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Puri: The final electoral roll for Puri district under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 was published Monday, with 13,11,876 voters listed across six Assembly constituencies and 1,823 polling booths. District Collector and District Election Officer Dibyajyoti Parida published the final roll at a meeting...

Tokai City (Japan): Defending champions Indian men's and women's kabaddi teams made winning starts to their Asian Games campaign with thumping victories over Japan and Bangladesh in their respective opening matches, Monday. Last edition's gold-medallist Indian men's team began its title defence with a resounding...

Bhubaneswar: Five people were injured after a dispute over a social media live video escalated into a clash near a Ganesh Puja pandal in Ghatikia under Bharatpur police limits late Sunday night. Two rounds of blank firing were also reported during the confrontation. The incident...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: The seventh session of the 17th Odisha Legislative Assembly (Monsoon Session) begins Tuesday, with the Opposition gearing up to corner the government over the MMDR Amendment Act, flood management, school textbook errors, law and order, agrarian distress, and the trafficking of...

Kendujhar: A family in Odisha's Kendujhar district allegedly turned to two practitioners of witchcraft in a futile attempt to revive a man who had died after being bitten by a venomous snake, sources said. Sushil Kumar Bhitiria of Bhandaridihi village under the Ghasipura police limits...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to receive heavy rainfall from Tuesday as a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal is expected to strengthen and intensify into a deep depression in the coming days, the Regional Centre of the India Meteorological Department said Monday. The weather...

Kataka: The Odisha Police arrested a senior superintendent of a jail in Kataka district for allegedly forging documents in connection with the escape of two murder accused last year, an officer said Monday. Choudwar Circle Jail senior superintendent Sujit Kumar Raula was apprehended from his...

Bhubaneswar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Saurav Das is in Bhubaneswar Monday to meet protesters and those on hunger strike demonstrating against alleged irregularities in school textbooks. Das visited a government primary school in BJB Nagar in Bhubaneswar as part of CJP’s “School Theek Karo”...

Bhubaneswar: The last rites of seven members of a Bhubaneswar family, who died after being swept away by a rain-swollen drain in Madhya Pradesh, were performed at Swargadwar in Puri early Monday, family members said. The mortal remains of the seven persons from MP's Gadhakana...

Balangir: A forester was found hanging at staff quarters in Odisha’s Balangir district, prompting a police investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. According to reports, the deceased was identified as Byasadev Sahu, who was posted as a forester at the Thikadarpada Range. His body...