Orissa home secretary Bipin Saxena, state women commission chairperson Lopamudra Buxipatra, BJP Rajya Sabha member Dharmendra Pradhan, BJD MP Renubala Pradhan and former Union railway minister K.C. Lenka were among several eminent persons who on Monday met brutally attacked Oriya software engineer and social activist Linkan Subudhi at Kailash Hospital. Noida, and wished her early recovery.

The Congress in Orissa has once again met the same fate: a crushing defeat in the hands of the ruling BJD. The signs of revival that was seen last year in its “Parivartan” rally at Mastercanteen Square here, seems to be existing no longer, if the results of the municipal elections are any indication.

The Orissa steel and mines department has sought information from the energy department on whether two state-owned public sector units — Orissa Power Generation Corporation and Orissa Hydro Power Corp

The ruling BJD, headed by chief minister Naveen Patnaik, has registered a thumping victory in the municipal polls held in Orissa on Thursday. Of the 66 urban local bodies, the BJD got majority at 44 places whereas the Congress is set to from councils in 15 urban local bodies (ULBs).

At least 174 engineering colleges from across the country are going to participate in “Virtual SUPRA SAEINDIA 2013”, an event which displays the conceptual and design skills to develop a Formula One m

Water Initiative Orissa (WIO), a leading environment body working for conservation of natural waterbodies, on Tuesday gave a call to vote for candidates who care for rivers and waterbodies in the coming urban local body elections.

A day after 14 Maoists were killed by the Orissa police near Padia in Malkangiri district, a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and personnel from special investigation wings of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh on Sunday arrived in the state to probe into the alleged links of the slain rebels in the May 25 Darbha Ghati attack and many other ambushes on security personnel.

“No reports of any injury from the side of the rebels are yet available. However, there was no casualty from our side as the assault plan was quite meticulously executed,” Orissa director-general of police Prakash Mishra said, after at least 14 Maoists were killed in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Orissa’s Malkangiri district late on Friday night, the police said on Saturday.

The Orissa police on Saturday arrested one Diptiranjan Patnaik, the accused involved in the murder of Bachhansudha Patnaik, wife of a leading businessman. Diptiranjan, who worked as the security guard at the house of the victim, killed the woman on Wednesday when her husband Manu Patnaik was away at his auto-showroom at Hanspal on the outskirts of the city.

At least 14 Maoists, including a woman, were killed in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Saliakota forest near Padia in Orissa’s Malkangiri district, nearly 750 km from here, late on Friday night, the police said on Saturday.