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Kendrapada: A 35-year-old dance teacher of a government school in Odisha was arrested Wednesday for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old Dalit student and threatening her with dire consequences if she informed anyone about it, police said. According to a complaint lodged by the victim's parents, the...

Kendrapada: A 38-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly murdering his wife and attempting to pass off the crime as a suicide in Odisha's Kendrapada district, police said. The accused, identified as Dharmendra Rout of Garjanapur village under Rajnagar police station limits, was arrested for...

Guwahati: Centuries from John Campbell, Shai Hope and Amir Jangoo powered the West Indies to their first 400-plus total in the 50-over format, a mammoth 405 for seven against India in the second ODI here Wednesday. After being sent into bat, Campbell set the tone...

Bhubaneswar: An Odisha factories officer was arrested Wednesday, a day after vigilance department sleuths unearthed multiple properties and land parcels owned by him that are disproportionate to his known source of income. Umakant Samantaray, an assistant director of factories and boilers in Sambalpur, has been...

Bhubaneswar: BJP state spokesperson Anil Biswal Wednesday alleged that the recently published Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report had exposed large-scale irregularities in the utilisation of mining-related funds during the previous BJD government headed by Naveen Patnaik. Addressing a press conference at the BJP state...

Bhubaneswar: Construction of tourism infrastructure in protected forest areas in violation of the Forest Conservation Act and operation of 20 government-run Panthanivas without mandatory fire safety certificates, besides substantial financial mismanagement, have come under the spotlight in a CAG audit of Odisha's coastal tourism sector....

Puri: The Gundicha temple in Puri, near the famous Jagannath temple, reopened for devotees Wednesday after a six-year hiatus, officials said. The temple doors opened at 7.45 am, after rituals were performed in the presence of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) chief administrator Arabinda Padhee,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Forest and Environment Minister Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia Wednesday said the local climate suits the rescued baby orangutans kept in quarantine in a special temperature-controlled enclosure at a zoo here, and their health is gradually improving. The minister said teams of specialist doctors regularly...

Kataka: A joint team of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) seized nearly 116 kg of ganja from Puri-LTT Express at Cuttack railway station and arrested five people. The seized contraband, weighing 115.93 kg, was found in seven trolley bags and...

Baleshwar/Nayagada: More than 30 villages in Baleshwar's Bhograi block remained waterlogged Wednesday, while three days of incessant rain inundated agricultural fields in Nayagada, damaging paddy, vegetables and other crops and adding to the woes of residents and farmers, sources said. In Bhograi, more than 30...