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Bhubaneswar: Ranjit Patra has been re-appointed as president of Odisha Pradesh Youth Congress, Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president Uday Bhanu Chib said in a statement Thursday. Along with Patra, the party has appointed Krushna Chandra Mohanty and Ganesh Kumar Saho as state working presidents and...

Dhenkanal: A man was injured in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Odisha's Dhenkanal district Thursday, police said. The injured person has been identified as Debasish Behera alias Handa of village Godisahi Ajatinagar under the Kamakhyanagar police station area. The encounter took place...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday extended its full cooperation and support to the Central government in its efforts concerning national security at the all-party meeting on the Pahalgam terror attack. BJD's floor leader in Rajya Sabha Sasmit Patra attended the all-party meeting. "BJD...

Berhampur: A team of doctors in government-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur, removed an eight-centimetre-long broken piece of knife from the lungs of a 24-year-old man, an official said Thursday. The broken knife piece was in the body of the man for the last...

Bengaluru: Star batter Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal helped themselves to breezy half-centuries as Royal Challengers Bengaluru posted a competitive 205 for five against Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League match in Bengaluru Thursday. On a pitch where stroke-making was not very easy, RCB...

Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik Thursday condoled the death of Dinesh Agarwal, a resident of Chhattisgarh but originally hailed from Odisha's Bolangir, who was killed in the Pahalgam terror attack. "It is painful to hear the news regarding the death of another Odia man from...

Puri: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday said the country will give a befitting reply to the Pahalgam terror attack. Majhi said this while addressing the state-level Panchayati Raj Day function at Puri. He paid homage to the Pahalgam terror attack victims and described...

Bhubaneswar: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has sought an action taken report from the authorities concerned into the death of a tribal man during a recent eviction drive in Odisha's Rourkela city, an official statement said. A 35-year-old tribal protester, identified as Ettua...

Bengaluru: Rajasthan Royals (RR) have brought in left-arm pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi as stand-in captain Riyan Parag won the toss and elected to bowl first against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru Thursday. While RR, in eighth place in the points...

Bhadrak: A 54-year-old woman patient died of suspected suffocation Thursday as the elevator in which she was being shifted to a ward in Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital here developed a technical snag and got stranded for some time, officials said. Hospital sources said that the...