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New York: US President Donald Trump said that the United States and Venezuela have reached an oil agreement. "The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!" Trump wrote in...

Kathmandu: The death toll from flash floods in central Nepal rose to 626 Saturday, with more bodies being recovered and nearly 2,000 people still missing following the disaster. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said the bodies were recovered from eight districts...

Kathmandu: Nearly 2,500 stranded people, including 163 foreigners, were evacuated by rescue teams in Nepal, as search and relief operations continued Saturday following the devastating flash floods that killed over 500. The flash floods swept through Rasuwa and other parts of central Nepal on Wednesday,...

SUSHANTA KUMAR SAHU, OP Anandapur: A government primary school at Balipashi under Shalabani panchayat in Anandapur block of Kendujhar district is functioning amid several problems, including leaking classroom roofs, a damaged boundary wall, poor sanitation and the absence of a proper road to the school....

Bhubaneswar/Jajpur: Odisha is set to get a major new Buddhist landmark with a 45-foot statue of Guru Padmasambhava, revered as the “Second Buddha”, coming up near the historic Udayagiri Buddhist site in Jajpur district. The project is aimed at giving a global push to Odisha’s...

Baragada: A woman and her 18-month-old daughter from Baragada district are missing following the devastating floods in Nepal, while the woman’s husband has been reported safe, officials said Friday. The missing persons have been identified as Gunnam Sai Bindu Kumari, wife of Gunnam Jayakrishna, and...

Brajarajnagar: The body of well-known social activist Ravi Soni was recovered from the banks of the Ib River in Brajarajnagar area of Jharsuguda district Friday, police said. An Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) team recovered the body around 11am after being alerted about the...

Bhubaneswar: The 32nd Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra (GKCM) Award Festival will be held at Rabindra Mandap here from September 5 to 9, bringing together leading exponents of classical dance, music, theatre and cinema. Organised by the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Odissi Nrityabasa in collaboration with Sri Sri...

Nayagada: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy and Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Friday tied rakhis on Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's wrist at a function organised to mark the disbursement of the fifth instalment of financial assistance to women beneficiaries under the state's flagship Subhadra...

Stavanger (Norway): King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen in order to marry his school sweetheart, has died. He was 89. The...