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Ersama/Baripada/Rourkela/Nandapur: At least six people drowned in separate incidents across the state Sunday, police said. In Mayurbhanj district, two youths drowned while bathing in the Palpala River inside Similipal National Park. Police said seven friends from Baripada town had gone to the park when four...

Baripada/Bargarh/Keonjhar/Kendrapara: Four people were killed and several others critically injured in separate lightning strike incidents during thunderstorms Sunday, officials said. In Mayurbhanj district, a 26-year-old man died and another was injured after lightning struck while they were taking shelter under a tree during a Kalbaishakhi-induced...

Bhubaneswar: Amidst an outbreak of diarrhoea in some areas of Jajpur and Keonjhar districts, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday directed the health department to take urgent measures to prevent its spread to neighbouring districts. According to a statement from the Chief Minister's Office...

Puri: Odisha government will take stringent legal action, including arrests, against any non-servitor found climbing the chariots during this year's Rath Yatra in Puri, Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan said Sunday. He also asserted that use of mobile phones on the chariots will be strictly prohibited....

Rourkela: Odisha police Sunday arrested the prime accused and mastermind behind the loot of five tonne of explosives by Maoists from a vehicle near a store quarry in Sundargarh district May 27, an official said. The arrested accused has been identified as George Munda alias...

Bhadrak: A five-month pregnant woman died after being allegedly assaulted by her husband following a domestic altercation in Odisha's Bhadrak district, police said Sunday. The deceased, identified as Monalisa Jena, had been married to Sankarshan Jena for five years. The couple has a three-year-old daughter....

Baripada: Two youths drowned while taking a bath in Palpala River inside Similipal National Park in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Sunday, police said. According to the police, seven friends from Baripada town went to Similipal on the occasion of Raja festival. When four of them went...

Bhubaneswar: At least seven people have been injured after a passenger bus, in which they were travelling, overturned on the National Highway (NH) 16 in Odisha's Khurda district Sunday afternoon, police said. The bus was traveling from Bhubaneswar to Aska in Ganjam district with more than...

Jajpur: Two more persons died in the diarrhoea outbreak in Odisha's Jajpur district, with over 200 people still undergoing treatment, officials said Sunday. With this, seven people have died in the outbreak, which was first reported June 9, Additional District Medical Officer (ADMO) Prakash Chandra...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to experience widespread thunderstorm activity and heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next five days as favourable conditions push the southwest monsoon further into the state, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Sunday. The forecast, valid from June 15 to...