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Manish Kumar, OP Bhubaneswar, May 3: The disastrous impact of cyclone Fani was also felt in the state capital as the city came to a standstill for the whole day as the cyclone hit the city. The widespread disaster led the city towards a “cyclonic...

FANI claims two lives According to preliminary reports, heavy winds of FANI have so far claimed two lives.  A man died in Nayagarh as a wall collapsed on him and the second death was reported from Rajnagar of Kendrapara district where a lady died after...

Bhadrak: At least nine people died and over 60 others fell ill Tuesday after they allegedly consumed spurious liquor in a ‘post-election feast’ in Bhadrak district, police said. Some of the affected people have lost their eyesight. Spurious foreign liquor worth Rs 10 lakh had...

Bhubaneswar: Cyclonic storm ‘Fani’, which was formed over southeast Bay of Bengal & its neighbourhood, is moving towards Odisha at a speed of 11 kmph, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here Monday. Speaking to Orissa POST, IMD Additional Director General (ADG) Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said, “Fani...

Bhubaneswar: The fourth and final phase of general elections for six Lok Sabha and 41 Assembly constituencies in Odisha is underway Monday. Voting began at 7.00am and it will continue till 6.00pm. Polling is being held in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur Lok...

Bhubaneswar: Arrangements are in place to ensure free and fair voting in over 10,000 booths in the fourth phase of polls for six Lok Sabha and 41 assembly seats in Odisha Monday, a senior poll official said. Polling will be held in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak,...

New Delhi: Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his stance on caste and his ‘origins as a chaiwala’, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram asked Sunday if the PM considers people a ‘bunch of idiots’ who have suffered memory loss. The former Finance Minister’s scathing...

New Delhi: A voluntary organisation, the ‘Anti Corruption Council of India’ has filed a plea in the Delhi High Court asking it to restrain the media from publishing the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi by a former Supreme Court...

Colombo: Six children and three women were among 15 people killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up during a shootout with security forces in Sri Lanka’s Eastern province, police said Saturday. Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel and army troops got engaged in a gun...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday made a strong defence of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the prime accused in the Malegaon blast case, saying the BJP nominee from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency was being ‘defamed’ by the Congress which had also insulted Hinduism and its...