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Bargarh: Young mountaineer Ashirbad Mahapatra alias Anup from Kulita Tukura village of Attabira block in Bargarh district has brought pride to Odisha and India by successfully scaling Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895m), the highest peak in Africa. On reaching the summit, he unfurled the Tricolour along with...

Bolangir: The Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police has reopened an investigation into the 2023 fake certificate scam and arrested a man from Kalahandi district, officials said Thursday. The accused, identified as Malaya Kumar Bhoi, 37, of Kundabandh village under Kesinga police limits in Kalahandi...

Berhampur: A commandant rank officer of Odisha’s elite Special Operation Group (SOG) was injured in an exchange of fire between security personnel and Maoists in a forest in Kandhamal district Thursday, police said. The gun battle took place at Indragarh jungle under Raikia police station...

Bhubaneswar: Amidst a statewide outrage among farmers over scarcity of fertilisers during the ongoing kharif season, Odisha Food and Supplies Minister K C Patra Thursday admitted to "black marketing" of urea in different parts of the state. "It is a fact that black marketing of...

Bhubaneswar: Gold reserves of around 1,996 kg have been discovered in Deogarh and Keonjhar districts of Odisha, state minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena told the Assembly Thursday. Gold deposits of nearly 1,685 kg were detected in the Adash area of Deogarh and 311.07 kg in Gopur...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police has arrested two more persons for the murder of a 25-year-old traffic police constable in Bhubaneswar, an officer said. The deceased, Subhamitra Sahoo, a native of Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district and posted in Bhubaneswar, disappeared after leaving home for duty September 6....

Bhubaneswar: Veteran leftist leader Prakash Karat Thursday said the democracy and Constitution in India could be better protected and strengthened with unity among secular forces. Karat, a former general secretary of the CPI (M), said this while addressing the memorial lecture titled “Sitaram Yechury: In...

Bhadrak: A search team Thursday recovered the decomposed body of a nine-year-old girl who went missing five days ago from a village in Odisha's Bhadrak district, police said. The body was recovered near a canal at Adia village under Basudevpur Marine police station limits, around...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government spent a total of Rs 380.95 crore on advertisement during the last three financial years, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said Thursday. While replying to a question by Congress MLA Sofia Firdous in the assembly, Majhi said an expenditure of Rs...

Bhubaneswar: In an interesting development in the Odisha Assembly, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Thursday urged the Speaker to ensure the return of certain items allegedly stolen from them by anti-social elements during a dharna inside the House in March. In that month, Congress...