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Bhadrak: A 54-year-old woman patient died of suspected suffocation Thursday as the elevator in which she was being shifted to a ward in Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital here developed a technical snag and got stranded for some time, officials said. Hospital sources said that the...

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: The Odisha government Thursday declared Similipal in Mayurbhanj district as a National Park. Odisha's Forest, Environment and Climate Change department, in a notification, said that by exercising its authority under Section 35(4) of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, the state government declared Similipal as...

Jajpur: A day after a six-year-old boy went missing, his body was recovered from an abandoned stone quarry in Odisha's Jajpur district Thursday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Shivu Rout, son of Bauribandhu Rout of Chargotha village under Jenapur police limits, they...

Balasore: A speechless nine-year-old Tanuj Kumar Satpathy lit the funeral pyre of his father, Prashant, killed in the terror attack in Pahalgam, at their village in Odisha's Balasore district Thursday morning. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena, and Balasore MP Pratap...

Balasore: The mortal remains of 41-year-old Prashant Satpathy from Odisha’s Balasore district, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, arrived late Wednesday night at Bhubaneswar airport. His body reached Isani village in Balasore early Thursday, plunging the entire community into mourning. Odisha...

Balasore: A 60-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 for raping his daughter-in-law. Additional sessions judge, Fast Track Special courts, Anita Sahoo Wednesday convicted the father in-law on the charge committing rape against his...

Jajpur: Jajpur district administration might have collected more than Rs 45 crore in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds over the past four years, but it has reportedly failed to utilise the funds in development of regions that are bearing the brunt of mining and industrial...

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Kendrapara: In a grand culmination of the annual mass nesting of endangered Olive Ridley turtles, lakhs of hatchlings broke out of eggshells to emerge from sandy pits and crawl towards the sea at the idyllic Gahirmatha beach off the Bay of Bengal coast in Odisha's...

Baripada: A POCSO court here sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a 12-year-old girl in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, a government lawyer said Wednesday. Special POCSO court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on convict Md...