Six persons, who allegedly gangraped a tribal woman in front of her husband on Sunday night at Baripada in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district, were on Tuesday sent to jail after their bail petitions were rejected by a local court.

The Orissa government on Saturday announced the launching of a pilot project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to provide at least 150 days of work to poor people

The Orissa government on Saturday announced the launching of a pilot project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to provide at least 150 days of work to poor people in the state.
In the first phase, the project would be implemented in Bolangir and Nuapada districts which report highest number of migration of poor people to other states to work in hazardous sectors.

A fast-track court in Orissa on Thursday awarded death penalty to a man three months after he abducted, raped and murdered a three-year-old girl.

After battling for life in hospital for 13 days, the 17-year-old girl who was gang-raped in Orissa’s Rayagada town on January 2 evening, died at a private hospital at Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday raised the special category state (SCS) status for the state at the National Development Council meeting held in New Delhi, thus making implicitly clear that his party, the BJD, is likely to make it a major issue in the 2014 polls.

Pratibha Ray, a leading Oriya novelist and academician, who was on Thursday named for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for the year 2011, said she was extremely happy to get the honour and stated that it would inspire here to come out with many more creations.

At a time when the entire country is protesting the gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, Orissa capital has shockingly witnessed two identical incidents in less than a week’s period.

In a significant development, that may well mark the beginning of a complete course change in mines and mineral management, the Orissa high court has put a brake on operations of 80 mines whose lease

The Congress on Saturday demanded investigation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into allegation of payment of ransom to the Maoists to secure release of former Malkangiri collector R. Vineel Krishna and BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka.