Devotees roll on hot sand during a ritual as a part of 'Danda' (self punishment) festival, in Khordha.
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Artist Sudarshan Pattnaik gives finishing touches to a sand sculpture to create awareness of 'Tika Utsav', a vaccine festival called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Puri.
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Beneficiaries wait in queues to receive the COVID-19 vaccine doses at a PHC, in Bhubaneswar.
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Police personnel stop Congress workers and supporters during their protest ‘Yuva Akrosh Samavesh’ against unemployment and price hike in fuel, in Bhubaneswar.
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President Ram Nath Kovind, first lady Savita Kovind and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan visit the Jagannath Temple in Puri.
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Bollywood actor and former MP Govinda during his visit to Jagannath Temple in Puri.
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President Ram Nath Kovind speaks at the 18th convocation of NIT Rourkela.
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BJP MLAs stage a protest in front of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik residence over pending paddy procurement (Mandi Mismanagement) by the government, in Bhubaneswar.
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Farmer union leaders and activists pay tribute to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi before the start of 'Krushak Adhikar Yatra', in solidarity with the ongoing farmers' protest against Ce...
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Devotees wait in a queue to offer prayers on the occasion of 'Maha Shivratri' festival, at Lingaraja Temple in Bhubaneswar.
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BJP workers take out a protest rally against the state government over the alleged deteriorating law and order situation, in Bhubaneswar.
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Fire at Similipal National Park in Odisha.
Fire at Similipal National Park in Odisha.
Fire at Similipal National Park in Odisha.
Fire at Similipal National Park in Odisha.
Fire at Similipal National Park in Odisha.
Fire at Simlipal National Park in Odisha.
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The fire has spread to 8 of the 21 forest ranges of Simlipal.
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Forest fires ravage the Podadiha range in Odisha
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Supporters take part in a cycle rally organised to pay tribute to former CM Biju Patnaik on his birth anniversary, in Bhubaneswar.
In an interview with Outlook, Mindtree Co-founder Subroto Bagchi talks about his decision to donate Rs 340 crores to set up a cancer care and a palliative centre in Bhubaneswar, his dream for Odisha and much more
The weather department is also expecting isolated heavy rainfall over the south and ghat areas of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Mahe, coastal and south interior Karnataka during April 14-16
The minister had made the announcement first in November 2019 while attending the alumni meet organized by the university to mark its platinum jubilee in Bhubaneswar.
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Tuesday asked all states and union territories to increase RT-PCR tests, strictly enforce test-track-treat protocol, and speed up the pace of vaccination to cover all priority groups.
Tiger relocation? That didn’t exactly turn out to be, well, a roaring success in Satkosia. The immigrant Sundari found no prey base, and strayed right into an ecological debate.
It’s not often that this happens to an Odia film…but wait? Has it really happened? Nila Madhab Panda’s Kalira Atita (Yesterday’s Past) awaits a better tomorrow.
Double citizenship within India? Meet the twice-blessed people of Ganjeipadar, Patusineri and Phagunseneri. They should be part of Odisha’s Koraput district, but just voted in Andhra’s panchayat polls!
Salaries are getting docked for dodging the Covid-19 vaccine in Odisha! Rather, Cuttack. It has nearly 30,000 healthcare personnel but only 57% have taken the jab.
The office of the Engineer-in-Chief in Odisha had a strange order: all lady officials should leave the office premises by 5.30 pm on all working days. Is the move pro- or anti-women?
Odisha’s Adivasis are usually peaceable folks. But angered by official apathy to human-elephant conflict, they halt an MLA’s cavalcade and force her out to see their battered world.
You often see it on Twitter: identical words from a mass of handles, flowing as if from a factory. In Odisha, this rare planetary alignment was seen in print. Guess who the sun is…
The Maoists returned on Sunday in greater numbers but had to flee into the jungles for the second time in 12 hours in the face of the even greater number of tribals, writes Sandeep Sahu.
Odisha assembly passed a resolution thanking CM Naveen Patnaik for the successful hosting of the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup and bringing the next edition too. What does it mean for the state and it's leader, who is playing a different politics to enhance his image?
The growing proximity between the top bosses of the two erstwhile rivals --BJP and BJD -- has not only disillusioned the people who cast their votes in favour of the two parties; it has also left their local leaders looking rather foolish.
Naveen Patnaik’s decision to field Bed Prakash Agrawala from Patkura is laced with some deadly motive. Odisha chief minister’s ploy exposes his ruthless streak once again
With both major Opposition parties in disarray and the coming together of BJD discards proving to be a non-starter, the only thing that can upset the BJD applecart is dissidence within the party.
The Odisha CM extolled the virtues of forgiveness in a rare blog on Wednesday, but it took him more than 40 days to forgive Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for what many felt were offensive tweets against Odisha.