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Bhubaneswar: A condolence meeting was organised to pay tribute to renowned photojournalist Raghu Rai, one of the country’s most celebrated visual storytellers, who chronicled modern India. Rai died at a private hospital in New Delhi early Sunday. He was 83. The event took place at...

Bhubaneswar: Amid reports of procedural violation on document registration process, the Revenue and Disaster Management department has directed all registering authorities to ensure strict compliance with legal provisions related to document registration. The government has taken note of a growing number of instances where registration...

Bhubaneswar: A group of job aspirants has appealed to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday, seeking early commencement of the application process for librarian posts announced under OSSC Specialist CGL 2025 recruitment. In a memorandum to the CM, the candidates stated that the indicative advertisement...

Basudevpur: Angry residents ransacked the Basudevpur community health centre (CHC) in Bhadrak district following the death of a 14-year-old boy, allegedly due to a wrongly administered injection. The deceased was identified as Mukesh Barik, son of Debakant Barik and a student of Class IX of...

Betnoti/Sundargarh: Two teachers engaged in Census work died of reported sunstroke in separate incidents in the state Sunday. In Mayurbhanj district, Rajkapur Hembram, a teacher of Baidyanath High School at Purinda Kakharua under Betnoti block, died Sunday evening while undergoing treatment at PRM Medical College...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the special session of the Odisha Assembly convened by the state's BJP government to discuss women's participation in politics April 30, Opposition BJD Sunday demanded immediate implementation of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adiniyam Bill passed in 2023. The BJD, which had fully...

Bhubaneswar: The industrial town of Jharsuguda was the hottest place in Odisha Sunday at 44.8 degrees Celsius, even as heatwave conditions swept through the western region of the state, IMD said. Seven places in Western Odisha recorded temperatures of 43 degrees Celsius and above. Jharsuguda...

Kendrapara: Burnt body of a newly married woman was found near her house in Odisha’s Kendrapara district Sunday. Family members alleged that her in-laws "killed her after setting her on fire using kerosene." The victim, identified as Tapoi Mandal (28), was found dead near her...

Jajpur: Odisha Police in Jajpur district have arrested a former banking correspondent of a nationalised bank for allegedly misappropriating around Rs 27 lakh of depositors' money, officials said Sunday. The accused has been identified as Prakash Rana, a resident of Abhayapur in the district's Dharmasala...

Berhampur: A man was allegedly stabbed to death during a marriage procession in Odisha's Ganjam district over playing a particular music demanded by him, police said Sunday. The deceased was identified as Akash Jena (25), the younger brother of the groom, Rinku Jena. The incident...