A fire broke out at the DRDO's missile testing facility in Chandipur, Odisha. Reports say explosions were heard at the site. The reason for the fire is still not clear. The casualty has been reported.
Even as both UPA and NDA are struggling to manage its hostile allies, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has raked up the Third Front debate again. The Odisha CM has stated Third Front is a healthy option.
Newshour | The Odisha government scrapped discretionary quota but allottees are unaffected. Land meant for martyrs were allotted to bureaucrats and politicians and they are not willing to do away with it. Rural development minister Vikram is one of the benefic...
The channel exposes the massive scam on the discretionary quota allotment, which was abolished more than a year ago. Politicians and bureaucrats siphon off land meant for martyrs. There is blatant misuse of discretionary quota allotment in Odisha by the influe...
Despite having won a special status for Bihar, JD(U) head and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hasn't yet revealed whether he will leave the NDA to join the UPA in future. The UPA government conferred the special state status on Bihar, along with tweaking the...
With the 2014 general elections in mind, political parties are looking to forge new alliances. Conferring special status on Bihar and a few other backward states is being looked at as a political move for future alliances in the political arena.
The UPA government has reported decided to give Bihar 'special state' status, with an eye on 2014 Lok Sabha elections as it is looking at Nitish Kumar as a potential ally. According to sources, the Centre is also considering revision for the criteria for backw...
Home ministry is getting ready to confer Bihar with the status of a special state. If Bihar receives this status, it would be seen as the victory of the state's chief minister, Nitish Kumar. The chief minister conducted rallies both in the state as well as the...
The central government will soon confer the special state status on Bihar, says a report in an English newspaper. The status is being considered as a major victory for the state's Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar. According to some sources, Congress is eager to pa...
Former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty admits 'Raghav Rajan’ is indeed his son Bitti Mohanty, the convicted rapist who evaded the law for seven long years. During the initial stages of interrogation, BB Mohanty denied knowing anyone named 'Raghav Rajan'. However, by t...
Bitti Mohanty stayed in Kerala's Kannur district for over six years. He was traced last week after hiding away from the long arm of the law, which wanted him for escaping bail conditions in the rape case of a German girl in Rajasthan. In Kerala, he even did hi...
There is hardly any doubt in the fact that Bitti Mohanty couldn't have evaded the law for seven long years without the help of his father former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty. A team of investigators is set to arrive at Rajasthan to establish the identity of Bitti Moh...
Bitti Mohanty, son of Odisha's ex-DGP BB Mohanty, still claims to the Kerala and Rajasthan police that he is Raghav Rajan from Puttaparthi. Bitti had disappeared six years ago after he jumped parole in the conviction for raping a German woman in Alwar in Rajas...
Bitti Mohanty stayed incognito as Raghav Rajan for over six long years. In 2006, convicted for rape of a German girl at a hotel room, in Alwar, Rajasthan, Bitti has got bail to visit his ailing mother. Bitti jumped bail, and then disappeared into thin air. In ...
Over seven years back, the son of a DGP of Odisha, went missing after he jumped bail. Bitti Mohanty was arrested and convicted in 2006 for the rape of German woman at a hotel in Rajasthan. Out on bail, Bitti disappeared until he was traced to a location in Kan...
An explosion at the Posco project site in Jagatsinghpur in Odisha killed three anti-project activists and injured two. This comes after the government resumed the land acquisition process. The materials found from the site of the blast clearly show that crude ...
Mangarajpur was hardly recognizable after the devastating effect the 1999 Odisha cyclone had on it. However, Minakshi Swain, chose not to weep over split milk. Barely out of her teens, she joined hands with 12 other women, and started the Ma Santoshi self help...
Tension prevails at the Posco site as the Odisha police began an eviction drive. Although the police had cordoned off the area, a large number of protesters, including women and children, barged into the area. Members of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPS...
Despite the violent crackdown by the Odisha police, anti-Posco steel plant protesters have threatened to intensify the agitations. The government, it appears, is in a haste to acquire land for the project. The crackdown on protesters, meanwhile, has drawn flak...
