The Odisha Police on Saturday took a 14-year-old boy into custody in Kendrapara, after he threatened his school headmaster inside the classroom by allegedly brandishing a country-made revolver.

At least 98 students fell ill after consuming food contaminated with a lizard in a school in Odisha's Koraput district on Saturday.

An Odisha Congress leader has written to Sonia Gandhi asking for the party to undergo "open-heart surgery (and) deep structural and ideological renewal" and warned of a "century-old legacy slipping away..."

A massive fire erupted at a bar in Bhubaneswar this morning. Thick plumes of smoke were seen on the top floor of the building that houses the bar, in horrifying visuals from the Satya Vihar area in Odisha's capital this morning.

Two assistant professors at a university in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati have been arrested after a student accused them of sexual assault, harassment, and blackmail.

The Odisha Assembly on Tuesday increased the monthly salary of its members more than three times -- from Rs 1.11 lakh to Rs 3.45 lakh, one of the highest in the country.

An undergraduate female student suffered about 90 per cent burn injuries after allegedly attemptingself-immolation in Odishas Sundergarh district, police said on Saturday.

A guest faculty of Odisha government-run Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Bhubaneswar was arrested on Thursday for allegedly sexually harassing a girl student, police said.

An elderly woman suffered severe burn injuries after she was allegedly assaulted and set on fire by her son in Odisha's Bhadrak district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place at Galaganda village within Tihidi police limits.

Odisha Class 12 Exam Dates 2026: Project evaluation and viva voce for Commerce stream students will be carried out by school teachers in groups of 24 students.

A rare pygmy killer whale was found dead on the coast of Odisha's Bhadrak district, officials said on Sunday.

According to police sources, bike-borne assailants hurled the bombs at the school gate, which usually sees heavy student movement in the morning.

Salaries of 91 senior officers of Odisha's Cuttack district, including that of the SP (Rural), were withheld for allegedly failing to resolve public grievances lodged with the CM's Grievance Cell (CMGC), according to official documents.

Videos that have surfaced show a ladder placed on the back of a tractor parked below the building.

After accusing an American citizen who adopted her of physical and mental torture, a woman on Tuesday claimed that she had made false allegations against her US mother simply to return to Odisha.

A natural compound found in long pepper can be an effective and cost-efficient agent against colon cancer cells, said researchers at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela on Tuesday.

A minor girl was allegedly kidnapped and later gang-raped by her friend and his four associates while she was on her way to college in Odisha, officials said.

The driver of a bus of the Odisha State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC) died on Thursday after suffering a heart attack while driving on the Koraput-Sunabeda stretch, police said.

A four-year-old boy died after allegedly swallowing a miniature toy from a chips packet in Odisha's Kandhamal district, police said Wednesday.

A doctor died of cardiac arrest while on duty at Nilgiri sub-divisional government hospital in Odisha, police said.

BSE Odisha Special OTET 2025 Results: Qualified candidates can download their digital certificates from the board's website until January 15, 2026 (midnight) after paying the required fee.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the people for voting the BJP to power in Jammu and Kashmir's Nagrota and Odisha's Nuapada.

BJP candidate Jay Dholakia won the Nuapada assembly bypoll in Odisha by 83,748 votes on Friday, election officials said.

The result of the Assembly by-elections 2025 gave a mixed outcome, with both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress winning two seats each.