Odisha

As per schedule, the puja rituals will finally culminate on 17th January when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will walk through the Jagannath Puri temple corridor in the afternoon and officially declare it open for devotees.

10 members of the Bajrang Dal were seriously wounded after a physical spat with cattle smugglers in Balasore on 28th December.

Human activity has shifted the odds against the survival of these ancient mariners during the past 200 years. Sea turtles are killed for their meat, eggs, skin, and shells; they are also overfished and subject to poaching. The DRDO has decided to nominate a nodal officer for better coordination with the forest department for the safety of the Olive Ridleys.

Kashmiri fraudster arrested from Odisha had reportedly married six to seven girls under false pretences, sparking suspicions of 'love jihad'.

The Shri Mandir Parikrama Project in Puri cost Rs 943 crore. The foundation stone of the project was laid in November 2021 and it will be inaugurated in January 2024.

Sayed Ishaan Bukhari, the Kashmiri fraudster, was impersonating a Neuro Specialist Doctor, an Army Doctor, an officer in PMO, as per Odisha STF.

The Odisha HC issued an order in a petition related to a 2016 Puri case in which a four-year-old child was mauled by a pack of stray dogs.

"Jharkhand Congress MP is only the owner of the company. BJD govt was managing it in Odisha. What was the Vigilance, Crime Branch, Excise, EOW doing when the company was amassing such wealth, and how the state govt had no information about it? This liquor business is the source of money for BJD during elections", the BJP has asked.

60 kg gold along with 454 crores of cash found in I-T raids on companies and premises linked to Dhiraj Sahu, says a report in Kanak News.

Two separate cases of beheading sent shockwaves across Uttar Pradesh and Odisha on Saturday (9th December).