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Nabarangpur: Two children in Odisha's Nabarangpur district have been found to be infected with Rubella virus, a health official said Wednesday. The cases have been detected in Nandahandi and Tentulikhunti blocks of the tribal-dominated district, said Malaya Tripathy, chief district medical officer in-charge, Nabarangpur. Five...

Bhawanipatna: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday claimed that poverty would be completely eradicated from India in the next 10-15 years and this is 'Modi ki guarantee'. Singh said this while addressing the BJP's 'Vijay Sankalp' rally at Bhawanipatna in the district headquarters town of Kalahandi....

Bhubaneswar: BJD leader and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide Kartik Pandian Wednesday alleged that the opposition BJP is not fighting elections in Odisha to win polls but to increase its seat number with an intention to break the Biju Janata Dal after elections. This...

Bhubaneswar: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will collaborate with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar for artificial intelligence (AI) driven surveillance and other projects, officials said. A meeting was held between DRDO and IIT Bhubaneswar officials here Tuesday. Binay Das, director general (DG)...

Jajpur: Nagada villages in forested areas under Chingudipal panchayat in this district shot into the limelight in 2016 after 19 children died due to malnutrition. Since then approximately eight years have elapsed, but the woes continue for the inhabitants of these villages including children. Sources...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has restricted the use of drone during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other VVIPs in the state and declared as “no drone zone and no flying zone” the venue of the function addressed by the VVIPs. The decision...

Berhampur: Bureaucrat-turned-BJD leader Kartik Pandian Tuesday said the people of Odisha would not like a chief minister who will be remote-controlled by Delhi. The comment of Pandian, a close aide of Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik, came a day after Prime Minister Narendra...

Bhubaneswar: A team of doctors of AIIMS Bhubaneswar successfully conducted a rare scalp tumour operation on a 51-year-old man from neighbouring West Bengal, officials said Tuesday. The executive director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Ashutosh Biswas, said the patient had gone to several medical colleges and hospitals...

Bhadrak: The Odisha Police has arrested three persons for allegedly cheating in the NEET-UG examination held May 5, police said. They were "caught cheating" in the examination held at a private institution near Gelpur village in the district, a police officer said. PTI  

Baripada: A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Tuesday sentenced three persons to life imprisonment for murdering a 17-year-old boy in 2021. Mayurbhanj District Additional Sessions Judge Satyanarayan Patra convicted the three accused – Sovakar Mohanto (53), Jatrindranath Mohanto (43) and Kamal Lochan Mohanto (45) –...