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Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday announced the third list of candidates for upcoming Assembly polls. The nine candidates included three turncoats. They are Prakash Behera (Barabati-Cuttack seat), Raisen Murmu (Rajgangpur) and Rohit Joseph Tirkey (Biramitrapur). The trio had joined the...

Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has approved the appointment of three IPS officers as Superintendent of Police (SP) of Rourkela, Angul and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Cuttack, an official said Friday. The ECI in a letter to Odisha Chief Secretary has approved...

Bhubaneswar: With the declaration of candidates for the simultaneous elections to the Assembly and the Lok Sabha, Odisha's three major political parties, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have been facing a tough task to quell the...

Bhubaneswar: One more Biju Janata Dal (BJD) heavyweight resigned from the primary membership of the party following the announcement of the third list of candidates for the Assembly constituencies in Odisha. Ramesh Chandra Sai, the sitting MLA from Athamallik assembly segment under the Sambalpur Lok...

Bhubaneswar: The Block Education Officer (BEO) sent a show-cause notice to 13 private schools for violation of Right to Education (RTE) Act here Thursday. The notice was sent after several parents gheraoed the BEO office and locked the gates. They unlocked it following an assurance...

Bhubaneswar: To put the dropout slum children back in government schools, ActionAid, in collaboration with Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD) and Government Primary School Second Postal Colony, conducted an enrolment drive on the occasion of Pravesh Utsav, Thursday. The programme was organised at...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police here arrested four hoodlums for allegedly preparing to commit dacoity, under Tamando police station limits, Thursday. Three knives, one hammer, chili powder packets and mobile phones were seized from the possession of the accused, said a senior officer at the Tamando...

Bhubaneswar/Berhampur: As political parties of Odisha released lists of candidates for the ensuing Lok Sabha and Odisha assembly polls, reports of resignation by leaders who fail to get tickets from the ruling BJD and opposition BJP are pouring in from different parts of the state....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha, which is reeling under intense heat, Thursday recorded the season's highest temperature so far of 42 degrees Celsius at two places, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Seven places in the state recorded a maximum temperature of 41 degrees Celsius and above, while...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police are ready with operational preparedness to counter any Maoist activity during the Lok Sabha elections, Director General of Police Arun Sarangi said Thursday. "Maoist activities have substantially reduced in the last few years. During the last elections in 2019, there were...