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Nagoya: India's Paralympic and World champion Sumit Antil added another feather to his cap as he defended his Asian Para Games gold medal by clinching the top prize in the Men’s Javelin Throw F42–F44/F61–F64 at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium Friday. Antil won...

Brahmapur: Odisha Police has arrested 470 people for gambling and seized around Rs 12.65 lakh during a crackdown in Ganjam and Brahmapur police districts ahead of Kumar Purnima, a festival celebrated by youths, police said Friday. On Wednesday night, police arrested 167 people and seized...

Baleshwar: Following the directions of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Bhakta Charan Das, a party fact-finding team visited Jaleswar in Baleshwar district Friday to investigate the rape and murder of a minor girl whose decomposed body was recovered Thursday. According to an office order...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday held discussions with top executives of South Korean steel major POSCO and domestic steelmaker JSW Group on the proposed 6 MTPA greenfield steel plant in the state. The meeting took place in Mumbai, where CM Majhi is...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Uniformed Services Staff Selection Commission (OUSSSC) announced Friday a major recruitment drive to fill as many as 7,268 below-graduate-level vacancies across the state, including roles for civil constables, firefighters, traffic constables, and emergency drivers. Online registration and application submission started October 23 and...

 Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to undertake a two-hour visit to Odisha October 25 to inaugurate the Reserve Bank of India's Rs 169-crore data centre on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, officials said Friday. According to the tentative itinerary shared by the chief secretary's...

Bhubaneswar: A low-pressure area has formed over the Bay of Bengal Friday and is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by October 26, according to an IMD forecast that prompted the Odisha government to start taking precautionary measures. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed...

Malkangiri: At least one person was killed and more than 10 others were injured after a DJ vehicle overturned near Mathili in Odisha’s Malkangiri district Friday morning. According to source, the accident took place around 7 am near Anlajodi when a front tyre of the...

Two critical security flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers a large number of websites worldwide, could allow hackers to break into vulnerable servers without logging in. Attackers could run harmful programs remotely, steal sensitive information and potentially compromise websites. Dubbed ‘PHP2Shell’, the flaws...

PITAMBAR SAHU, OP Amarpali: A government upper primary (UP) school in Subarnapur district operating on private land has been struggling with a shortage of classrooms, vacancy of teachers and absence of other essential infrastructure such as a boundary wall and a kitchen. Bisalpali Government Upper...