The Odisha government on Monday ordered closure of schools from tomorrow till June 18 in view of the intense heat wave in the state.

Social activist from Odisha Prafulla Samanatra won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for the massive anti-Vedanta campaign that halted Vedanta’s mining operation at Niyamgiri hills in the state.

The results of annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) will be declared on April 26.

Two school children were killed and two others sustained critical injuries when a truck overturned and fell on them on NH-55 near Rairakhol in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Monday.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday said reiterated his demand for Special Category Status to the state at the meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

The endangered Olive Ridley turtle will be mascot for the 22nd Asian Athletics Championship, which will be played at Kalinga Stadium in July.

With an eye to the 2019 assembly polls in Odisha, the Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday began its two-day state executive meeting at Baripada here.

Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra on Saturday faced the ire of lawyers, who have been opposing the Law Commission report on Advocates (Amendment) Act, 1961.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said he would raise the Special Category Status issue before the Centre at NITI Ayog Governing Council meeting scheduled to begin on Sunday.

The Odisha Government on Saturday effected a major bureaucratic reshuffle. While Rural Development Principal Secretary Madhusudan Padhi was appointed as the new Transport Commissioner, OMFED Managing Director Chandra Sekhar Kumar has been assigned as the Principal Secretary of Revenue.