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'My driver encouraged me': Odisha MLA among 5.8 lakh students appearing for Class 10 board exam

BJD lawmaker Angada Kanhar Kanhar wrote his second language paper at Rujangi High School in Pitabari village of Kandhamal district

Odisha rural polls: BJD wins 743 of 829 Zilla Parishad seats; BJP, Congress bite dust

BJD won the Odisha panchayat elections, securing 87.20 per cent of the Zilla Parishad zones by winning 743 of the 829 seats

BJD retains Pipili assembly constituency in Odisha as Rudra Pratap Maharathy wins by margin of 20,196 votes

The by-election was necessitated following the death of sitting BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy in October last year.

BJP, BJD engage in blame game after Odisha features among bottom five states of NITI Aayog's SDG Index

BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi and BJD Rajya Sabha member Amar Patnaik accused each other of misleading people over the development projects undertaken in the state

SIT begins investigation into kidnap, murder of minor girl in Odisha; Congress, BJP meet victim's parents

The girl's parents had named Babuli Nayak, who is a loyalist of the Odisha agriculture minister Arun Kumar Sahoo, as the main accused and lodged a complaint against his name

Assembly by-elections results: BJP wins 19 of 28 MP seats, sweeps Gujarat, UP; Congress wins Chattisgarh, Haryana

The BJP is set to sweep the bypolls with leads and wins in 40 of the 59 seats that voted on 3 November, leading to its party workers holding celebrations in various states

Odisha MLA attends funeral of BJD leader despite testing COVID-19 positive; FIR filed

The case was registered against Umakanta Samantray for violating COVID-19 guidelines during the funeral of senior BJD leader Pradeep Maharathy

BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy dies due to COVID-19; Naveen Patnaik says 65-year-old was party 'stalwart'

Maharathy, who tested positive on 14 Sept, was discharged after recovery but was admitted again after his health deteriorated. He was on ventilator support since Friday

Centre, in Parliament's Monsoon Session, says no data available on death of migrant workers during lockdown

Responding to a question, Union minister Santosh Gangwar said the Central government has taken numerous measures to provide migrant labourers with financial assistance, food packages and other benefits

Odisha terms COVID-19 'disaster', shuts educational institutions and cinema halls till 31 March; govt allots Rs 200 cr to combat coronavirus

All educational institutions in Odisha have been ordered closed on Friday till March 31 over COVID-19 threat, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said on Friday, and earmarked Rs 200 crore to combat coronavirus