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Keonjhar: A 60-year old man from Juang tribal community was killed in an elephant attack in the forested region of Kulanga Balangisahi under the Bimala forest beat of Telkoi range in Keonjhar district. The deceased has been identified as Dhaneshwar Juang, a resident of Kulanga...

Bhadrak: Tension gripped Rajpur village under Bhadrak Rural police limits after villagers demolished a co-villager’s house, accusing him of practicing sorcery and black magic. According to reports, the man had left the main village nearly a decade ago and built a house on farmland near...

ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: The naming of the recently constructed Jagannath Temple at Digha as ‘Jagannath Dham’ by the West Bengal government seems not to have made any dent in the devotion of pilgrims from the neighbouring state who participated in large numbers at this...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will personally hear public grievances Monday (June 30) from 10:30am onwards at Unit-2, Ashok Nagar here. According to a release from the Department of General Administration and Public Grievances, the session will be held on the premises of the...

Bhubaneswar: To ensure dignified transportation of the dead to their homes or cremation grounds and ease the emotional and financial burden on bereaved families, the state government will soon launch free hearse service ‘109’, whose blueprint is scheduled to be finalised July 2, officials in...

Chennai: Hockey Association of Odisha and Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu made history Friday by being crowned champions in the women's and men's sections, respectively, of the 1st Hockey India Masters Cup 2025. Odisha defeated Hockey Punjab in the women's section while Tamil Nadu got...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD Friday condemned the alleged police excess against journalists, who were officially invited to Puri by the Odisha government to cover Rath Yatra. BJD spokesperson Lenin Mohanty, in a statement, said that the government had arranged a bus to take accredited working journalists...

Berhampur: Like in previous years, the chariot of Lord Jagannath's sister Subhadra was pulled by women at Gosaninuagaon in Odisha's Berhampur on Rath Yatra Friday. However, the chariots of Lord Jagannath and Lord Balabhadra were pulled by male devotees, adhering to traditional customs. Berhampur is...

Angul: The sacred festival of Rath Yatra was celebrated with great devotion and traditional splendour at Jagannath Temple in Dev Bhumi, Jindal Nagar, Angul. The yatra drew thousands of devotees to witness the divine journey of the Chaturdha Murti -- Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Devi...

Puri: Thousands of people pulled the ropes attached with chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings on a road from near the 12th-century shrine in Puri towards Shree Gundicha temple, around 2.6 km away, as the main part of Rath Yatra festival began Friday. Odisha...