The Odisha police took resort to lathicharge to disperse a group of people, including women and children, who were protesting against the land acquisition of Posco steel plant. Meanwhile the state government has claimed that some people with vested interests a...
The Minister of State for Home Affairs in Rajasthan, Virendra Beniwal, claims that the state government has done enough in the case of a minor who was raped in Jaipur. The Rajasthan government claims that it has done all that it can in the Bitti Mohanty case. ...
The channel tells the story of Bitti Mohanty who was convicted of rape in April 2006. Bitti, the son of then serving DGP of Odisha, then jumped parol and has been missing since then. Did Bitti's father bend laws to help his son?
The Odisha government is in the midst of another controversy after an RTI query showed that more than Rs 1 crore of taxpayers' money was spent by MLAs on 'study tours'. These study tours incidentally happened to the most favoured tourist and religious destinat...
At least five Maoists were killed during an encounter by the police in Odisha's Gajapati district today. These five armed Maoists are part of the Sabyasachi Panda group, a group which was primarily part of the CPI-Maoists party.
A day after the MoS statistics, Srikant Jena attacked Naveen Patnaik government to have let excessive mining in the state go unchecked, the BJD has hit back saying the Centre itself has told all governments that excessive mining doesn't amount to illegal minin...
Newshour | BJP leader Pinaki Mishra accuses Srikanth Jena of being frustrated at not being given the right portfolio. Mishra says Jena is attacking Patnaik because he has nothing to do. The two leaders come face-to-face with each other and battle their differe...
Congress leader Renuka Chaudhary says that Srikant Jena is a local leader and if he has raised an issue in the bigger national interest, then it will be looked into. Jena had earlier demanded that Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik resign as he had caused a loss of Rs 4...
BJD MP Pinaki Mishra says that Union Minister Srikanth Jena's accusations against Patnaik are baseless and laughable. He also strongly condemned the comments. Jena had earlier demanded that Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik resign as he had caused a loss of Rs 4 lakh c...
Reacting to the allegations made against Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik by Central Minister Srikant Kumar Jena, BJD says that it is merely a desperate effort by Jena to stay in the limelight. BJD claims that Jena is frustrated because he has not received...
Central Minister Srikant Kumar Jena demands that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik resign as he had allegedly caused a loss of Rs 4 lakh crore to the state exchequer. Jena accuses Patnaik of being involved in a multi-crore mining scam in the State.
Central Minister Srikant Kumar Jena demands that Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik resign as he had caused a loss of Rs 4 lakh crore to the State exchequer. Jena accused Patnaik of being involved in a multi-crore mining scam in the State.
Vedanta Resources chairman Anil Agarwal met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday to ask the Odisha government for supply of bauxite to the Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Kalahandi district. Agarwal said that if operations in Odisha are hit due to th...
BJD MP Jay Panda has said that BJD's decision to stay away from the Bharat bandh does not suggest that the party is planning to extend support to the UPA government. He has remarked that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has made it clear that JDU is stayin...
Evan as the government is making every effort to shake off the economic paralysis with big ticket reforms like the FDI in retail and Aviation, states, especially the non-Congress states vehemently oppose to implement them. States like Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Madh...
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has demanded an immediate rollback of the diesel price as he has said that this price hike will also affect the prices of other products and transport coast. The Left too has come out strongly against the UPA government sa...
Reacting to Centre's allegations on coal block allocations, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said that the Centre does not allocate coal blocks solely based on the recommendations by the state governments. Further on he has said that there are a number...
Chief Minister Narendra Modi continues his month-long campaign and will be in south Gujarat to rally support. South Gujarat is the stronghold of his rival Keshubhai Patel.
The defiant Congress in-charge in Odisha, Jagdish Tytler, has dared the Odisha Government to arrest him. The police have filed charges against Tytler for inciting the violence on Sept 6.
A 15-year-old boy in Odisha has been tortured and tonsured by the villagers for allegedly stealing Rs.30. The parents of the boy were forced to watch while their son was being humiliated. The boy was tied to a tree and assaulted after his cloths were torn off.
