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Baliguda: Forest and police officials seized two leopard skins and arrested a man during a joint raid at Baliguda bus stand in Kandhamal district Friday. Uttam Majhi of Ratang village under Phiringia police station was arrested on charges of illegal possession of the skins, Divisional...

Puri: A 20-year-old college student was found hanging inside her hostel room at a women’s college in Puri Thursday evening, police said Friday. The deceased was identified as Nandini Bag, a first-year 3 Commerce student of the college and a native of Kadipur village in...

Bhubaneswar: Intellectuals, young people, particularly Gen Z, must raise awareness about preventing pollution and adopt environmentally friendly practices in their daily lives. Only through everyone’s active participation we can build a clean and healthy environment, said Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia...

Puri: Joint teams comprising police personnel, food safety officials and officials of the Weights and Measures department are conducting raids on Khaja preparation units and shops in Puri following complaints of poor quality, short weight and unhygienic preparation of the popular sweet. Puri SP Prateek...

Bhubaneswar: Utkal University authorities Friday lodged a police complaint over an alleged leak of a question paper for the ongoing second-semester degree exam, an official said. From some unverified sources, we came to know that the question paper of Thursday's theory exam was leaked. However,...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Odisha Friday announced an additional 25 per cent fiscal support on capital expenditure for semiconductor projects aligned with the Centre's newly-approved Semicon 2.0 programme, as Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said the state has become the first in the country to extend policy...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has put 20 districts on alert and asked 10 others to remain vigilant in view of an impending low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal that is likely to intensify into a depression, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said Friday....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Department Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Bank of India (SBI), through its payment aggregator service SBIePay, to strengthen digital payment infrastructure and facilitate seamless, secure and citizen-centric payment services across Urban Local Bodies...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Friday revised the schedule for ward delimitation and seat reservation for elections to municipalities, NACs and municipal corporations scheduled early next year, an official said. The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department informed district collectors about the revised schedule, making partial...

Bhubaneswar: The additional secretary of Odisha's transport and commerce department, Arun Kumar Biswal, was arrested Friday for allegedly "sexually harassing and attempting to murder" a woman employee, police said. Biswal was arrested following a written complaint lodged by the woman at Kharvelnagar police station. According...