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Keonjhar: A 26-year-old man and a 24-year-old married woman have been allegedly physically assaulted, forced to wear footwear garlands and paraded on the streets of a village in Odisha's Keonjhar district on the suspicion of having an extra-marital relationship, police said Friday. The incident took...

Kendrapara: Forest department personnel in Odisha's Kendrapara district Friday seized around 15 quintals of mangrove roots that bore resemblance to sandalwood in Bhitarkanika National Park and arrested nine people, including five women, for trespassing into the protected forest and felling trees, officials said. Ten quintals...

Kendrapara: Forest officials in Odisha's Kendrapara district Friday rescued two poisonous snakes that had strayed into houses in villages located within the Bhitarkanika National Park. While a five-foot-long monocled cobra was rescued from the backyard of a house in Khamarasahi village, a nine-foot-long python was...

Nuapada: The BJP, BJD and Congress are trying to woo the tribal voters in the Nuapada assembly byelection, as they constitute more than 33 per cent of the total electorate of the constituency. The Congress has fielded Ghasiram Majhi, a local tribal man from Nuapada,...

Keonjhar: Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) said it continues to operate within India’s legal framework following the Forest department's decision to revoke its working permission for the Roida-I iron ore and manganese mines in Keonjhar district. In a statement issued Thursday, the company said...

Jajpur: While the state government has been proactive for the protection, restoration and development of various religious sites, a 1,200-year-old Jagannath temple atop a hill in Balarampurgarh under Dharmasala block of Jajpur district has been left neglected. Parts of the ancient temple’s boundary wall collapsed...

Berhampur: Police Thursday arrested another suspect in the murder case of BJP leader and senior advocate Pitabas Panda. The accused has been identified as Sunil Hota, 52, the owner of a farmhouse in Jeypore of Koraput district. According to investigators, after Panda was shot dead,...

Joda: The Keonjhar district administration has issued an eviction notice to the Jagannath Steel and Power Plant located in Uliburu under Karakhendra panchayat of Joda block on charge of encroaching on tribal land. The matter came to the fore after the office of Champua Sub-Collector...

Koraput: Train services on the Koraput–Kirandul rail route were suspended for about three hours Thursday afternoon after boulders rolled down from a hill near the Maliguda station and blocked the tracks. This is the second such incident within a week, as a similar situation had...

Keonjhar: Suspicion of wildlife poaching in Similipal Wildlife Sanctuary in Mayurbhanj district has again started doing the rounds after a joint team arrested two persons and seized a leopard hide from their possession in neighbouring Keonjhar district Thursday. The accused were identified as Rabindra Tudu,...