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Dasamantapur: Villagers of Paduguda village under Lulla panchayat in Dasamantapur block of Koraput district carried a 30-year-old man on a cot for 3km Monday after he was bitten by a snake while grazing cattle near Ajaghat hill. The victim, Naveen Saunta, son of Sarathi Saunta,...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Sub-Ordinate Staff Selection Commission (OSSSC) will re-conduct the preliminary examination for posts like RI, ICDS Supervisor, ARI, Amin, and Statistical Field Surveyor under the Combined Recruitment Examination (CRE) 2023 (IV) on CBRE mode from October 8, 2025, official sources said. The examination...

Rayagada: Forest officials seized two leopard skins and arrested four men in Rayagada district while they were attempting to smuggle the skins to Maharashtra, officials said Sunday. The joint operation was carried out by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, and the Rayagada Forest...

Bhubaneswar: The newly formed Shree Jagannath Temple Management Committee met Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday at Lok Seva Bhawan to express gratitude for their appointments and discuss key initiatives for better temple management. During the meeting, members highlighted the need for more systematic and...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police has so far rescued 1,209 missing children, including 1,078 girls, and 6,667 missing women through special drives conducted in 2025, officials said. A total of 358 missing children and 2,059 missing women were rescued by police during a special drive named...

Bhubaneswar: A priest was sentenced to seven years in jail by a special court in Bhubaneswar Monday for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl at a temple. Pradyumna Kumar Mallia (35), a priest of the Kapileshwar temple, was convicted by the special POCSO court in connection...

Malkangiri: A 45-year-old man, stranded for over 20 hours on a rock in the middle of Saberi river on the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border, was rescued after being airlifted Monday, police said. The man, identified as Irma Sodhi of Kotamateru village in Malkangiri, was trapped in the...

Balasore: A 35-year-old man on the way to buy a cake for his daughter's birthday was killed when a truck hit his motorcycle from behind in Odisha's Balasore district Monday, police said. The accident happened at Bagudi market in Soro police station area when Umakanta...

Bhubaneswar: A new township will be built on 800 acre of land on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, Odisha's Housing & Urban Development Minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra said Monday. The 'New Bhubaneswar' township will cover areas such as Mallipada, Daspur, Andharua, and Gothapatna, Mahapatra told reporters...

Puri: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Monday opened a breastfeeding room on the premises of the 12th-century shrine in Odisha's Puri. SJTA chief administrator Arabinda Padhee said such a facility was the need of the hour, as a large number of nursing mothers visit...