Niranjan Behera

Police on Sunday arrested Atish Kumar Mohanty, deputy manager (operations) of a sponge iron plant in Keonjhar district, in connection with a mishap in the unit on Saturday.

Former India opener Shiv Sundar Das, besides Pravanjan Mallick and Basanta Mohanty, have been dropped from the 18-member Orissa team for the inter-state One-day zonal league (East Zone) at Cuttack.

The national selectors announced a list of 30 probables for Twenty20 cricket WC, which included out-of-favour players like Sehwag and Harbhajan.

Upcoming Odia film Prema Pain Mahabharata's mahurat was held at the Press Club of Odisha near Master Canteen Square on Monday.

Right hand batsman Natraj Behera will lead a 15-member Odisha team in the league stages of the Ranji Trophy tournament to start on November 2 at Cuttack, announced Odisha Cricket Association Asirbad Behera on Monday.

An unbearable heatwave put the brakes on Brahmataladhwaja, the chariot of Baladevjew temple in Kendrapada, on Tuesday on the occasion of Rath Yatra, breaking an age-old tradition.

Despite the Supreme Court’s order, persons with disabilities (PWD)s employed with the state government alleged they are yet to get quota in promotions. As per as the apex court order, PWD employees are eligible for 4% reservations in promotions.

The actors and crew members of upcoming Odia movie Yogi met the children of jail inmates of Jharapada Special Jail, Bhubaneswar to convey the message of their film.

The district administration has begun an eviction drive on Thursday on both sides of the main road at Kendrapada’s New Bus Stand and its nearby market.

The headmaster of an upper primary school in Jagatsinghpur district was suspended on Wednesday for allegedly pilfering rice meant for the children's mid-day meal by doctoring the attendance registers. He has also been accused for receiving commission from the vendor supplying school dresses for the children.

Suspecting him to be a 'black magician', about ten people attacked Bhimrao Atka, tied him to an electric pole and later packed him alive in a bag and threw him into the river.

The state government on Saturday transferred the district collectors of Keonjhar, Kendrapada, Bhadrak, Sambalpur and Jharsuguda.

Fifteen luxury tents will be pitched for tourists with each tent having water, power supply and parking facilities. Cultural festivals, food festivals and trekking in the nearby mangrove forest will be made available to visitors, said Niranjan Behera, sub-collector (Kendrapada), at a review meeting in Pentha on Monday.

Road communication between Ganjam's Sorada and Kandhamal's Daringibadi was disrupted on Monday following the road blockade by suspected Maoists Gajalabadi within Sorada police limits.

Though they have different job profiles, age and background, the love for cricket has brought them together.

Officials on Friday launched a massive demolition drive against illegal prawn farms at Bhitarkanika National Park in the district as per the order of the Orissa high court. The high court, in its order dated May 31, had directed the district administration to dismantle all illegal prawn gheries in Bhitarkanika after Mohit Agarwal, the amicus curiae, pointed out that despite a series of statutory provisions, the brazen violation by those operating illegal prawn gheries is continuing and that no case or complaint has been registered against the violators.