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Pension Delay in Odisha

Pension delay leaves 6,000 beneficiaries struggling in Kalahandi

Bhawanipatna: Beneficiaries across 26 gram panchayats under Kesinga block in Kalahandi district have not received their pension amounts through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for the last two months — April and May — triggering widespread resentment among 6,000 poor beneficiaries dependent on the assistance. The...

Ancient urban settlement unearthed at Purunagarh

Rairakhol: Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an ancient urban settlement and a flourishing iron-smelting industry at Purunagarh in Sambalpur district, shedding new light on the region’s early history and cultural development. The discoveries were made during an excavation conducted by the Department of History at...

Child marriage

Nabarangpur tops state in child marriage cases

Nabarangpur: Nabarangpur district continues to record the highest incidence of child marriage in Odisha, despite sustained awareness campaigns and government interventions aimed at curbing the criminal practice. According to official data, the district’s child marriage prevalence stands at 39.4 per cent, the highest in the...

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Spy camera found in ZP office women’s toilet

Jagatsinghpur: A spy camera was recovered from the women’s washroom at the Jagatsinghpur Zilla Parishad office Thursday, prompting police to launch an investigation to identify those responsible and determine whether any footage was recorded. A complaint was lodged at Tirtol police station by Additional Executive...

Female IIC suspended in custodial torture case

Kendrapara/Rajnagar: A female police inspector has been suspended for misconduct and dereliction of duty after officials of Talchua Marine police station in Kendrapara district were accused of custodial torture. The step was taken after Annapurna Mandal, 55, and her son Ananta Kumar Mandal, 31, of...

New marine ‘Amphipod’ species found

Berhampur: Researchers from the PG department of Marine Sciences at Berhampur University have discovered a new species of marine amphipod from the rocky intertidal coast of Arjyapalli. The tiny crustacean named ‘Elasmopus arjyaensis’ was identified through both morphological and DNA-based analysis and has now been...

Pujari reviews BRICS meet preparations

Bhubaneswar: Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari Thursday chaired a high-level review meeting to assess preparations for the BRICS technical meeting of the Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group, scheduled to be held in Puri from June 3 to 5 under India’s BRICS presidency. During...

Four held in cyber fraud, fake APK challan scam

Four held in cyber fraud, fake APK challan scam

Bhubaneswar: The Cyber Crime and Economic Offences units of the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police have arrested four persons from West Bengal and Jharkhand in connection with multiple cyber fraud cases involving fake investment schemes and malicious APK-based RTO challan scams that duped victims of lakhs of...

 

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