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Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to participate in a Triranga Yatra and hold a roadshow before attending an event marking the first anniversary of the BJP's maiden government in Odisha June 20, a senior minister said. Though Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's government...

Bhubaneswar: The authorities of the Jagannath temple in Puri have urged the ASI to complete repair work in the Ratna Bhandar (treasury) of the shrine in Puri during the coming Rath Yatra festival, when the deities will be in another temple for nine days. The...

New Delhi: Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak clinched a bronze medal in the vault final at the 12th Senior Women's Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea, Saturday. The 30-year-old, who had earlier claimed a bronze at the FIG World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, in...

Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu, Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik Saturday greeted the people of Odisha as the three-day Raja festival began across the state. The state welcomes the Raja festival every year as a mark...

Berhampur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday arrested a senior official of EPFO Regional Office in Berhampur while he was accepting a bribe, an official said. The accused official worked at the Regional Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) Office in Berhampur as a senior...

Bhubaneswar/Jajpur: The diarrhoea toll in Odisha's Jajpur district rose to five with one more person succumbing to the disease, an official said Saturday. The Jajpur district administration has cancelled Raja festival holidays for government officials as fresh cases were reported from three different places. "In...

Rourkela: A CRPF official was killed in a blast during an anti-Naxal operation at the Odisha-Jharkhand border Saturday morning, officials said. ASI Satyaban Kumar Singh (34) of 134th CRPF battalion, who hailed from Kushinagar in UP, was part of a team that was searching the...

Bolangir: The much-anticipated Lower Suktel Irrigation Project in Bolangir district was inaugurated with much fanfare in the run-up to the general elections last year. At the time, large-scale displacement occurred across 29 project-affected villages, with many residents being forced to relocate without adequate resettlement provisions....

Sonepur: Mukunda Rana, 60, a terracotta artist from Kuhibahal village in Binika block of Subarnapur district, has earned national recognition for his lifelong dedication to the ancient clay craft. Popularly known as the ‘Wizard of Clay’, Rana has trained thousands of artisans across Odisha and...

Digapahandi: A tuition teacher has been sent to jail in connection with the suicide of a minor girl studying Plus II first year at a junior college under Digapahandi block in Ganjam district. The accused, S Sanatan Reddy, was arrested Friday by Sub-Inspector Sofia Mishra...