Odisha
Capital: Bhubaneswar
Breaking in Odisha
Bomb threat emails hit Mumbai and Pune civic offices, and the searches find nothing
An email naming Mumbai's mayor office, a bank, a court, Amitabh Bachchan's Jalsa bungalow, Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the airport set off searches on Thursday morning. Pune Municipal Corporation received its own threat soon after. Nothing suspicious was found.
Arrogance of power: Rohit Pawar takes on Fadnavis as the NCP merger formula takes shape
Rohit Pawar accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of "arrogance" and of running a politics of blackmail over the NCP merger question. In the party, the formula under discussion gives Sharad Pawar the president post and Sunetra Pawar the working president post.
No eye on Gokul: Fadnavis says the amendment only unties a legal knot
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended amending the cooperative societies law, saying the government needed to end a statutory deadlock over the Gokul dairy chairmanship. Congress leader Satej Patil is going ahead with a November 9 protest, calling the move a trampling of the farmers' mandate.
Cancer bills fall from Monday: 137 drugs cut, some by 96%, ₹3,502 crore saved a year
Revised prices for 137 anti-cancer drugs take effect on Monday after the NPPA capped trade margins at 30% of the maximum retail price. Seventy-six companies have cut prices on 1,225 formulations, with 600 brands down more than half and the steepest cut at 96.45%. Estimated annual savings: ₹3,502.31 crore.
Ten thousand flagged land deals later, Telangana CID picks up four over the Dharani portal
Telangana's CID has searched the homes and offices of suspects in the alleged Dharani land records scandal and arrested at least four people, including a Bhu Bharati portal operator. The case turns on three acres in Kollur village, mutated in another man's name.
BREAKINGRs 81.5 crore in two days, and Netflix already has the papers: Suriya's Scene is on a run
Scene, the Tamil crime thriller with Suriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen, has grossed Rs 81.5 crore worldwide in two days. Reports say Netflix has bought the digital rights for Rs 88 crore, though no streaming date has been announced.
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Iron rod in a yellow bag: woman attacks magistrate, prosecutor and court constable in Odisha
A 31-year-old woman attacked three people with an iron rod inside the Jharigaon JMFC court premises in Odisha's Nabarangpur district. A judicial magistrate, a senior public prosecutor and a court ASI were injured. The accused is in judicial custody.
Rs 344 crore and two lives: cyclone Murasu leaves Andhra counting as rain continues
Cyclone Murasu has killed two people in Andhra Pradesh and caused preliminary damage of Rs 344 crore, with crops over 52,459 hectares hit, 12,230 people in relief camps and 35 trains cancelled.
BJP, BJD and Congress bury differences over Kotia as Andhra polls loom on November 5
Ruling and opposition parties in Odisha agreed at an all-party meeting in Koraput to jointly resist Andhra Pradesh's rural local body elections in the disputed Kotia villages on November 5. Prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS kick in from November 1, and the district administration has filed a contempt petition in the Supreme Court.
One day of rain, a year's average: a thousand villages under water and helicopters on the supply run
Cyclone Arnab has flooded more than 1,000 villages across Odisha's Ganjam and Gajapati districts, with about 50,000 people severely affected in Ganjam. The state has moved 59,028 people to safety and deployed 313 rescue teams. Around 300 metres of National Highway 326 has been washed away and 36 trains cancelled.
Seven dead, 2.24 lakh hectares of crop gone: Cyclone Arnab leaves Andhra counting
Cyclone Arnab crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast near Narsapur between 2 am and 8 am on Wednesday, with winds of 115-135 kmph. Seven people died. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced Rs 5 lakh for each bereaved family and asked the Centre to send a damage assessment team.
Wars now target economies, not just borders: PM flags ‘cyber terrorists’ at RBI's new Odisha campus
Inaugurating the RBI's ₹169-crore data centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said wars are no longer fought only with weapons and that a country can be weakened by attacking its economy. He said the banking system must be protected from cyber criminals and cyber terrorists, and that outdated systems cannot meet the threat.
Arnab is coming: 140 kmph winds, 5.7 lakh people to move, landfall on Wednesday
Cyclone Arnab intensified over the Bay of Bengal on Monday and is forecast to cross the Andhra Pradesh-Yanam coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam as a very severe cyclonic storm by the forenoon of October 28. Andhra Pradesh has identified 5.7 lakh vulnerable people and will begin evacuating from Monday evening; Odisha has shut schools in five districts.
Cyclone brewing in Bay of Bengal; Andhra-Odisha coast put on alert
A low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by October 26 and move towards the north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts around October 28, the IMD has forecast. Odisha has cancelled the leave of its officials.
RBI data centre and cyber training institute to open in Bhubaneswar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the RBI's new data centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute in Bhubaneswar on October 25. The facility is certified to the Uptime Institute Tier IV standard, the highest tier for data centre resilience.
A neighbour's ballot paper reopens a 60-year border fight
Andhra Pradesh's election notification for three villages of Kotia has reopened Odisha's oldest border dispute. Odisha's minister accused Naveen Patnaik of covering past failures; the BJD chief asked why the BJP government is silent.
Poll notification in three disputed villages reopens Odisha-Andhra border row
Andhra Pradesh's announcement of panchayat elections in three villages of the disputed Kotia region has revived a decades-old border row with Odisha. The dispute is pending before the Supreme Court.
Panchayat poll notice for disputed Kotia draws Odisha minister's eye, BJD demands action
Andhra Pradesh's panchayat election notification covering villages in the disputed Kotia region has triggered a fresh row with Odisha, prompting the Odisha government to say it will deploy officials to monitor the neighbouring state's activities. The opposition BJD demanded action to protect the interests of Kotia residents.
Disputed Kotia row flares as Odisha stations officials to watch Andhra
After Andhra Pradesh notified panchayat elections in the disputed Kotia region, the Odisha government decided to station one police and one revenue official there. Revenue Minister Suresh Pujari said legal options in the Supreme Court were being explored. The BJD accused the BJP of going soft on the border dispute.
Two officers, one disputed border: Odisha moves into Kotia as Andhra's poll calendar reaches the edge
After Andhra Pradesh announced panchayat elections touching the disputed Kotia villages, Odisha has decided to station police and revenue officials there. The BJD and the Congress have attacked the state government's response.
Odisha's mineral dues, Kotia and Mahanadi: BJD says BJP too weak to fight
The BJD has accused the BJP of compromising Odisha's mineral revenue and of going soft on the Kotia and Mahanadi disputes. Naveen Patnaik wrote to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi over Andhra Pradesh's panchayat poll notification in disputed Koraput villages.
Naveen questions silence on Andhra's Kotia poll notification
BJD president Naveen Patnaik has asked Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi why the State government is silent on Andhra Pradesh notifying panchayat elections in three villages of the disputed Kotia Gram Panchayat, asking whether political dependence on the TDP is behind the silence.
Patnaik asks if BJP's TDP ties are holding Odisha back on Kotia
BJD president and Leader of the Opposition Naveen Patnaik has written to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, questioning the state government's silence after Andhra Pradesh notified panchayat polls in disputed Kotia villages. He asked whether the BJP's dependence on NDA ally TDP explains the inaction.