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Bhubaneswar: An Odisha Finance Service (OFS) officer has been arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000, Vigilance said Wednesday. The Vigilance sleuths arrested Sarita Barik, who was working as Assistant Commissioner of State Tax, Tuesday, and a case under the Prevention of...

Bhubaneswar: A day before the agrarian festival of Nuakhai, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday disbursed Rs 1,041 crore to the bank accounts of over 51 lakh farmers as the third instalment under the CM Kisan Yojana. Each beneficiary, mostly small and marginal farmers,...

Puri: A 31-year-old man from Kolkata was caught with spectacles fitted with hidden cameras inside the Jagannath temple in Odisha's Puri town Wednesday, police said. Photography or videography in the 12th-century shrine is banned. This was the fourth case of a person getting caught with...

Bhubaneswar: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is scheduled to inaugurate a national conference of chairpersons of various committees of Parliament and state legislatures on the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Bhubaneswar this month, an official release said Wednesday. Such a conference will...

Balasore: A 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped by several persons over the last six months after she was abducted by a man of her locality in Odisha's Balasore district, police said. The victim lodged a police complaint Tuesday, alleging that she was abducted and kept...

Chennai: Veteran India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin Wednesday announced his retirement from the Indian Premier League, bringing the curtains down on a 16-year-long association with the tournament within months of calling it quits from international cricket. Ashwin made the announcement through a social media post. "They...

New Delhi: Indian football is staring at an international ban with world governing body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation issuing a stern ultimatum to the embattled AIFF that it must adopt and ratify a new constitution by October 30 or risk suspension. In a...

Koraput: A 22-year-old YouTuber from Odisha's Berhampur city has been missing for five days after he was swept away by the strong currents of the Duduma waterfall in Koraput district while shooting reels, police said Wednesday. A search operation by a team of disaster management...

Bhubaneswar: In a unique display of devotion, miniature artist L. Ishwar Rao from Gopinathpur in Jatni has crafted what he claims is the smallest Ganesh idol this festive season. The sculpture, carved on a pencil tip, stands just 0.5 cm tall and took him nearly...

Keonjhar/Hatadihi: A petition has been filed in the Orissa High Court alleging irregularities in the request for proposal (RFP) tender process for the selection of a project management unit (PMU) under Keonjhar District Mineral Foundation (DMF) and in the approval and disbursal of salaries with...