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Nuapada: The Odisha Vigilance's forest wing seized a leopard skin and arrested an alleged hunter in Udyanbandh Forest Range under Khariar Forest Division in Nuapada district Tuesday. The accused, identified as Inyat Alli, a resident of Kumuntimunda village under Kumna police station, was arrested for...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Tuesday stepped up preparedness and deployed 33 Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams in vulnerable districts as a depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a deep depression and trigger heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in several...

Nisshin (Japan): The Indian women's cricket team reasserted its continental dominance by clinching a second successive gold medal at the Asian Games, thrashing familiar foes Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final Tuesday. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led side's gold was India's first of the ongoing...

Sano (Japan): Seasoned spinner Axar Patel choked the inexperienced Japanese batters just in time as India survived a scare to win the rain-curtailed one-off T20 International between the two mis-matched sides by a mere two runs here on Tuesday. With the match being reduced to...

Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four pilgrims, including seven women and some children, were injured, ten of them critically, when a bus carrying devotees from Hooghly in West Bengal rammed into another pilgrim bus on NH-16 near Dhamra Railway Overbridge in Bhadrak district early Sunday, police said. The accident...

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rain due to a depression lashed coastal and southern Odisha Tuesday, forcing the government to close schools, cancel employees' leaves and deploy teams in vulnerable areas to prepare for a possible calamity. With the weather department forecasting that the inclement weather would continue,...

Chhatrapur: Ganjam district administration has reportedly declared holidays for all anganwadi centres and schools in the district until September 24, in view of the extremely heavy rainfall expected under the influence of an impending deep depression over the Bay of Bengal. Heavy rainfall has already...

Nisshin (Japan): Defending champions India won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the women's T20 gold medal match at the Asian Games in Japan’s Nisshin Tuesday. The fixture is not only a rematch of last edition's final but also the Asia...

By Banchhanidhi Dey, OP Baleshwar: Students at a government high school in Baleshwar district are attending classes in a dilapidated brick-and-asbestos structure, as the school grapples with a shortage of classrooms and other infrastructure gaps, parents and local residents said. The Government Nodal High School,...

Mahakalapada: More than 30 tribal fishing families from villages in Mahakalapada block of Kendrapada district are living in makeshift polythene shelters on small islands within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. With the possibility of a cyclone forming over Bay of Bengal, concerns have been raised over...