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Bhubaneswar: A portion of the false ceiling at Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office collapsed Tuesday morning, raising serious safety concerns about the newly built civic body building. According to reports, the incident took place around 9am. A small portion of the ceiling collapsed inside the...

Rajkanika: A 13-year-old boy from Khunta village in Jaynagar panchayat under this block in Kendrapara district, narrowly escaped death Tuesday after fighting off a crocodile attack. Rakesh, son of farmer Ratnakar Mallick and a student of Class-VIII, was carrying lunch for his father working in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday said that South Korean steel major POSCO is all set to establish a 6 MTPA green field project in the state's mineral-rich Keonjhar district in a joint venture with the JSW Group. Welcoming the return of POSCO...

Baripada: A 10-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old youth of her community in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, police said Tuesday. Quoting the FIR filed by the survivor's family, police said the youth raped the girl when she went outside her house in Jashipur...

Berhampur: A man who had been absconding for six years in connection with the alleged rape of two minor girls in Odisha's Balasore district was arrested from Karnataka for his involvement in a recent murder in the city, police said Tuesday. The accused, who had...

Jajpur: Tension prevailed at Jajpur District Headquarters Hospital in Odisha Tuesday after a 32-year-old man died allegedly due to the administration of a wrong injection by hospital staff, police said. The deceased has been identified as Bharat Das, a resident of Dharmasala block in Jajpur...

Kendrapara: An 82-year-old man was killed in a crocodile attack at a village in Odisha's Kendrapara district Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place at Malatipatna village when Panchanan Das, a cattle grazer, was dragged by the reptile in Brahmani River. His body was...

New Delhi: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Amar Patnaik Tuesday said his party would "welcome" the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls but warned that if the exercise was carried out in a manner leading to "disenfranchisement of rightful voters", the BJD would "oppose...

Kendrapara: The Odisha Police Tuesday said that the 19-year-old female college student, whose charred body was found in her house in Kendrapara district August 6, had died by suicide and it was not a case of honour killing as alleged earlier. A day after the...

Malkangiri: Champa Raspeda of Odisha's Malkangiri district became the first student from the Didayi, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), to clear NEET-2025 and secure admission into Fakir Mohan Medical College & Hospital, Balasore. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi expressed happiness over the student's achievement....