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Bhubaneswar: At least four workers from Odisha were killed and four others injured in the explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Telangana, an officer said Wednesday. So far, at least 36 people were killed and several others injured in the powerful blast at a pharmaceutical...

Bhubaneswar: The assault on BMC Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo, a senior OAS officer, Monday, has not only drawn widespread condemnations but also raised serious concern over the safety of on-duty public officials. Immediately after the incident, the Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) Association called for a...

Keonjhar: At least three persons were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain while extracting manganese illegally from a mine in Odisha's Keonjhar district, police said Wednesday. The incident took place at a manganese mine near Bichakundi Dalpahar under Joda police limits when some...

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) loaded a total of 68.19 million tonnes of freight from April to June 2025, compared to 62.2 million tonnes during the same period last year, a growth of 9.69 per cent, an official said. In the month of June...

Bolangir: A youth was killed by his childhood friend over a triangular love affair in Odisha's Bolangir district, police said. The deceased has been identified as Kunja Majhi, a resident of Dumerchuan village in Kantabanji area of the district. Two persons have been apprehended in...

Deogarh: In a grim reminder of caste-based discrimination, the body of an 80-year-old woman lay untouched for nearly three hours in Jaraikela village under Tileibani block of Odisha’s Deogarh district, after members of her caste community refused to perform her last rites because she had...

Joda: Inordinate delay in Joda-Bamebari road works has severely hit development in the mineral-rich Joda region of Keonjhar district. For the past eight years, work on the expansion and construction of the Joda-Bamebari section of State Highway 2 has not begun. Due to the poor...

Rourkela: In what could enhance both robotic and human mission planning on Mars and deepen understanding of its habitability, a collaborative research by scientists from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, UAE University and Sun Yat-sen University in China have examined how spinning dust devils,...

Baripada: A propylene gas leak from a tanker near the Odisha–Jharkhand border Tuesday triggered panic and paralysed movement on National Highway 49, prompting the imposition of Section 144 to ensure public safety. The incident occurred near the Jio petrol pump at Jamshola in Mayurbhanj district....

Govindpali/Khairaput: Two farm labourers drowned in a swollen river in Malkangiri district Monday after being swept away by strong currents while returning from a paddy field. The deceased were identifi ed as Sampati Laba Dora, 46, and Shukri Pataka, 40, residents of Naliguda and Patakaguda...