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Bhabanipatana: A Class IX student of Vikas Residential School in Bhabanipatana has built a two-seat solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) using scrap materials salvaged from a garage. Combining lessons in energy, engineering and hands-on learning, Swaraj Satapathy completed the vehicle in about three months and named...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: The seventh session of the 17th Odisha Legislative Assembly (Monsoon Session) begins Tuesday, with the Opposition gearing up to corner the government over the MMDR Amendment Act, flood management, school textbook errors, law and order, agrarian distress, and the trafficking of...

RABINARAYAN JENA, OP Bhubaneswar: Around 78 private hospitals and nursing homes in the state capital are facing the threat of losing their empanelment under the Ayushman Bharat scheme over alleged land-use and building plan violations. The State Health Assurance Society (SHAS) issued showcause notices to...

G Udayagiri: The Kalinga Ghat stretch on National Highway 157 along the Kandhamal-Ganjam border will remain closed for two days, September 23 and 24, in view of the possibility of a cyclone bringing heavy to very heavy rain and strong winds, thereby increasing risk of...

Dhamnagar: Dhamnagar Notified Area Council (NAC) Executive Officer Santosh Kumar Nayak was suspended over allegations of misuse of Form-7 and onetime passwords (OTPs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Nayak was suspended Monday. The suspension was ordered by the Additional Chief...

Baisinga: Police have detained a 13-year-old boy after he allegedly took a six-year-old girl, a relative, into a nearby forest and sexually assaulted her in Baisinga police station area of Mayurbhanj district. According to the complaint, the girl was playing outside her house Sunday evening...

Bhubaneswar: A state-level protest by more than 500 medical and sales representatives was held in Bhubaneswar Monday over job security, service conditions and other employment-related demands. The protest was organised by the Odisha Sales Representatives Union (OSRU) at the call of the Federation of Medical...

Brahmapur:  Two 17-year-old boys were detained in Odisha's Ganjam district for allegedly murdering a youth following an altercation over a request for matchsticks to light a cigarette, police said Monday. Ayushman Tripathy alias Suman, 18, was allegedly assaulted by the two boys September 14 after...

Baripada: Two persons died when their motorcycle was hit by a speeding vehicle in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Monday, police said. The accident took place near Kaliashol village under Suliapada block of the district. The deceased have been identified as Rahul Naik and Raju Naik, residents...

Astaranga: A mangrove plantation drive and community awareness programme was recently held along the Devi river mouth wetlands in Puri district’s Astaranga block. Over 55 local residents—including women, fishermen, youth, and leaders from Alasa hi and Jhadling Gram Panchayats—joined Odisha Environmental Society (OES) members to...