The five-phase panchayat elections in Orissa came to an end on Sunday with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) bagging more than two-thirds of the zila parishad seats.

Orissa chief minister and Naveen Patnaik on Saturday alleged that the Centre was not “forthcoming” in sharing information on important decisions, including the ones taken on national security.

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa seems to be well ahead of its two main rivals — the Congress and the BJP — in the ongoing panchayat elections.

India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor Advanced Air Defence-05 (AAD).
According to defence source, the AAD-05 successfully hit a ballistic missile at a height of 15 km off the coast of Orissa, near Wheelers Island.

Four BSF personnel, including a commandant and assistant commandant, were killed on Friday afternoon and two others seriously injured in a Maoist ambush at Janiguda, under Chitrakonda police limit in Orissa’s Malkangiri district, nearly 650 km from here.

Orissa excise minister A.U.

Mineral resources are non-renewable.

Members of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), engaged in the culling of poultry birds, on Monday faced an embarrassing situation in Bhubaneswar.

Madhusmita Sahoo had loads of dreams in her eyes. She wanted to become something in her life.

In a bid to contain spread of bird flu in Bhubaneswar and its adjoining areas, culling of birds began here on Sunday.
At least 47,000 poultry birds will be called in the next three days.