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Kendrapara: The decomposed body of a 23-year-old Dalit man, who had been missing for over a week, was recovered from a bush in Odisha's Kendrapara district Friday, a day after a person was arrested on suspicion of murd*r, police said. Gouranga Sethi of Mahadeipatana village...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has initiated the process of rescuing five migrant workers of the state, following their claim that they have been stranded in Thailand, an official said Friday. The unskilled workers, hailing from various areas of Kendrapada district, went to the Southeast Asian...

Bhubaneswar: One person was killed and 16 others sustained injuries in two separate road accidents reported from Angul and Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha Friday. In the first incident, a helper of a private bus was killed and ten passengers were injured after the bus collided...

Angul/Baripada: An elephant, which remained confined inside a transport truck for nearly 36 hours after being tranquilised, will finally be shifted to the Kanchinda Wildlife Rescue Centre near Bangiriposi in Mayurbhanj district, forest officials said Friday. The prolonged delay in relocating the rogue elephant has...

Rayagada: Villagers staged a blockade on National Highway-326 near Kumbhikota village under Rayagada Sadar block Friday, protesting a reported prolonged drinking water shortage that disrupted daily life. The agitation began around 7 am, bringing traffic on the Rayagada-Koraput highway to a standstill. Men and women...

Bhubaneswar: Former BJD MP Debashish Samantaray Friday filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate for the Rajya Sabha by-election from Odisha. Samantaray, who joined the saffron party May 26 after quitting the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), was named the party's candidate by the BJP...

Bhadrak: Odisha Vigilance Thursday apprehended a junior assistant posted in the office of the District Education Officer (DEO) in Bhadrak while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a representative of a private school. The accused has been identified as Srikanta Kumar...

Baripada: Authorities of Odisha's Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) Friday shared a rare photograph of a melanistic tigress with her cubs. Sharing the picture on X, STR said, "Rare capture of melanistic tigress with her 3 melanistic cubs." According to STR officials, the cubs have adapted...

Patana: Tension flared in Begana village under Patana police limits in Keonjhar district Thursday after a Booth Level Officer (BLO) was allegedly manhandled and briefly detained by villagers protesting discrepancies in the voter list. The incident occurred during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of...

Bhubaneswar: From the classrooms of Bhubaneswar to the startup ecosystem of San Francisco, Pratham Batra’s journey is anything but ordinary. At 19, the young entrepreneur is already contributing to the future of robotics, positioning himself among a new generation of innovators driving the physical AI...