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Baripada: Mayurbhanj district administration has declared the places that President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit as "no drone zone and no flying zone" in view of the security measures for the VVIPs, an official order said Wednesday. Murmu will arrive at...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has sanctioned 755 new posts in various state-run medical colleges and hospitals, an official notification said. Odisha's Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling Tuesday said the decision was a far-sighted step towards improving the quality of medical education in the state....

Kendrapara: Kusunpur village under Rajnagar block of Kendrapada district, long plagued by saline water intrusion, water scarcity and low agricultural productivity, has been selected as Odisha’s only village under the Smart Village programme. The initiative, implemented by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),...

Rayagada: An elderly man from Rayagada district has accused his nephew of fraudulently declaring him dead in official records and usurping his share of ancestral land. Diudu Majhi, a resident of Talapadikhal village under Kashipur block, alleged that his nephew, Sani Majhi, manipulated revenue records...

Malkangiri: Security forces have recovered huge quantity of arms, ammunition, equipment, and other articles from a Maoist dump in the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border area, a police officer said Tuesday. On the basis of input provided by surrendered Maoists, an intensive search was conducted by District Voluntary...

Sundargarh: A man climbed a high-voltage electricity pole and threatened to end his life after his "girlfriend" refused to marry him, triggering a tense, hours-long standoff in Odisha's Sundargarh district, police said Tuesday. The incident took place in Budakata area under Kutra block, where the...

Aul(Kendrapara): A worker died of suspected suffocation while cleaning a well, and two others who tried to rescue him were in critical condition in Odisha's Kendrapara Tuesday. The deceased worker was identified as Parikhita Singh of Demal village. The two others who attempted to rescue...

Bargarh: The Odisha government has suspended three engineers of the Water Resources Department for alleged gross misconduct and dereliction in duty during the execution of an irrigation project in Bargarh district, officials said Tuesday. As per an order issued by the department, Madan Mohan Sethy,...

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: Odisha government has suspended an assistant revenue inspector for allegedly demanding a bribe for the issuance of caste certificates to students, an official said. The suspended inspector was posted at Sadar-IV RI Circle under Sadar Tahasil of Sambalpur. He was accused of demanding Rs...

Paralakhemundi: A healthcare initiative launched at the district headquarters hospital (DHH) in Paralakhemundi of Gajapati district to provide super-specialty services through doctors from Andhra Pradesh has come under scanner, amid allegations of exploitation of patients by the agents accompanying these physicians. The scheme was introduced...