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Bhubaneswar: The railway ministry has allocated Rs70 crore for the Rayagada Railway Division in Odisha under the East Coast Railway Zone, officials said Friday. The establishment of the Rayagada Railway Division is poised to bring significant benefits to the region, enhancing connectivity and fostering economic...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday approved a proposal to set up two new employees' state insurance (ESI) hospitals in the state. The hospitals will come up in Keonjhar and Sonepur towns, and largely benefit workers and their family members, Majhi said in...

Bhubaneswar: A low-pressure area, the third in a month, over north Bay of Bengal and adjacent coastal areas of Bangladesh and Gangetic West Bengal is likely to trigger heavy rainfall in parts of Odisha over the next four days, weather officials said Friday. Under its...

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Crime Branch arrested a fraudster involved in the illegal withdrawal of over Rs 9 crore from the account of District Mineral Foundation Trust of Zilla Parishad in Mayurbhanj through clone cheque fraud, a source said Friday. The...

Jajpur: Residents of Jajpur district were left disappointed after the proposed rail route from Jajpur Road to Dhamra port via Jajpur town and Aradi in Bhadrak district failed to find mention in the Union Budget recently tabled by the Centre in the Parliament. A plan...

Sambalpur: Hirakud dam will discharge this season’s first floodwater from the reservoir July 28, official sources said. The decision was taken after a steady rise in the water level of the reservoir following heavy rainfall upstream of the dam. This was stated here by a...

Keonjhar/Rourkela: A man was killed in a tusker attack while another sustained a critical injury at Hunda village in Jangira forest section under Sadar forest range in Keonjhar district, Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Maheswar Juang, 45, and the critically injured person as...

Keonjhar: Keonjhar District Sessions Judge Ashok Kumar Panda Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 after convicting him of the murder of his father in 2019. The convict was identified as Naba Kishore Munda, son of slain Bishu...

Bhubaneswar: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the state government that no sand mining in Subarnarekha river passing Balasore district can be carried out without submission of a fresh District Survey Report. The environment watchdog’s Eastern Zone bench issued the direction recently while hearing...

Berhampur: Two minor siblings died of drowning, while another minor girl missed death by a whisker Thursday, while playing near a village pond in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said. The incident happened in Marei Naugaon under the jurisdiction of Khallikote police station, a police officer...