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Erasama: High tidal waves breached the shoreline near Siali beach under the Erasama block of Jagatsinghpur district late Friday night, flooding parts of the coastal village and leaving residents and tourists panicked. Sea water surged inland from the site of the Siali beach festival stage...

Keonjhar: A couple committed suicide by hanging following a fight in a forest near Jogimatha, Mundasahi village under Padmapur panchayat and Sadar police limits in Keonjhar district, police said Saturday. The deceased were identified as Raibu Munda, 22, and his wife, Gouri Munda, 20. The...

Jagatsinghpur: A powerful high tide swept across Siali beach in Erasama block of Jagatsinghpur district Saturday, flooding the coastline and nearby parking areas. The surge caused sea waters to breach nearly 200 metres inland, submerging the parking lot and adjacent areas, a source said. Local...

Bhubaneswar: Police Saturday recovered the half-burnt body of a forest department official under mysterious circumstances in Odisha's Nayagarh district. The deceased was identified as Sishir Sahu, a forester in Sarankul Pancharida range of Nayagarh district. The deceased's wife also sustained burn injuries while their son...

Nayagarh: A hunting expedition in the Gochha reserved forest under the Nayagarh forest division turned tragic Thursday night when a man was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow hunter, police said. The deceased was identified as Suryamani Pradhan, 42, of Gochha village under the...

Rourkela: A team of researchers at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela has developed a reusable photocatalyst system that uses natural sunlight to treat industrial wastewater, offering a cost-effective and sustainable solution especially suited for rural and resource-constrained regions. The system features iron-doped nano-titania combined...

 Nuapada: Pronouncing the verdict in a sensational case of sacrificial murder, a local court here Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for beheading his minor nephew in 2019 as part of a black magic ritual for better paddy yield. Apart from the life sentence,...

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: Security personnel Friday recovered a substantial amount of the explosives recently looted by Maoists in Sundargarh district following a fierce gun-battle with the Red rebels, police said. Around 200 packets of explosives, mostly gelatin sticks, were looted by Maoists at gunpoint in K Balang...

Berhampur: A court Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping his minor daughter in Ganjam district in 2023. Pranati Pattnaik, the Additional District Judge-cumJudge of the POCSO court here also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict. He will undergo jail...

Balasore: A major accident was averted on 12704 Secunderabad-Howrah Falaknuma Express Friday as fire was detected in the last bogie but it was doused before any harm was caused, a railway official said. The gateman at Kantapada railway station in Odisha's Balasore district spotted smoke...