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Phulbani: The scourge of ragging continues unabated, despite being outlawed and having severe consequences, even as a group of six to seven students at Dinarsingh Memorial Government Higher Secondary School, Boida under Phulbani block of Kandhamal district brutally assaulted a Class-IX student, accusing him of...

Sunabeda: Under Bharatmala project, the Union government is constructing a highway from Raipur to Visakhapatnam at a cost of about Rs 16,000 crore. The project includes the construction of a six-lane road spanning nearly 465 km. Of this, 124 km of road has been built...

Bhanjanagar: Police Tuesday morning arrested a poacher and seized a country-made gun and two deer horns from his possession in Tarsingh area of Ganjam district. The accused has been identified as Sania Mallik of Budurupali village. Bhanjanagar SDPO Deepak Mishra disclosed the arrest at a...

Berhampur: Doctors at Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati (MKCG) Medical College and Hospital successfully performed a rare surgery, removing a 22-cm tooth stick lodged in an elderly woman’s food pipe. She is now reported to be stable. According to sources, 70-year-old Kamaraju Nayak of Natanga village...

Chhatrapur: Amidst the ongoing outcry over shortage and black-marketing of fertilisers, Ganjam Collector V Keerthi Vasan assessed the availability and supply of fertilisers in the district Tuesday. At a review meeting here, the Collector ordered all the private retailers not to deviate from the government-approved...

By Narendra Raut, OP Koraput: In the wake of complaints from the farming community of Nandapur block in Koraput district about the shortage and black-marketing of urea fertiliser, local administration conducted a surprise inspection at multiple godowns Monday evening. Complaints have emerged that certain traders...

Joda: Properties over Rs 1 crore was stolen and burnt after miscreants set a foreign liquor shop on fire after stealing liquor from the shop at Cinema Hall Square in Joda town of Keonjhar district late Monday night. Reports said 80 per cent of the...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: The Crime Branch of Odisha Police Tuesday filed a preliminary charge-sheet against the accused persons over the death by self-immolation of a 20-year-old female student of Balasore's FM (Autonomous) College. The investigating officer of the Crime Against Women and Children Wing (CAWCW) of the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday asserted that addiction to making reels leads to domestic violence and asked women to restrict their use of mobile phones to keep a balance between family life and chatting on social media. She also said that women...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha DGP Yogesh Bahadur Khurania Tuesday asked police officers to take necessary measures to improve the conviction rates in crimes against women. Addressing a workshop on women's safety here, Khurania said, "As per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, the conviction rate in...