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Bhubaneswar/Baripada: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday inaugurated a new 650-bed hospital of Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College and launched different developmental projects worth over Rs 430 crore in the tribal dominated Mayurbhanj district. During his one-day visit to Mayurbhanj, the chief minister said...

Rourkela: Odisha Police Monday demolished houses of six drug peddlers in Rourkela city as part of the 'Nasha Mukt Odisha Drive', an officer said. Rourkela police and local administration carried out the joint eviction and demolition drive at Meena Pada within Plant Site police station...

Baripada: Days after a big cat killed a man in Similipal National Park in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday asked people living near the Park not to enter the forest alone. Majhi said this while addressing a gathering, where he stated...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE-2026) results were declared Monday by state Skill Development and Technical Education minister Sampad Chandra Swain. The OJEE was conducted for admission into 16 technical and professional courses in different government and private educational institutions in the state. Shubhransu...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's helicopter made an emergency landing in Puri Monday evening due to inclement weather, officials said. Majhi, along with Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling, was returning to Bhubaneswar after attending a programme at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Livelihoods Mission (OLM) and IIT-Bhubaneswar Monday signed an MoU to provide business support to rural women entrepreneurs in the state. Through this collaboration, they will receive support in business planning, product development, quality enhancement, market linkages, access to finance, and professional networking,...

Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik has convened a meeting of party leaders who unsuccessfully contested the 2024 Odisha Assembly elections, ahead of the state BJP government's second anniversary, party leaders said Monday. The meeting has been called at Sankha Bhawan, the BJD state headquarters, at...

Bhawanipatna: Vigilance officials caught a MGNREGA assistant posted with the Kalahandi Watershed Department Monday while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000 from a beneficiary. The accused has identified as Priyanka Jena, was allegedly demanding money to facilitate the release of a bill related to...

Bhubaneswar: A 36-year-old man was arrested in Odisha for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman after exploiting her vulnerability following a job fraud incident, police said Monday. Police said the victim woman lodged a written complaint at Dhauli Police Station Sunday. Although the alleged rape took...

Bhubaneswar: Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Manmath Routray has said that V.K. Pandian's wife, Sujata R. Karthikeyan, is likely to join the BJD soon, describing her induction as "almost certain." Routray said party leaders and workers are eagerly awaiting her arrival. "The sooner she...