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Bhubaneswar: Odisha state council of All India Youth Federation (AIYF) Sunday organised a state-level Young Women’s Convention at Bhagwati Bhavan chaired by Aparna Routray. The convention highlighted a range of issues affecting young women across the country, including rising unemployment, growing incidents of violence against...

Bhubaneswar: A farmers’ training and scientist–farmer interaction programme was organised recently in President Droupadi Murmu’s village in Rairangpur, Mayurbhanj, bringing together experts and over 200 farmers from Uperbeda, Hatabadra, Aharabandha and Kusumi villages. The programme was jointly conducted by Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha may see a change in weather as a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Sunday. According to the IMD, a well-marked low-pressure area over the southwest Bay of Bengal continued at 2:30...

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India has built a high-security data centre in Odisha, strategically located well away from potential cross-border threat zones and high seismic-risk regions, as part of efforts to safeguard critical financial infrastructure and strengthen continuity of core systems. The greenfield...

Bhubaneswar: The state Higher Education department has sanctioned Rs 1.73 crore for the development of 11 colleges and one university across Odisha under the ‘Ama Gourav Ama College’ scheme, aimed at strengthening infrastructure and academic facilities in higher educational institutions. Among the institutions set to...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged an Odisha farmer who has secured extra income through better land use and water savings, in his monthly radio broadcast, “Mann Ki Baat”, Sunday. The PM also mentioned a Kerala village’s success in growing 570 varieties of rice...

Boinda: In a 30-year-old dowry harassment and murder case in the Athmallik NAC area of Angul district, a local court handed down life imprisonment to a man and his mother, sources said. The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ranjan Kumar Sutar at Athmallik...

Bolangir/Tarbha/Sonepur: A newlywed bride was allegedly abducted at gunpoint while returning home with the groom after their wedding in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The groom, Haribandhu Putel, alias Rinku, of Kamakhi Nagar in Bolangir town, had married Chandini, alias Rashmi, of Rathapada...

Bhubaneswar: An Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer was booked in Bhubaneswar for allegedly raping a woman, police said Sunday. The case was lodged under BNS Section 64 on the basis of a complaint filed at the Saheednagar police station of the city, they said. The...

Ahmedabad: David Miller rolled back the years with exhilarating strokes, but Jasprit Bumrah's superb initial and end act restricted South Africa to a par score of 187 for seven in the Super Eights game of the T20 World Cup Sunday. Miller, standing on the cusp...