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Nagoya: Driven by Elavenil Valarivan's individual brilliance, India opened their Asian Games medal account with a couple of silvers in shooting, while locking an unexpected podium finish in Mixed Martial Arts and making an authoritative push towards a second successive women's cricket gold in Nagoya...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Sunday questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "sanskar" (values) over his alleged mockery of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying basic courtesy should not be reduced to political theatrics. Majhi made the remarks in a post on X while...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD's youth and student wings Sunday announced a two-day Assembly gherao from September 22 over errors in school textbooks for Classes I to VIII, demanding the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond. Biju Yuva Janata Dal president Chinmay Sahu and...

Nagoya: India launched their Asian Games men’s hockey title defence in emphatic fashion, decimating Indonesia 13-1 in their opening Pool A encounter Sunday. Eight different goal-scorers were on target for the Indian team, headlined by Dilpreet Singh's four-goal haul, as India put on a clinical...

Bhubaneswar: A man allegedly beat his wife to death over a domestic dispute and then "died by suicide" by hanging himself in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, police said. The incident took place on Saturday night in Dadaraghati village under Parjang police limits in the district. The...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has suspended a doctor of Brahmapur circle jail for allegedly facilitating a murder-accused's conversation with a witness from prison, officials said Sunday. Susanta Kumar Panigrahi, deployed as a special psychiatrist at Brahmapur circle jail, was suspended with immediate effect, as per...

Bhubaneswar: A technical team has examined the health condition of five rescued orangutan cubs, quarantined at the Nandankanan Zoological Park, a statement said Sunday. The team, comprising veterinary officers from the Delhi Zoo and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) at Dehradun, also advised that...

Nisshin (Japan): Shafali Verma slammed her maiden T20I century to power India into the final of women's cricket event at the Asian Games with a 114-run win over Bangladesh, Sunday. Opting to bat, India rode on Shafali's unbeaten 100 off 49 balls (9 sixes, 3...

Sambalpur: A wanted drug peddler was injured in an encounter with the police in Odisha's Sambalpur district Sunday, a senior officer said Sunday. As part of the 'Nasha Mukt Odisha Abhiyan', Odisha Police have intensified surveillance, night patrolling and enforcement against the illegal transportation, possession...

Bhubaneswar: Two people were killed after a truck crashed into a trailer on National Highway 16 near Totapada Chhak Sunday. The accident took place when the truck was travelling at high speed from Brahmapur toward Bhubaneswar and rammed into the trailer from behind. The truck's...