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Berhampur: Security surveillance in Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border areas has been intensified by the police ahead of the twin elections for the Lok Sabha and the Assembly in the state, a senior officer said, Sunday. Joint checkings by the police of the two states have been...

Sambalpur: Police here arrested two persons in connection with separate murder cases in Sambalpur district, informed Sambalpur Sadar SDPO Tophan Bag, Sunday. The SDPO said that locals had discovered the body of a youth, later identified as Raja Bishi, 21, lying near Sasan canal at...

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday announced its candidate for the Jeypore Assembly seat in Odisha. The party fielded Goutam Samantray from the Jeypore assembly seat in Koraput district, which goes to polls May 13. Samantray, a businessman by profession, had also contested in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha continued to reel under intense heatwave conditions with the maximum temperature of 44.6 degrees Celsius recorded at Baripada town in Mayurbhanj Sunday. According to a bulletin of IMD's Bhubaneswar centre, nine places in the state recorded a maximum temperature of 43 deg C...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD Sunday moved the Election Commission, seeking action against BJP MLA candidate Jayanarayan Mishra, for alleged misuse of children at a poll rally of the saffron party in Odisha's Sambalpur. A delegation of the BJD submitted a petition to the Chief Electoral Officer...

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to blow the poll bugle in Odisha by addressing a public gathering at Sonepur of Subarnapur district in Western Odisha April 25. Speaking to media persons here on Sunday, Golak Mohapatra, Odisha BJP Vice President, said that...

Baripada: The Odisha government has engaged disaster rapid action force personnel to douse the ongoing forest fires that broke out inside the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district, officials said Sunday. Fires were noticed around 31 spots in the STR Sunday, and the officials...

Bhubaneswar: Former Indian hockey captain Prabodh Tirkey, who resigned from the Congress after being dropped as a candidate, Sunday said the party betrayed him. Speaking to PTI, he said the Congress insulted him by withdrawing his candidature without informing him of the reason behind it....

Jharsuguda: The Odisha Police arrested two persons in connection with the Mahanadi river boat capsize in Jharsuguda district in which eight people died, an official said. Police registered a suo moto case and arrested the duo after an investigation, he said. “We have arrested two...

Bhubaneswar: In view of likely heatwave conditions in Odisha, the state government Sunday announced summer vacation for all the government, private and government-aided schools from April 25 this year. In a notification, the I&PR department informed that for the next three days i.e. from April...