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Chilika: INS Chilka commemorated Kargil Vijay Diwas with solemn reverence to honour the valour and sacrifice of the Indian Armed Forces during the Kargil War of 1999. A wreath-laying ceremony was conducted at the War Memorial. Commodore B Deepak Aneel, Naval Officer-in-Charge (Odisha), laid the...

Bhubaneswar: Three persons were killed and two others seriously injured in a head-on collision between two trucks in Odisha's Nayagarh district Saturday, police said. According to police, the accident took place when the two trucks tried to save a motorcycle rider near Takara Chhak on...

Kendrapara: Police Saturday said they have detained a teacher of a government-run high school in Odisha's Kendrapara district for allegedly molesting a group of girl students. The incident has sparked outrage in the coastal village of Dangamal. Marine police station at Talchua has detained the...

Sambalpur: Two final-year MBBS students of a college drowned at the Deojharan waterfall in Odisha's Sambalpur district after a flash flood in the stream swept them away Saturday, police said. The two students of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), Burla,...

Kendrapara: Two bikers were killed after coming under the wheels of a bus in Odisha's Kendrapara district Saturday, police said. The accident took place at Madanpur Chowk under Pattamundai Rural police limits. The deceased have been identified as Saroj Dhal (62) and his brother-in-law Lambodar...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Saturday put the Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur district authorities on high alert and asked them to go for the evacuation of people from low-lying areas as several rivers were in spate, officials said. According to the State Flood Cell, the water levels...

Bhadrak: Police started an investigation after it was alleged that bodies were going missing from a burial ground in Odisha's Bhadrak district, officials said Saturday. Locals alleged that the bodies of four people, who died in the last few months, have gone missing from the...

Kendrapara: A 6.3-feet-long female saltwater crocodile was netted Saturday by forest personnel from a pond in a village close to Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district, officials said. Locals informed the Forest Department upon spotting the reptile in the pond in Endulalapur village. The...

Bhubaneswar/Koraput: A forest official was arrested in Odisha Saturday for the possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, the Vigilance department said. Anti-corruption Vigilance sleuths arrested Deputy Ranger Rama Chandra Nepak for the possession of Rs 1.43 crore in cash, a multi-storeyed...

Baripada: Illegal stone quarrying continues unchecked in the foothills of ecologically sensitive Similipal National Park in Mayurbhanj district, causing widespread concern over its environmental toll on the much-celebrated tiger reserve. Operations involving drilling and blasting are reportedly being carried out during the night, while transportation...