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Balasore: Police Thursday recovered the body of a minor girl stuffed in a sack from a house near Samalpur village under the Industrial police limits in Balasore district. The girl had been staying in the area along with two other girls. Her native is reported...

Chhatrapur: Villagers from Kanamana gram panchayat presented a demand letter to the Ganjam Collector V Keerthi Vasan opposing the inclusion of some villages in the newly formed Chhatrapur municipality. Chhatrapur municipality includes erstwhile NAC wards of Chhatrapur in addition to the gram panchayats of the...

Bhubaneswar: Describing the Mahanadi water dispute as a "political" one, Odisha's Advocate General Pitambar Acharya Thursday said he was hopeful that it would be settled outside the court through negotiations. The dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over the sharing of the river's water has been...

Malkangiri: A 21-year-old nursing student allegedly died by su*cide in Odisha's Malkangiri district Thursday after her boyfriend broke up with her, police said. The deceased, Ankita Biswas, was a nursing student at a private college. She was a resident of MV-13 village, they said. Ankita's...

Berhampur: Three young men were killed as a truck ran over their motorcycle in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said Thursday. The incident happened near Mahanala in Patapur police station area when the trio were returning home from Sheragada to Digapahandi Wednesday evening, they said. The...

Bhubaneswar: Noted Odia music director Abhijit Majumdar has shown signs of steady recovery and has been shifted out of the intensive care unit (ICU) at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, a source said Thursday. Majumdar, who was admitted in a comatose state September 3 with multiple comorbidities, had...

Bhubaneswar: A man was sentenced to 20 years in jail by a special court in Bhubaneswar Thursday for raping his 8-year-old daughter repeatedly. Ad hoc Additional Sessions Judge of POCSO court, Saroj Kumar Sahoo, convicted the man after examining 13 witnesses and 77 documents. The...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday put the collectors of 18 districts on high alert after the IMD forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in the state when a possible depression crosses its southern coast September 27, officials said. The instructions to the districts were issued...

Gajapati: A container truck plunged into the Harabhangi dam and reservoir in Odisha’s Gajapati district, though the driver managed to escape unharmed, a source said Thursday. The incident occurred near Adapanka village under Adava police station limits, while the truck was travelling from Rayagada to...

Nayagarh: Tension erupted at a hospital in Odisha’s Nayagarh district Thursday after the death of a 4-month-old boy, whose family alleged negligence in treatment. The infant was identified as Om Prakash Dalei of Rautarapur village in Nayagarh district. The family members alleged that the child...