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Nuapada: A horrific murder took place Sunday afternoon in Kenalpada Khutman Bhera village under the Dharmabandha police station in Nuapada Sadar block. A man brutally hacked his wife to death with an axe. The deceased has been identified as Tirita Kamar, 40. The police have...

Keonjhar: Two days after a labourer was killed in a soil cave-in during slurry pipeline laying work of a company in Keonjhar district, the divisional labour commissioner conducted an inquiry Sunday, officials said. The deceased, identified as Kartik Samant, 35, of East Midnapore in West...

Koraput: The discovery of a mutilated body of a 30-year-old man near a hill here Sunday, with his motorcycle abandoned by the roadside, has prompted a police probe. The deceased has been identified as Ante Mali of Mali Talagaon under the Podagada panchayat. Local villagers...

Rajnagar: In a bid to prevent the influx of Bangladeshi foreign nationals and curb criminal activities along the Odisha coast, the Talachua Marine Police carried out coastal surveillance using drones in the Talachua sea on Sunday. Inspector-In-Charge (IIC) of Talachua Marine Police Station, Bimal Kumar...

Keonjhar/Hatadihi: The Odisha Information Commission has issued a notice to the Chief District Medical Offi cer (CDMO) of Keonjhar for failing to provide information related to Covid-19 under the Right to Information Act. The commission, acting on appeal no. 502/2021, directed its assistant legal officer...

Koraput: A dispute over a salap tree went awry in Rudhichua village under Kasandi panchayat of Nandapur block in Koraput district, as a man died after being assaulted by his younger brother Sunday. The deceased has been identified as 38-year-old Jayaram Pangi. His wife, Mani,...

Bhubaneswar: Amid farmers' protest over alleged scarcity of urea in some parts of Odisha, the state government Sunday closed 30 fertiliser shops and suspended licences of 62 dealers during enforcement drives, an official statement said. To check the black marketing and stolen or fake fertilisers,...

Berhampur: Seven people, including a retired police officer, were arrested Sunday in Odisha's Ganjam district for their alleged involvement in smuggling of leopard skin, police said. The accused were apprehended from a house in Bhanjanagar North Forest Division area and a private lodge, they said....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday announced the formation of 16 new notified area councils as well as upgradation of seven existing NACs into municipalities. CM Majhi made this announcement while addressing a programme on the occasion of Local Self Governance Day. During...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer Madhusmita Singh was suspended for her alleged involvement in misappropriation of government funds, officials said Sunday. In her last assignment, Singh was the tahasildar of Jamada in Mayurbhanj district, they said. "The governor of Odisha, in exercise of the...