In a major mishap, at least 20 people, most of them tribals, were killed and 40 others injured when a tractor overturned at Kalyanpur in Rayagada district, nearly 450 km from here, on Friday evening.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday expressed his anguish over the recent increase in cases of brutal assault on women and child rape and said it was time the nation reset its moral compass.

Expelled BJD leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra on Tuesday converted his Orissa Jana Morcha (OJM) forum into a political party, without changing its name.

The Congress on Monday alleged that Orissa chief minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik had deliberately showed undue favour to his ministerial colleagues and party men by allotting precious lands

The Orissa government, without any specified policy or procedure, has allotted government land to several individuals, government and private organisations, causing serious financial losses to the sta

Former Orissa law minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife Pritilata Mohanty, who face dowry torture charge levelled against them by their daughter-in-law Barsha Showny Mohanty, were on Saturday morning arrested from Shalimar area in West Bengal’s Howrah district.

Former Orissa law minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife Pritilata Mohanty, who face dowry torture charge levelled against them by their daughter-in-law Barsha Showny Mohanty, were on Saturday arrested from Shalimar area in West Bengal’s Howrah district.

The Orissa department of water resources (DoWR) held by chief minister Naveen Patnaik does not have “streamlined” procedure for identification, priroitisation and selection of projects implemented under the Nabard supported rural infrastructure development (RIDF) programme, says the annual Comptroller and Auditor General Report tabled in the Assembly recently.

More embarrassment for Orissa government now. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found unlawful extraction of iron ore, manganese ore as well as coal in excess of approved limit without prior environment clearance (EC) in the state.

The four-member Kerala police team which is currently in Orissa on Saturday said Bittihotra Mohanty alias Bitti’s father “Bidya Bhusan Mohapatra is innocent and there is no evidence to suggest that he helped his rape convict son to forge his certificates as Raghav Rajan.