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Bhubaneswar: Ganesh Uike, 69, a battle-hardened Maoist leader, finally fell to the bullets of security personnel in Kandhamal district Thursday, less than a year after taking charge of Odisha operations, officials said. Uike, a central committee member of the outfit carrying a bounty of Rs...

Sambalpur: Odisha vigilance department Thursday arrested a revenue official after detecting multiple assets, including 16 plots and two buildings, allegedly beyond his known sources of income, officials said. Raids were conducted Wednesday at the property of Basudev Bhoi, senior revenue assistant in the office of...

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi:  Maoist Central Committee member Ganesh Uike and five other Naxalites have been neutralised so far in a major operation in the forests of Kandhmal, Odisha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Thursday. In a message posted on 'X', Shah termed it a significant...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Thursday released the Constitution of India in the Santhali language during an event at Rashtrapati Bhavan, expressing the hope that this initiative will enable tribal communities to read and comprehend the statute in their native language. Addressing the gathering, the...

Sambalpur/Kolkata: A 30-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed in Odisha's Sambalpur district following an altercation over a bidi, police said Thursday. Juel Sheikh was working, along with a few others from West Bengal, in the construction of a building in Shanti Nagar...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's leaders, including Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Leader of Opposition in state assembly Naveen Patnaik paid rich tributes to former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his 101th birth anniversary Thursday. Majhi, along with his cabinet colleagues, offered...

Angul: Five security guards were arrested in Odisha's Angul district for allegedly shooting dead two persons who attempted theft at a stockyard, police said Thursday. The incident happened at Lingarakata near Pipeline Road in the Talcher police station area in the early hours of Wednesday,...

Bhadrak: Normal life was severely affected in Odisha's Chandbali block Thursday due to a six-hour bandh called by opposition BJD and Congress in protest against the alleged rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl, officials said. No untoward incident has been reported so far amid...

Daringbadi: Miscreants in the garb of Vigilance sleuths allegedly looted cash and gold ornaments from the royal family of Simadri Deo at Gadapur Bazaar under Brahmanigaon police limits in Kandhamal district, police said Wednesday. According to the complaint, the accused arrived at the house Monday,...

Chhendipada: A 15-year-old girl sustained severe injuries after a crude bomb allegedly planted by poachers to kill wild animals exploded in a forest area near Gohirapashi under Chhendipada forest range in Angul district Wednesday, police said. The injured has been identified as Manasi Behera of...