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By BIRENDRA KUMAR JHANKAR, OP Balangir: Bidya Bhushan Sanskrit Prathama-Madhyama School in Balangir town has classes from VI to X. The school once had more than 100 students, but the number gradually declined to 12 four years ago. However, not a single student has enrolled...

Digapahandi: An outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting has been reported for the past five days in Marthapur and Rajanapalli villages under Podamari panchayat and Dhimirapalli village under T Govindpur panchayat in Ganjam district’s Sanakhemundi block. One more person died Thursday morning, taking the reported death...

Kendrapada: A four-year-old girl suffered severe burn injuries after accidentally falling into a utensil containing boiling water at Jagannath Upper Primary School in Charigaon village under Nikirai police limits in Kendrapada district, police said Thursday. The victim, Debanshi Das of Kadaligorada Sahi, sustained serious burns...

New Delhi/Ganjam: A 16-year-old girl who went missing from her home in west Delhi’s Inderpuri earlier this month after becoming emotionally attached to a 32-year-old woman who had allegedly experienced domestic violence was traced to Odisha along with the woman, police said Thursday. The girl...

By ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Bhubaneswar: Satyapira Padhan, a physiotherapist and martial artist from Deypur village in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, has earned a Guinness World Records title by performing 183 full-extension, one-hand punch strikes while holding a 1-kg weight in one minute. Padhan’s record attempt was...

Chandbali: The state government has suspended Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer Sanjib Kumar Mohapatra, the Block Development Officer (BDO) of Chandbali in Bhadrak district. The Revenue and Disaster Management Department issued an order Wednesday stating that departmental disciplinary proceedings are under way against Mohapatra. As...

Papadahandi: Bodies of a 20-year-old married man and a minor girl were found hanging from a tree in a cashew orchard under Mokia panchayat of this block in Nabarangpur district Thursday. The bodies were found hanging from the same branch of the tree, hugging each...

Jayapur: A Class V student died allegedly after being assaulted by the head master (HM) of a government school in Koraput district. The deceased was identified as Ganga Jani, a student of PM-SHRI Upgraded High School at Gadapadar under Jayapur block. The matter came to...

Bhubaneswar: Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty surface winds, with speeds reaching 30-40 kmph, are very likely at one or two places in eight districts of Odisha, Regional Centre of India Meteorological Department said Thursday. The affected districts are Baleshwar, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Kataka,...

Bhadrak: A 54-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted in Odisha's Bhadrak district over suspicion of practising witchcraft, police said Thursday. The incident took place September 25 in Banitia village in the Bhadrak Rural police station area, but the woman lodged a complaint six days later Wednesday....