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Angul: Brown sugar worth over Rs 1 crore has been seized and two persons have been arrested in Odisha's Angul district, police said Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the Special Task Force of Odisha Police conducted a raid in Talcher Monday morning and seized 1.1...

Koraput: With day temperatures in Malkangiri and Nabarangpur districts of Odisha hovering between 39 and 42 degree Celsius, political parties are focusing more on evening meetings and small village gatherings while campaigning for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Malkangiri district under Nabarangpur Lok Sabha...

Keonjhar: Keonjhar district has a vast swathe of dense forest, which has become a source of livelihood for the forest dwellers as well as poor people living in surrounding villages. They depend on the forest for eight months a year to eke out a living....

Kendrapara: A sharp rise in potato price at the time of harvest of the crop has hit the consumers hard in the state, a report said Monday. The price of the essential tuber is increasing and has now touched Rs 28 per kg whereas it...

Balasore: Months after her son’s suicide, an Anganwadi worker allegedly killed herself by hanging at Hansipatna village under Atapur panchayat under Soro block of Balasore district, Monday. The deceased identified as Sabita Mohanty, 40, is suspected to have taken the extreme step after being depressed...

Bargarh/Barpali: Vigilance sleuths Monday arrested Balamukunda Pradhan, the headmaster of Kusanpuri High School under Barpali police limits in Bargarh district for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 14,000 from a functionary of one local women self-help group (WSHG) to process a file for...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Monday deployed seven teams of state disaster response force in vulnerable forests to combat wildfire. On the request of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, the Office of Special Relief Commissioner deployed Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams in Baliguda,...

Phulbani: The special task force (STF) of Odisha Police arrested a ganja peddler from Tikabali, a small town in Kandhamal district, the police said. The 25-year-old accused, who was absconding, was arrested Sunday during a raid conducted by STF with the help of Kandhamal district...

Bhubaneswar: Twelve members of different royal families in Odisha are contesting the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections seeking votes of commoners. Elections to the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha and 147 Assembly segments will be held simultaneously in the state from May 13 to...

Kendrapara: Officials have reported an increase in the population of mangrove pitta birds during the latest bird census at Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district. Forest officials Sunday released the mangrove pitta bird census report, which pegged their population at 218. This marks an...