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New Delhi/ Jharsuguda: President Droupadi Murmu Saturday said she is distressed to learn about the loss of lives in a boat accident in Odisha and offered her condolences to the bereaved families. The death toll in the boat capsize incident in the Mahanadi river in...

New Delhi: Union Education Minister and senior BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan Saturday met Agniveer aspirants in Odisha's Sambalpur from where he is contesting the Lok Sabha polls. Pradhan said he spent the morning with the aspirants enquiring about their preparations and motivated them. समर शेष...

Bhubaneswar: The toll in the boat capsize in Odisha's Jharsuguda district rose to seven with the recovery of five more bodies Saturday, a senior official said. Personnel of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force and fire services, who launched a search operation immediately after the...

Bolangir: Once the Lower Suktel Dam comes up, thousands of acres of farmland in this perennially drought-prone district will be irrigated. The drinking water woes of many towns and villages in the district will be a thing of the past. Economic development will blossom with...

Bhubaneswar: INTACH’s Odisha chapter has unveiled the Kerang Fabric project with an aim to revive the age-old heritage and ancient tradition of the Gadabas of Koraput. At an event held in Bhubaneswar to mark World Heritage Day, Thursday, Gadaba tribal women, dressed in Kerang sarees,...

Paikamal: Police arrested Friday Mahadeb Bariha for allegedly killing a 65-year old man by bludgeoning his head with a stone following an altercation Wednesday. The incident took place at Bhubaneswarpur village under this block in Bargarh district. The body of the deceased, identified as Purnachandra...

Boudh: Sleuths of the Vigilance department arrested Friday here Rabindra Nath Padhy, the senior clerk in the office of the block education officer (BEO) at Harbhanga in this district. He was caught red-handed while accepting Rs 20,000, the first installment of a total bribe amount...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Friday arrested a notorious narcotics smuggler and recovered a whooping three quintals of marijuana (ganja) which he was supposed to deliver to receivers in neighbouring Jharkhand. Interestingly, the police said Rahul Sethi, the alleged smuggler, was intercepted with the narcotics consignment...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha reeling under intense heatwave conditions over the last few days, the state has reported the season’s first sunstroke death, officials said Friday. Sixty-two-year-old Laxmikanta Sahu of Maheshpur in Balasore district died due to sunstroke April 15. This was the first sunstroke death...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD Friday moved Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), seeking action against BJP MP candidate from Bhubaneswar, Aparajita Sarangi, for alleged misuse of children in poll campaigns. “It has come to our notice that Sarangi has been using small children in BJP election...