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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday asked officers of the state police department to behave friendly with the people amid custodial torture allegations that surfaced from at least three police stations in the past few days. Majhi was speaking at an event...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police have busted a chain snatching racket and arrested six members of the gang, operating mostly in Khurda district, police said Thursday. Police nabbed two of the accused persons during a vehicle checking drive Wednesday night. When the faces of the accused...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Opposition BJD Thursday expressed displeasure over the manner in which the Centre approved the ambitious coastal highway project that allegedly differs from its original design and alignment. The party also claimed that the people of Odisha are unhappy over the exclusion of a...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday released a list of "top 24 failures" of the Mohan Charan Majhi-led BJP government in Odisha, which is set to complete two years in office June 12. However, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday described June 4, 2024,...

Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Central Election Committee Thursday announced its list of candidates for the upcoming biennial Rajya Sabha elections scheduled across several states, along with the by-election in Odisha. Gujarat will see a strong slate of candidates with Rajubhai Shukla, Mukeshbhai Rathwa,...

Bhubaneswar: Maharuf Ahmed Khan, who secured an All India Rank of 32 in the JEE Advanced 2026 Examination, gave up the opportunity to pursue Computer Science Engineering (CSE) at the prestigious IIT Bombay so that he could study with his twin brother Masroor, an AIR...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police is giving top priority to the security of the coastal region as the state has a 575 km long coastline, DGP Y B Khurania said Thursday. A one-day state-level seminar on coastal security was organised by Odisha Police Thursday. The DGP inaugurated...

Bhubaneswar: Eminent Odia litterateur, scholar and former IAS officer Dr Jagannath Prasad Das passed away at the age of 90. Widely regarded as a leading researcher of Odisha's art and culture, he was best known for leaving a career in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)...

Cuttack: An unidentified woman’s body was recovered from Kathajodi River beneath Trisulia Bridge Thursday morning. A team from the fire services department retrieved the body after it was spotted floating in the river. A bag and a pair of slippers believed to belong to the...

Puri: Odisha Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi today inaugurated the BRICS Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRRG) Technical Meeting in the holy city of Puri, reaffirming Odisha’s commitment to disaster resilience, climate adaptation and sustainable development while calling for enhanced international and inter-state cooperation...