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Bhanjanagar: A 40-year-old farmer, identified as Bikram Nayak of Belatuni village, was dragged from his house veranda and trampled to death by a herd of elephants late Friday night. The incident occurred under the Ujagada range in the Ghumusar North forest division of Ganjam district,...

Chhatrapur: An all-department cyclone preparatory meeting, led by the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Pramod Kumar Prusty, was conducted through video conferencing Saturday. The meeting was held in the presence of ADM Debdutta Panda, Chhatrapur Sub-Collector Sibasish Baral, District Emergency Officer Abhishek Sahu and other officials...

Jeypore: A Jeypore-based independent treasury clerk was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe to facilitate pension and arrear payments, officials said Saturday. Harishchandra Mohapatra, a clerk at the Jeypore settlement office, was apprehended by the Koraput district Vigilance team while taking Rs 47,000 from an...

Sunabeda: A youth was electrocuted Saturday after coming in contact with a live wire set up as a trap to poach wild animals near the Aligaon coffee farm under the Semiliguda police limits of Koraput district. The deceased was identified as Sanjay Badnaik, son of...

Koraput: While Deomali, Odisha’s highest peak, continues to attract nature lovers and adventure tourists, it is the effort of local youth entrepreneurs that has significantly boosted tourism in the region in recent years. However, local youth entrepreneurs say a recent ban on private tent setups...

Bhubaneswar: The Airport Police have taken into custody the Deputy General Manager (DGM) of Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) for allegedly deceiving a woman by promising marriage, a case of fraud that has raised serious concerns over personal misconduct within the airport administration. The accused...

Ganjam: A 24-year-old NEET aspirant from Odisha was found dead in his hostel room in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar Saturday, police said. The deceased student, identified as Roshan Kumar Patro (24), a resident of Abhayapur in Ganjam district, Odisha, had been preparing for the NEET exam...

Bhubaneswar: Stressing the urgency of addressing global environmental challenges, speakers at the 44th Foundation Day and Award Ceremony of the Orissa Environmental Society (OES), held in the city Saturday, called for collective action to protect and preserve nature. The event was attended by OES working...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress Saturday accused the BJP government of being anti-tribal and anti-Scheduled Caste (SC), claiming that lakhs of job cardholders from these communities are being denied employment under the MGNREGA scheme. Addressing a press conference at Congress Bhawan here, spokesperson Rajani Kumar Mohanty...

New Delhi: India’s most celebrated astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar, who passed away in May, was Saturday selected for the Vigyan Ratna Puraskar. Narlikar challenged the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe was created in a single moment. He, along with British astronomer Fred Hoyle,...