Jagdish Tytler has denied inciting the mob that led to the Odisha violence. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari has said he cannot comment on Tytler's role in instigating the violence until he goes through a copy of the speech Tytler delivered.
The Congress activists who were attempting to gherao the BJP headquarters in the state have been lathicharged by the police. One person has been reportedly injured in the violence. The state-wide bandh is called by the Congress to protest against the Naveen Pa...
Blaming the Naveen Patnaik led government for the crack down on Congress protesters, the party has called for a state-wide bandh. Ahead of the bandh, security has been beefed up in the state. Meanwhile an FIR has been lodged against Congress leader Jagdish Tyt...
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who is booked for criminal conspiracy in connection with the clash between Congress activists and policemen outside the Odisha Assembly, has denied any links to the violence and alleged political conspiracy against him. He has a...
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who is booked for criminal conspiracy in connection with the clash between Congress activists and policemen outside the Odisha Assembly, has denied any links to the violence and alleged political conspiracy against him. Odisha P...
Pramila Padhi, the cop who was beaten during the Congress protest in Bhubaneshwar, blames Odisha's Congress chief Jagdish Tytler for instigating the mob. She recalls how she was beaten. OPCC President Niranjan Patnaik denies any wrongdoing and blames the polic...
Odisha DGP Prakash Mishra confirms that the Congress in-charge in Odisha, Jagdish Tytler, is booked for making inflammatory comments and for the violence in Odisha on Thursday. The Congress workers, who were staging a protest in Bhubaneshwar, beat up a lady co...
The Odisha police have filed a case against Jagdish Tytler, who is the Congress in-charge in Odisha, and the PCC President Niranjan Patnaik for the violence on Thurday in which Congress workers beat up a 39-year-old lady constable. The Congress workers' prote...
The police arrest 34 people in the Odisha violence. The police union demands the arrest of the State's Congress Committee President Jagdish Tytler. Congress workers held a massive protest outside the Odisha Assembly. A lady constable was beaten up by a few pro...
Congress reacts but does not apologise for the Congress workers' who beat up a woman constable during the protest outside Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneshwar. Jagdish Tytler claims they were provoked while Salman Khurshid and Krishna Tirath agree that the incident...
The minutes of a meeting held at the PMO on Jul 25, 2005 states that the Prime Minister in his capacity as the Minister of Coal had approved the allocation of coal through the Screening Committee. It was decided that amending the Coal Act to introduce competit...
The police in Odisha are threatening to stop working after a woman constable was beaten up by Congress workers during a massive protest outside the Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneshwar. Headlines Today speaks to Odisha's DCP Prakash Mishra and and BJD's MP Pinaki M...
A massive controversy has broken over the Coalgate issue, as big names continue to crop up in connection with the nation's biggest scam thus far. This time its Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting S Jagathrakshak who has come under major fire. Fr...
Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, S Jagathrakshak, has come under fire in the massive coal allocation scam. Fresh documents reveal that the DMK Minister's company was accorded a coal block in Odisha. His affidavit during the elections a...
The Congress is turning the Coalgate heat back on the Opposition. While the BJP continues to stall the Parliament for the third consecutive week, the Congress is taking the protest to the opposition ruled states. Hundreds of Congress workers attempted to ghera...
The incident began with Congress workers attempting to gherao the Odisha Assembly, protesting against Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. A minor riot broke out in Bhubaneshwar, after the Odisha Police lathicharged the Congress workers in an attempt to restrain th...
Thousands of Congress workers have descended outside the Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneshwar. This is part of Congress' response to BJP which has accused the Congress of corruption and is not allowing the Parliament to function. The Congress is taking action at th...
Police in Bhubaneshwar are lobbing teargas shells and opening water cannons on the 30000-odd Congress workers who are protesting the corruption prevalent in the BJP-led state government. Reports state that the Speaker did not allow a debate on a host of issue...
