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New Delhi: The Indian Super League (ISL) 2026-27 season will begin October 10 and run until next May, with the competition returning to a traditional home-and-away format under a new club-led structure. The upcoming campaign will feature 163 matches over eight months, with 13 teams...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday announced that his government would fill up 45,000 vacant teaching posts over the next three years. Addressing students at Secondary Board High School in Kataka on the occasion of National Teachers' Day, the CM asked the pupils...

Nabarangpur: For most teachers, reaching school is a routine part of the job. But for two teachers in Nabarangpur district, it involves a daily journey fraught with risk across the vast waters of the Indravati reservoir in a country boat, followed by long walks to...

SUBHAKANTA NAYAK, OP Hatadihi: A government-aided high school in Kendujhar district is functioning with a single teacher, who is teaching seven subjects, handling administrative duties and also conducting physical education classes amid an acute shortage of teachers. The Shalania High School in Hatadihi block, established...

Nandapur/Koraput: In a first, Koraput police arrested three farmers while they were allegedly tending cannabis plants in a 10-acre forest area near Disariguda and Lenziguda villages under Padua police station, officials said Friday. Addressing a press conference at the Koraput police headquarters Friday, Superintendent of...

Baleshwar: A history-sheeter was apprehended by Baleshwar police late Thursday night after sustaining a gunshot injury to his leg during an exchange of fire with police personnel. The injured accused, identified as Lokesh Singh, a native of Bihar, is undergoing treatment at the District Headquarters...

Nayagada: The driver of a private bus was killed, and more than 30 passengers were injured, seven of them seriously, after the vehicle crashed into an Arjun tree near Janhipa da Square on National Highway 57 in Baunsiapada under Itamati police limits in Nayagada district...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Legislative Assembly’s Departmentally Related Standing Committee-III, headed by Chairman Babu Singh, is on a visit to Uttar Pradesh from September 2 to September 7, 2026, to study the functioning of the state legislature and various parliamentary practices. The delegation includes committee members...

Bhubaneswar: A railway employee was subjected to horrific torture in Brahmapur RPF custody on suspicion of theft. The victim, identified as Soumya Ranjan Mishra, was allegedly beaten, had his hand and leg broken, and was given electric shocks to his private parts. Siddhanta Mishra, an...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha needs a stronger and more coordinated ecosystem for organ donation and transplantation, with greater public awareness and better support for patients and their families, Law, Works and Excise Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said Friday. Both the...