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Kendrapara: Police Saturday arrested a private tutor in Odisha's Kendrapara district for allegedly sexually harassing and threatening to upload objectionable morphed pictures and videos of a 17-year-old girl on social media platforms, an officer said. The accused Rajesh Behera, a native of Marshaghai area of...

Bhubaneswar: India Meteorological Department (IMD) Saturday said a fresh low-pressure area is likely to form over the northwest Bay of Bengal, off the Odisha–West Bengal coasts, around August 25. The existing low-pressure area over Gangetic West Bengal and its neighbourhood continues to persist. Under its...

Kendrapara: Bhitarkanika National Park, a haven of biodiversity, is fast losing its ecological integrity with rampant illegal fi sh farming and exports overtaking protected forest zones. Amid ongoing threats such as coastal erosion and forest land encroachment, both the coastal and interior regions of the...

Malkangiri: A total of 1,398 critical patients from remote areas of Malkangiri district received free specialist and super-specialist treatment under the Mukhyamantri Bayu Swasthya Seva Yojana (MBSSY) during a medical camp at the district headquarters hospital from August 18 to 21. According to officials, 260...

Lanjigarh: A large number of people in Kalahandi district Friday staged a demonstration demanding the immediate opening of bauxite mines to secure their livelihoods. The villagers under the banner of Lanjigarh Anchalik Vikash Parishad (LAVP) took out a rally led by Sridhar Pesnia, president of...

Bolangir/Patnagarh: A 19-year-old woman was critically injured and left fighting for her life after her boyfriend allegedly slit her throat and later reportedly attempted suicide by consuming poison in Bolangir district early Friday morning. The incident occurred in Mayabarha village under Bolangir Sadar police limits....

Jaleswar: A woman in Balasore district had to watch over her 26-year-old son’s body for 18 long hours after villagers refused to help with his funeral because her family had been ostracised over witchcraft suspicions. Madan Besra, son of Raju Besra from Deulbar village in...

Baripada: “If elephants are protected alongside forests for future generations, the environment can remain secured,” Dharitri and Orissa POST Editor of Tathagata Satpathy said Friday, emphasising the importance of modern education in elephant conservation. Addressing ‘Hatinka Gati’, a meeting on elephant movement and conservation, at...

Keonjhar: Villagers in Odisha's Keonjhar district Friday rescued an eight-year-old girl student whose head got stuck in a window grill of a government school where she was left locked overnight, police said. The incident took place at the Government Upper Primary School at Anjar under...

Baripada: A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Friday sentenced a 60-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a specially abled girl last year. Fast Track Special Court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak pronounced Birasing Hansdah guilty of raping the 12-year-old girl, and also imposed a fine...