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RESHMI YADAV, OP Bhubaneswar: The Barsha Festival 2025, organised by the cultural organisation Chinta O Chetana, concluded here at Rabindra Mandap, Wednesday. The three-day event celebrated Odisha’s rich heritage through music, dance, and honours to distinguished artistes. The final evening began with an evocative Odissi...

Bhubaneswar: A portion of a wall, and a shed of a platform in Odisha's Cuttack railway station collapsed and fell on the track during the ongoing redevelopment work Wednesday, officials said. A person suffered minor injuries, they said, adding that train movement resumed after being...

Balasore/Keonjhar: Ganesh Puja celebrations turned tragic in Odisha Wednesday as a 14-year-old student and a 35-year-old school teacher died in separate incidents during festivities in Balasore and Keonjhar districts, police said. In Balasore, class 9 student Priyanshu Pritam collapsed while playing with friends at Radhamadhaba...

Bhubaneswar: Normal life in Odisha was thrown out of gear Wednesday, as the low pressure induced incessant rainfall inundated several areas in the southern districts of Koraput, Malkangiri and Nabarangpur, while over 100 villages continued to remain marooned due to river flood in the north,...

Bhubaneswar: A portion of a wall and a shed of a platform in Odisha's Cuttack railway station collapsed during ongoing redevelopment work Wednesday, officials said. No casualty was reported, they said, adding that train movement was affected temporarily. Due to the wall collapse at platform...

Bhubaneswar: An Odisha Finance Service (OFS) officer has been arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000, Vigilance said Wednesday. The Vigilance sleuths arrested Sarita Barik, who was working as Assistant Commissioner of State Tax, Tuesday, and a case under the Prevention of...

Bhubaneswar: A day before the agrarian festival of Nuakhai, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday disbursed Rs 1,041 crore to the bank accounts of over 51 lakh farmers as the third instalment under the CM Kisan Yojana. Each beneficiary, mostly small and marginal farmers,...

Puri: A 31-year-old man from Kolkata was caught with spectacles fitted with hidden cameras inside the Jagannath temple in Odisha's Puri town Wednesday, police said. Photography or videography in the 12th-century shrine is banned. This was the fourth case of a person getting caught with...

Bhubaneswar: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is scheduled to inaugurate a national conference of chairpersons of various committees of Parliament and state legislatures on the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Bhubaneswar this month, an official release said Wednesday. Such a conference will...

Balasore: A 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped by several persons over the last six months after she was abducted by a man of her locality in Odisha's Balasore district, police said. The victim lodged a police complaint Tuesday, alleging that she was abducted and kept...