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Colombo: India handed a debut to spin bowling all-rounder Saransh Jain as captain Shubman Gill elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the second Test Sunday. India have an unassailable 1-0 lead in the two-match series, having won the opening Test at Galle by a...

Riamal: A female elephant was found dead in a protected forest near Jharabereni village under the Kundheigola section of Riamal forest range in Debagada district, forest officials said. The carcass was discovered in the forest under the jurisdiction of Chadheimara gram panchayat. The Kundheigola section...

By BIRA KISHORE DASH, OP Patana: Seventy-seven-year-old Gopinath Narayan High School in this block headquarters town of Kendujhar district is in a dilapidated condition, with students forced to attend classes under leaking roofs. The school, established in 1949 through the efforts of residents and named...

Jharsuguda: Police arrested four people, including a cash executive of Radiant Cash Management Services Ltd., for allegedly staging a fake robbery to misappropriate money collected from customers in Jharsuguda district, officials said Saturday. Jharsuguda Superintendent of Police Gundala Reddy Raghavendra said during a press conference...

Baripada: A serving sub-inspector of Baripada Town police station has been arrested for allegedly torturing his newly-wed wife over dowry and attempting to kill her by strangling her, police said. The accused, SI Pravat Kumar Nayak, a native of Baniapat in Kendujhar district, was arrested...

Nilagiri: Two college students went missing Saturday while bathing in the Blue Lake near Mitripur and Machhua villages on the Swar nachuda foothills under Nilagiri police limits in Baleshwar district. The unsafe man-made lake has reportedly claimed several lives in recent years. Three friends, all...

Nabarangpur: Farmers in rain-dependent areas face recurring droughts because of inadequate and erratic rainfall when the monsoon fails, farmlands dry up and crop production is severely affected. To address the problem, a pilot project has been launched in Kosagumuda block of Nabrangpur district under the...

Bhubaneswar: The World Skill Center (WSC) has signed 25 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with government and private engineering colleges and universities to strengthen industry-academia collaboration and expand access to advanced, industry-aligned skill training for Odisha’s youth. The MoUs were signed at an ‘MoU Signing-cum-Felicitation Ceremony’...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Saturday blamed the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in Odisha for the sharp rise in sugar prices, alleging that the state is witnessing the highest sugar prices in the country and that consumers are being forced to...

Bhubaneswar: A Special Vigilance Court Saturday sentenced former principal of the Government Driving Training School, Bhubaneswar, Pravakar Behera, to three years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a disproportionate assets (DA) case. The court also imposed a fine of `1 lakh on Behera, who had been...