Congress workers are staging a strong protest outside the Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneshwar. The 30000-strong crowd is growing unruly and over 30 platoons of police are deployed to contain it. This is part of Congress' strategy to prove that even BJP-led state g...
A minor riot breaks out in Bhubaneshwar, after the Odisha Police lathicharge the Congress workers who were attempting to gherao the Odisha Assembly. Absolute chaos ensued outside the Odisha Vidhana Sabha as the Congress workers retaliated in large numbers, out...
Chairman Hamid Ansari and members at the Rajya Sabha condoled the death of former member Bira Kesri Deo. He represented Odisha for two terms. He had set up the Government Autonomous College in Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi Cup for cricket and the Sura Tarangini foot...
A cyclonic depression over coastal Odisha has the promise of providing rainfall over north coastal Andhra Pradesh, a big relief to the farming community of the area.
With the political crisis intensifying over the 'Coalgate' allegations, the embattled government has launched an all out counter-offensive against the Opposition. The government has released four letters written by the states of Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Odisha ...
Centrestage | A secret video shot by the Maoists exposes the murderous nature of these terrorists. From strategic meetings to inducting kids into the tribe force, everything is well-planned and executed flawlessly.
News Night | A video of remorseless terror attacks planned by the Maoists comes to light. For the first time, the Maoists are seen planning strategic attacks on Government forces and inducting young blood into the hate group. Is the soft approach to these terr...
The channel gains exclusive access to a secret video shot by the Maoists that exposes the murderous nature of these terrorists. From strategic meetings to inducting kids into the tribe force, everything is well-planned and executed flawlessly.
Driving sustainable business through green economy is the theme at the 14th World Congress on Environment Management, hosted by the Institute of Directors and with an inaugural speech by the Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit. The Golden Peacock Award for...
Shocking behaviour was on display in Sonepur in Odisha when a leopard strayed into the town. Crude methods were used to capture the injured animal and it was taken to the District Magistrate's office in place of the Nandankanan Zoo. Not just that, all Wildlife...
In an attempt to woo SP just ahead of the Presidential elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is all set to announce a large bailout package for the state of Uttar Pradesh. He has already called for a meeting on July 11 to discuss CM Akhilesh Yadav's demand ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's proposed bailout package for Uttar Pradesh draws severe criticism from States like Odisha and Bihar. Many parties have accused Manmohan of favoritism and disregarding the federal structure of the country.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has alleged that UPA's Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee has offered financial packages to states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal to elicit support for his Presidential candidature. Patnaik has claimed that ...
NDA's Presidential candidate PA Sangma has filed his nomination for the Presidential elections. After filing the nomination he thanked Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, BJP pre...
NDA's Presidential candidate PA Sangma files his nomination for the Presidential polls in the presence of his supporters including Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, BJP preside...
The Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri faces threat of attack from the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Odisha. The alert came from an Assam DGP. Devotees have been asked to be wary of suspicious objects and people.
With the NDA yet to clear its stance on the Presidential nominee, the suspense around PS Sangma's candidature persists. Even as his party, the NCP, believes that the tribal leader will eventually heed to the dictates of the party, he has given clear indication...
After cutting short his trip to London, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik invites the 'rebel' MLAs for a meeting at his residence in his attempt to crack the whip on the brewing rift within the BJD.
Two days after facing signs of rebellion within his party, BJD supremo and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik cut shorts his trip to London and returns to India to take stock of the political situation in the state and get his party in order.
Less than a day after convening a suspicious meeting and spurring rumours of a rift within the ruling BJD party in Odisha, BJD MP Pyari Mohapatra rubbishes reports of a rebellion against Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik.
While Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has been travelling abroad, over 20 BJD MLAs meet at senior party leader Pyari Mohapatra's residence at Bhuvaneshwar, sparking rumours of a revolt.
While Naveen Patnaik is on his first visit abroad after he turns Chief Minister, 20 MPs in Odisha get together to plan course of action against the CM.
While Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has been travelling abroad, over 20 BJD MLAs meet at senior party leader Pyari Mohapatra's residence at Bhuvaneshwar, sparking rumours of a revolt.