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Nuapada: The home voting process for the Nuapada Assembly by-election began Thursday. A total of 15 polling teams have been deployed for the exercise. Each team comprises two polling officers, one micro observer, one security personnel and one videographer. Altogether, 251 voters, including those aged...

Paikamal: A farmer was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live electric cable while spraying pesticide on his farmland at Bukuramunda village under this block in Bargarh district Thursday. The deceased was identified as Rabi Sahu, 34, in the village. According to sources, Sahu...

Chhatrapur: Panic gripped villages adjoining Chhatrapur after residents reported spotting pugmarks in a paddy field that they believe may belong to a tiger. Villagers in Laxmipur panchayat under Chhatrapur block said they were returning from a temple when they noticed the pugmarks along a route...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of hitting the campaign trail for the by-poll, opposition BJD president Naveen Patnaik Thursday shared a message saying that 'Nuapada will win', while his rival political parties like BJP and Congress claimed that the results would be one-sided in their favour. Patnaik, who...

Bhubaneswar: A court here Thursday sentenced four persons to 20 years rigorous imprisonment after convicting them in a drugs case. The court has also ordered the four - Sk Irfan, Sk Samir, Sayed Imtiyaz and Ratiranjan Rout - to pay a fine of Rs 1...

Bhubaneswar: The Centre has agreed to bear the entire expenditure for the construction of 92 railway overbridges across Odisha, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said Thursday. A statement released by the CMO said that though it was earlier decided that both the state government and...

Sambalpur: A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Oil India Ltd here for establishing a compressed bio-gas (CBG) plant in the western Odisha town. The agreement is an important step to produce energy from waste coming out of homes,...

Navi Mumbai: Phoebe Litchfield raced to a majestic hundred while Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner scored half-centuries as Australia put on a brilliant display of power hitting before they were all out for 338 against India in the second semifinal of the ICC Women's ODI...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar police were able to prevent a burglary and insurance fraud due to an alert citizen and arrested 13 people when they were preparing to commit the crime, an officer said Thursday. According to police, one Santosh Kumar Moharana has been running a...

Puri: Devotees will be allowed to enter the Shree Jagannath Temple here only through the Singhadwar (Lion's gate) during the 'Panchuka' celebrations, an official said Thursday. This was decided at the coordination meeting between the civil administration and police ahead of the 'Panchuka' (the last...