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Baripada: Panic gripped a remote village in Mayurbhanj district after a tiger cub was found inside a house, officials said Friday. The incident took place in Khaparakhai village, adjacent to the Similipal National Park, in the Karanjia Forest Division, they said. The tiger cub was...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress Friday attempted to gherao the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) here as part of the party's nationwide protest demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar after a newspaper report claimed disquiet within the poll panel over the SIR of electoral...

Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik Friday blamed BJP MPs from Odisha for the passage of the amended mines law in Parliament, and asked the Chief Minister to pause its implementation as the legislation infringes the state's constitutional rights and would stymie its progress. The party...

Bhubaneswar/Jajpur: Odisha Vigilance officials Friday apprehended a Junior Revenue Assistant (JRA) of the Sub-Collector’s Office, Jajpur, while allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of `40,000 from an applicant for processing a land purchase permission file. The accused was identified as Prasanna Kumar Sahani, JRA in...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Friday suspended two senior officers after they remained in jail for more than 48 hours following their arrest in separate cases, officials said. The suspension of Arun Kumar Biswal, additional secretary in the Commerce and Transport Department, and Sujit Kumar Raula,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday said the state government will provide Rs 125 crore in financial assistance for the Rs 452-crore Integrated Power Electronics project being taken up in collaboration with IIT Bhubaneswar. In a post on X, Majhi said the project...

Bhubaneswar: The deadlock over the amended MMDR Act continued in the Odisha Assembly for the fourth consecutive day Friday, with BJD and Congress members staging protests in the well of the House and forcing Deputy Speaker Bhabani Shankar Bhoi to adjourn the proceedings till 4...

Nagoya: Indian shooters Suruchi Singh and Kamaljeet produced an excellent performance to fire their way to the gold medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the Asian Games here Friday, bouncing back in style after disappointing outings in their respective individual events....

Bhubaneswar: A deep depression lashed Odisha with heavy rain Friday, with at least 24 places recording more than 100 mm of rainfall, forcing authorities to close schools as rivers swelled, landslides occurred, waterlogging spread and houses were damaged. Around 10,000 people living in low-lying and...

Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik Friday demanded that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar must resign immediately and that the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls must be revisited. His remarks came amid a newspaper report of differences within the three-member Election Commission over several decisions...