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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...

Kendujhar: A family in Odisha's Kendujhar district allegedly turned to two practitioners of witchcraft in a futile attempt to revive a man who had died after being bitten by a venomous snake, sources said. Sushil Kumar Bhitiria of Bhandaridihi village under the Ghasipura police limits...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to receive heavy rainfall from Tuesday as a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal is expected to strengthen and intensify into a deep depression in the coming days, the Regional Centre of the India Meteorological Department said Monday. The weather...

Kataka: The Odisha Police arrested a senior superintendent of a jail in Kataka district for allegedly forging documents in connection with the escape of two murder accused last year, an officer said Monday. Choudwar Circle Jail senior superintendent Sujit Kumar Raula was apprehended from his...

Bhubaneswar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Saurav Das is in Bhubaneswar Monday to meet protesters and those on hunger strike demonstrating against alleged irregularities in school textbooks. Das visited a government primary school in BJB Nagar in Bhubaneswar as part of CJP’s “School Theek Karo”...

Bhubaneswar: The last rites of seven members of a Bhubaneswar family, who died after being swept away by a rain-swollen drain in Madhya Pradesh, were performed at Swargadwar in Puri early Monday, family members said. The mortal remains of the seven persons from MP's Gadhakana...

Balangir: A forester was found hanging at staff quarters in Odisha’s Balangir district, prompting a police investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. According to reports, the deceased was identified as Byasadev Sahu, who was posted as a forester at the Thikadarpada Range. His body...

Kakamigahara: The troika of destructive young forward Deepika Sehrawat, Rutuja Dadaso Pisal and Navneet Kaur fired a hat-trick each as the Indian women's hockey team hammered Indonesia 17-1 to register its second consecutive Pool B win at the Asian Games in Kakamigahara Monday. The 22-year-old...

DINESH MISHRA, OP Raurkela: The state government has implemented several schemes to improve elementary education, but poor infrastructure and staffing deficiencies continue to affect schools. One such example is the Government Primary School (Durgapur-B) at Leprosy Colony of the Malgodown slum under Ward 20 of...

DWARKA PRASAD PATNAIK, OP Chhatrapur: Ganjam district cyber police have busted a racket allegedly involved in cheating people through online betting apps and have arrested three persons, officials said Sunday. The accused were identified as Shatrughna Kumar Pandey of Jharkhand, Dharmadas Manikpuri of Chhattisgarh and...