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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday asked officers to spend at least one hour every month in areas where social evils such as witch-hunting still persist. She was addressing a state-level workshop on the prevention of witch-hunting and the prohibition of child marriage,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Tuesday said the long-pending Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh will be resolved amicably. The committee, constituted to address the long-pending dispute, held its first meeting Tuesday, which was attended by the Chief Secretary, the Development Commissioner,...

Berhampur: A court in Odisha's Ganjam district Tuesday sentenced a youth to life imprisonment for killing a 55-year-old man two years ago, a government counsel said. Ganjam District and Sessions Judge Asanta Kumar Das pronounced the judgment on 29-year-old Biju Behera for killing Juria Bisoi,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday flagged off 150 new ambulances under the Emergency Medical Ambulance Service in the state. The state government has procured as many as 428 new ambulances at a cost of Rs 111 crore, and the chief minister launched...

Malkangiri: Twenty-two Maoists Tuesday surrendered before police in Odisha's Malkangiri district, an officer said. The surrendered Maoists handed over nine firearms and 150 live rounds of ammunition, 20 kg of explosives, 13 IEDs, gelatin sticks, and other articles in the presence of Odisha DGP Y...

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police has seized several properties, including high-value vehicles, from an accused in the cheating case, an officer said Tuesday. The accused, identified as Rama Narayan Bal of Bhadrak district, was arrested October 29 this year on the...

Bhubaneswar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged his counterpart in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Virendra Kumar, to include 108 Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) communities of Odisha in the Central OBC list. The people categorised as Other Backward Class (OBC)...

Jharigaon: Farmers staged a blockade in three blocks of Nabarangpur district Monday to protest delays in opening of mandis, distress sale of paddy and maize, and a sharp cut in maize prices to Rs 600 per quintal. The agitation led by the Chashi Mahasangh affected...

Bhubaneswar: The CBI arrested another accused from Bihar in the sensational police SI recruitment scam case. The accused has been identified as Amit Bharati, who was apprehended from Bihar. According to sources, the arrest comes after extensive questioning to the prime suspects Shankar Prusty and...

Bhubaneswar: A court here Monday awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to three persons after convicting them of peddling brown sugar in the City in 2020. The 3rd Additional District Judge-cum-Special Judge, Bhubaneswar, Khurda held Sk Sagba, Tanmay Kumar Sahoo and Sk Fakir guilty in a...