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Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Thursday claimed to have arrested two members of an interstate burglar gang involved in several house-breaking cases in the Capital City. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Prateek Singh said Dinesh Kumar Saha from Gujarat and Pawan Kumar from Haryana were nabbed...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday called upon states to create their own success stories on urban development. He said the vision of the Odisha government is the empowerment of communities. Patnaik said this while opening the three-day International Conclave on Urban Transformation organised...

Bhubaneswar: A day after opening the Srimandir Parikrama Prakalpa or the Temple Heritage Corridor in Puri, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday launched Shree Jagannath Express bus service to facilitate transportation of people from all districts of Odisha to the holy town. The objective is to...

Nirakarpur: A bus carrying several passengers was forcibly stopped by some persons over extortion demands near Badapokharia chhak on National Highway-16 in Khurda district, a source said Thursday. According to the source, the alleged anti-social persons stopped the bus from 5:30am to 9am Wednesday demanding...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections, the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has appointed office bearers for its 'War Room' to function in the state. This move came a day after the AICC released a list of coordinators for all 147...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Wednesday busted an inter-state racket allegedly involved in trading illegal cough syrup, and seized 1,680 bottles of 168 litre total volume. The arrested individuals, Jagannath Jena and Anil Kumar Nayak, both residents of Salia Sahi, allegedly sourced the consignment from Kolkata...

Bhubaneswar: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal to instruct the Food Corporation of India to procure an additional 10 lakh metric ton of parboiled rice from Odisha during the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2023-24. On Tuesday, Pradhan wrote to the...

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gamang Wednesday joined the Congress along with his wife and son almost nine years after he quit the party. Congress is the only party in the country that does principled politics, said the former nine-time MP from Koraput who...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Special Task Force (STF) has arrested one more member of the inter-state racket involved in the mule bank account scam from West Bengal, an STF official said Wednesday. The accused fraudster identified as Sourav Maity (30) is a resident of Rampura in West...