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Tihidi: Unable to bear his daughter’s move to get married against his wish, a 51- year-old man allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a train on Bhadrak-Dhamra railway track near Kandapur village under Tihidi police station limits in Bhadrak district late Friday night,...

Baliapal/Hatadihi: Three persons including a woman died in lightning strikes during nor’wester rains at separate places in Balasore, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts Saturday. In the first incident, Binati, 40, wife of Amulya Kumar Prusty from Sahuchaka village of Kasafala panchayat under Singla police limits in...

Basudevpur: Tension prevailed in Basudevpur following the death of a 5-year-old boy who was run over by a pick-up van at Bandhamunda Chhak near Mandari bridge on Basudevpur-Dhamra road in Bhadrak district Saturday. The deceased child was identified as Saroj Mallick, son of Kanhu Mallick...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader VK Pandian Saturday challenged the BJP to declare its CM candidate for Odisha and claimed that the party would get less than 10 per cent votes if it names any of its current state leaders. Campaigning in the Sundagarh Lok Sabha...

Bhubaneswar: Asserting that the BJP would not be able to win Odisha in the next 10 years, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday claimed his BJD would return to power for the sixth consecutive time after the Assembly elections. Patnaik was reacting to PM Narendra Modi...

Bhubaneswar: Nandini Satpathy was way ahead of her times in not just introducing pro-people policies, but she was even a sophisticated cultural icon of her era, renowned journalist Pallavi Rebbapragada said at the launch of her biography on Odisha’s only chief minister here Saturday. The...

Bhubaneswar: Raising Odisha 'Ashmita' (pride) as a key poll issue in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday launched a veiled attack on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide Kartik Pandian alleging that the incumbent BJD government in the state is being run by a...

Kotia: Armed with two voter cards issued by two states, over 5,500 electors of the disputed Kotia region are eligible to exercise their franchise in both Odisha and Andhra Pradesh elections in the fourth phase May 13. Twenty-one of the 28 villages of the picturesque...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik are "two sides of the same coin", Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said Saturday, accusing the BJP and the BJD of being ‘in cahoots’ with each other. Modi is on a two-day poll...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of addressing three election rallies in Odisha Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the state will create a history in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. The PM, who is set to address election rallies in Kandhamal, Bolangir and Bargarh Lok...