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Mumbai: India Sunday announced their squads for the T20I series against South Africa and for the lone 5th Test against England. Senior pro Cheteshwar Pujara, who was dropped for India's last Test series against SriLanka has been picked by the All-India Senior Selection Committee in...

Bhawanipatna: The headmaster of a government-run upper primary school was arrested by police Sunday for allegedly causing sexual harassment to a number of girl inmates of its 100-bed tribal hostel in Gopinathpur village under Thuamul Rampur block of Kalahandi. The hostel is being run by...

Berhampur: A 35-year-old autorickshaw driver in Ganjam district has won accolades for returning a gold necklace worth around Rs 1.6 lakh to a female passenger who had accidentally left it in his vehicle a few days ago. The autorickshaw driver, Pankaj Behera, found the ornament...

Bhubaneswar: With the Centre slashing excise duty by Rs 8 per litre on petrol and Rs 6 per litre on diesel and the state reducing taxes by Rs 2.23 and Rs 1.36 a litre, the new fuel price from 6 AM of Sunday in Odisha...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday inaugurated 7 power projects in different districts developed at a cost of Rs 450 crore. The projects include high power grid sub-station in Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Keonjhar, Khurda and Sambalpur and a 220-KV transmission line from Balangir to Kesinga....

Puri: In order to escape the eyes of locals and media, a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey was stealthily carried out Saturday in the dead of night for Shrimandir Parikrama Prakalpa. Allegedly, the GPR survey was not previously conducted before the construction works around Jagannath...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha recorded 15 new Covid-19 cases, of which none is in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking tally in the state to 12,88,372. Active caseload in the state now stands at 110. Odisha reported zero new...

Bhubaneswar: Police Saturday arrested two alleged fraudsters on the charge of duping Rs 30 lakh from a student on the pretext of providing an MBBS seat in a medical college, an officer said. The Infocity police station here has registered a case after a girl...

Cuttack: Orissa High Court has directed a tehsildar to plant 50 trees as punishment for imposing a fine on an illiterate woman without hearing her case properly. The court of Justice Biswanath Rath recently asked the tehsildar of Kakatpur in Puri district to plant the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer SK Lohani has said that arrangements for live webcasting have been made in 50 cent of the polling booths in Brajarajnagar assembly segment, where by-election is scheduled to be held May 31. As many as 2,14,878 voters are eligible to...