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Bhubaneswar: Residents of Kalahandi district have urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to take steps towards allocating permanent bauxite mines to the Lanjigarh-based Vedanta Company. The demand finds mentioned in a memorandum submitted to the District Magistrate and Collector Wednesday. Copies of the memorandum were...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his two-day Odisha visit during which he will inaugurate the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention Thursday. Modi arrived at the Biju Patnaik International Airport on a special flight from Andhra Pradesh Wednesday evening. He was received at the...

Bhubaneswar: IIT-Bhubaneswar signed an agreement with the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) Wednesday for collaborative research in the field of road engineering. The major thrust areas of research are traffic and transportation engineering, pavement engineering, road safety and other allied civil engineering areas such as...

Phulbani: Security personnel seized a country-made gun and Maoist items during combing operations in Odisha's Kandhamal and Rayagada districts, police said Wednesday. A joint squad of Kandhamal police, CRPF and the special operations group found the items while carrying out combing operations in different forest...

Berhampur: Berhampur's BJP MP Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy was acquitted in three more cases of cheating by a special court in Odisha's Ganjam district Wednesday due to lack of evidence. A total of five cases were registered at the Baidyanathpur and Golanthara police stations in the...

Bhubaneswar: Brijendra Pratap Singh Wednesday took charge as the chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) at its corporate office here. Prior to joining NALCO, Singh was director-in-charge of Burnpur and Durgapur Steel Plant and a member of the board of SAIL, a...

Baripada: A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl in 2019. Mayurbhanj district POCSO court special judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on convict Chaitan Prasad Singh, special public...

Puri: As the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas began in Bhubaneswar Wednesday, Puri’s beaches drew attention with unique sculptures crafted from waste materials as part of the beach festival.  These artworks have become a major attraction for visitors, including NRIs attending the event. The Puri Niladri...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a two-day visit to Meghalaya and Odisha from Thursday to attend different events, according to an official statement. On the first day, she will attend the golden jubilee celebration of the ICAR Research Complex for the North-Eastern...

Bhubaneswar: A group of bike-borne miscreants hacked a man to death near the Rasulgarh Flyover under Mancheswar police limits in Bhubaneswar Wednesday, police said. The police have detained three suspects and are searching for two main accused. This daylight murder has rocked Bhubaneswar as the...