a severe power crisis, the private power generating companies were minting money by selling their power to other states. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 17 : The Orissa High Court Tuesday expressed its displeasure over the way the state police was probing the 2008 murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Laxmanananda Saraswati in Kandhamal, a killing which had triggered massive riots in the district, a lawyer said. Read Full Story
Baripada, May 17 :Simlipal Lok Sansad, a voluntary orgnisation committed to the conservation of forest, today expressed its grave concern over increasing threats to rich and varied biological diversities of the Simlipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR), encompassing a total area of 5569 square kilometers. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 17 : The Orissa government today decided to formulate a litigtion policy with an objective to reduce the number of court cases and to try resolve the maximum number of cases possible through an alternative redressal mechanism. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 16: A police sub inspector and constable were arrested by vigilance sleuths for accepting bribe to compromise a dispute. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 16: The Orissa government has set a target to provide home to 13,177 homeless at a total cost of Rs 60 crore under the ''Mo Kudia'' scheme during the current year. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 16 : Orissa's plans to resume land acquisition for the Posco project in the state faced new trouble with project's supporters Monday refusing to cooperate unless their demands were met. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 16:Transparency International India Board member Biswajit Mohanty today alleged that some Orissa government officials have connived with BSES Limited, which has been blacklisted, to earn crores of rupees in clear violation of government orders. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 16: Leaders of five Opposition political parties today threatened to oppose Rs 51,000 crore POSCO-steel plant project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district if the government went ahead with its decision to resume the land acquisition process for the project from May 18. Read Full Story
Gulunda (Orissa), May 16 : Locals in Gulunda village of Orissa said they are pleased with the supply of potable water after the installation of a water project in the area. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 16 : Authorities in Orissa's Nandankanan Zoo have introduced a special summer menu to protect animals from the heat wave with the mercury crossing 45 degrees Celsius in the state, officials said. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : Strongly condemning the hike in petrol price the ruling Biju Janata Dal in Orissa today announced a statewide agitation in protest. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : Ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the CPI activists staged a demonstration in the city, burnt effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to protest the hike in petrol prices. Read Full Story
Baripada, May 15 : The Oriya youths along with several cultural platforms have protested the reported decision of the Central Sangeet Natak Academy (SNA) to establish a Chhau Research Centre at Jharkhand's Jamshedpur, instead of one at Mayurbhanj. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 15 : Orissa-based sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's sculpture of Mona Lisa, won the people's choice prize at the 3rd Moscow World Sand Sculpture Championship in Russia. Read Full Story
Bhubaneswar, May 14 : Security personnel exchanged fire with a group of armed Maoists in a forested area of Orissa's Malkangiri district Saturday, police said, adding no casualties occurred on either side. Read Full Story
Kendrapada, May 13: Former Orissa unit President of Nationalist Congress Party Utkal Keshari Parida today demanded crime branch inquiry into the tender fixing cases in Kendrapada district during the last five years. Read Full Story
Kendrapada, May 13: All the ten skilled plumbers stranded in New Delhi due to paucity of funds after being lured and cheated by an overseas placement agencies returned to their village today. Read Full Story
Bhubanewar,May 12 : Normal life across Orissa continued to be affected for the past several days as mercury crossed 40 degree Celsius in over 15 districts out of which seven towns were reeling under gruelling heat with day temperature rising above 44 degree Celsius. Read Full Story
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