Briefs

Sonepur: A 50-year-old woman was hacked to death at her home at Raipalli village near Lachhipur in Sonepur district on Saturday morning. Police sources said the deceased, Laxmi Barik, was busy with her household chores when an unidentified…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet will discuss eight proposals at a meeting on Friday evening. According to official sources, the meeting, to be presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat at 5.45 pm, will discuss…

Kandhamal: Congress leader and a former MLA from Kandhamal district, Sahula Mallick passed away due to protracted illness at the government hospital at Baliguda early on Friday. He was 85. Mallick had won from Baliguda three times in 1974,…

Bhubaneswar: Four districts in Odisha, including Bhubaneswar, are likely to experience thundershower and lightning with one or two spells of rain on Thursday evening. The IMD forecast is for Nayagarh, Khurda (including Bhubaneswar),…

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday inaugurated Kharavela Bhawan, the newly-constructed Odisha Secretariat Building, at Unit-5 here. The nine-storey building, which will house offices of 12 departments of the state…

Khurda: Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Central Division), Anil Kumar Samal was rushed to a hospital after he collapsed during an Independence Day celebration in Khurda on Thursday. According to reports, the RDC was the chief guest at the…

Bhubaneswar: The Mancheswar Police arrested a looter and seized 13 mobile phones from his possession on Tuesday. The accused has been identified as Dipu Das. He belongs to Tareni basti under Saheed Nagar police limits here. According to…

Cuttack: Higher Education Minister Arun Sahoo made a surprise visit to the Choudwar College here on Wednesday. The Minister went to every classrooms of the college and checked for himself whether all teachers were present. Sahoo expressed…

Bhubaneswar: Two days after the death of tigress ‘Priyanka’, Nandankanan Zoological Park, on the outskirts of the city, on Wednesday lost a baby Nilgiri langur. The reason behind its death not known. The baby was born a day after its…

Bhubaneswar: Eleven policemen from Odisha will be conferred with the prestigious President’s Medal on Independence Day. They will awarded in the categories of Fire Service, Home Guards and Civil Defence. Bharat Bhusan Nayak will receive…