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Bhubaneswar/Bolangir: Odisha Vigilance Wednesday arrested a senior tax official after he was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe from a businessman for waiving the penalty imposed on him for non-payment of professional tax for three financial years. The accused official, Umakanta Mahakur, is currently posted...

Malkangiri: Odisha Police has seized ganja worth over Rs 16 crore in Odisha's Malkangiri district in the past 24 hours, and three drug peddlers have been arrested, officials said. A total of 1,650 kg ganja worth Rs 16.50 crore was seized from three areas in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari Wednesday said the state was largely spared from the severe impact of cyclonic storm 'Montha', though 33 blocks and 11 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) have so far been affected. The minister also said that Gajapati's Goshani...

Berhampur: A special vigilance court in Berhampur Wednesday granted conditional bail to 114 candidates arrested for their alleged involvement in a recruitment scam for the post of police sub-inspector (SI). Special vigilance judge Gynendra Kumar Barik allowed bail on a bond of Rs 50,000 with...

Berhampur: Odisha Police has arrested another person in connection with the murder of senior advocate and BJP leader Pitabash Panda, taking the total arrests in the case to 14. Sunya Chandra Das (61), a resident of Khodasing, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly sheltering the contract...

Cuttack: Fifteen students of Ravenshaw University were admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack Wednesday due to suspected food poisoning, an official said. The students, who were vomiting, claimed that they fell ill after drinking water from a purifier at the East Hostel,...

Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Kolkata Police Wednesday arrested two persons from neighbouring Odisha for their alleged involvement in the murder of a young man in a hotel in the metropolis, an officer said. The two accused, identified as Shashikant Behera and Santosh Behera, were nabbed from Sambalpur. "We...

Bhubaneswar: Seven people were arrested with brown sugar in Odisha's Khurda district, police said Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, a raid was conducted at a house in Daleisahi village in the Bolagarh police station area, they said. A total of 314.97 grams of brown sugar...

Balasore: At least two persons were killed and seven others were injured, two of them seriously, when a passenger bus hit a truck parked on the roadside in Odisha's Balasore district early Wednesday, police said. The accident took place on National Highway 60 in the...

Keonjhar: Nine-year-old girl Baishnavi Gupta of this district has brought laurels to the state by winning a gold medal in the junior category of the 16th National Kudo Championship held in Surat, Gujarat, recently. The remarkable success of Baishnavi, a student of Class IV of...