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Bhubaneswar: The Regional Centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorms and rain across Odisha over the next five days, with an orange warning issued for eight districts Thursday. According to weather department, intense daytime heat is likely to be followed by thunderstorms and...

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police has arrested another person from Bhubaneswar for his alleged involvement in a bank loan fraud case worth Rs 6.88 crore, officials said. Earlier, four accused were apprehended in connection with the case, and they are in...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched environment-friendly “Cool Bus Stops” fitted with reusable vetiver cooling screens at CRUT Bus Queue Shelters (BQS) across the city to provide relief to commuters during summer. The initiative, launched under the Bhubaneswar Heat Prevention Action Plan, uses...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has decided to add two service lanes on both sides of the four-lane Bhubaneswar-Puri stretch of National Highway-316 to ensure smooth traffic movement to the coastal town. In a meeting, Odisha Works Department Secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh Wednesday emphasised the importance of...

Deogarh: Enraged villagers tied an electricity department employee to an electric pole in Dudhianali village under Reamal police limits in Deogarh district. According to reports, the area had been without power for the last four days, leaving villagers furious. When the employee arrived to carry...

Bhubaneswar: A man accused in the lynching of GRP constable Soumya Ranjan Swain was held Thursday, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 17, police said. Swain was allegedly tied to a pole and beaten to death by a mob in Bhingarpur-Kaja...

Jharsuguda: The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 on the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Jharsuguda, for failing to submit a reply and repeatedly ignoring the tribunal’s directions in a case related to alleged illegal occupation...

Nandapur/Padua: Residents of Ghatiguda village under Khinbar panchayat in Nandapur block of Koraput district have alleged that authorities from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh are carrying out plantation of shade trees for coffee cultivation on an Odisha hill after claiming it as their own territory. Villagers further...

Balasore: A dispute between two brothers over their mother’s funeral rites allegedly left the elderly woman’s body unattended to for nearly 10 hours in Balasore district before police personnel stepped in to perform the rites. The incident occurred at Lokanathpur under Basta police limits Tuesday...

Khurda: A man from Khurda district was critically injured after being attacked by an elephant while collecting mangoes from his orchard Tuesday morning, officials and locals said. The victim, Dasarathi Jena of Malipada village under Jankia police limits, sustained severe injuries, including fractures to his...