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The strike and agitations in Seemandhra region against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, have taken a heavy toll on Odisha. As the trucks carrying vegetables, fish and eggs have stopped coming to the state, the prices have gone up…

Just a few days before the Dussehra Holidays, the Odisha Government has announced a 10% hike in the Dearness Allowances (DA) for its employees. The DA hike will benefit the existing employees as well as the pensioners. With this 10%…

Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) have been jointed awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013 for "the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic…

The Supreme Court has allowed N Srinivasan to take charge as the BCCI President, but formed a fresh probe panel to investigate into the IPL 6 spot-fixing allegations. The three-member probe panel will be headed by Mukul Mudgal, former…

Senior Congress leader and former MP Soumya Ranjan Patnaik was recently expelled from the party for ‘anti-party activities.’  Speculation was on the rife that the Congress top brass was contemplating disciplinary action against some senior…

The Supreme Court has given the much-needed relief to former Youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma by commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment in the infamous Naina Sahni tandoor murder case. Sushil Sharma had challenged his…

The young social activist from Delhi, Linkan Subudhi, has been chosen for the State Bravery Award (Biju Patnaik Bravery Award) for her audacity and courage in fighting the social evils. The decision was taken by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen…

The much-awaited 12 mtpa steel plant project of POSCO in Jagatsinghpur district, will kick off next year. South Korean President Park Geun Hye will visit Odisha in January to lay foundation of the project, it is believed. South Korea's…

The Telagana stalemate continues unabated. At least 13 districts in Seemandhra region have plunged into darkness for the third consecutive day, as the employees of power corporations have gone on an indefinite strike, protesting against the…

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will be shared between three Scientists. Americans James E. Rothman and Randy W. Schekman, and German Thomas C. Sudhof were awarded the prize for their discoveries of how the body's cells…