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Purushottampur: Scores of women staged a road blockade in Ganjam district Saturday protesting an acute drinking water shortage in Bananai village under Bada kharida panchayat in Purushottampur block. Carrying empty pots and earthen pitchers, villagers blocked State Highway 31 connecting Aska and Humma, alleging that...

Paralakhemundi: Fresh reports of forced intrusion by Andhra Pradesh officials have surfaced once again in Gangabada panchayat under Rayagada block in Gajapati district, reigniting tensions along the border. In response to the situation, Rayagada tehsil officials and the nodal officer for census operations in Gajapati...

Jharsuguda: Police have busted an illegal factory producing counterfeit diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) in Jharsuguda district, arresting seven people and seizing a large quantity of manufacturing materials, officials said Saturday. Acting on intelligence under Operation Netra, a special police team led by a DSP raided...

Bhubaneswar: Five people were killed and 31 injured in separate road accidents in Odisha, police said Saturday. Three persons were killed and one injured when a truck hit two motorcycles and a scooter on National Highway-16 passing through Bhubaneswar Saturday evening, the police said. The...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police has seized nearly 3,500 litres of diesel and arrested one person on charge of clandestinely procuring materials from ships anchored in deep sea areas, an officer said Saturday. The seizure was part of a special enforcement operation conducted in the coastal jurisdiction...

Koraput: The inspector in charge of (IIC) of Dabugaon police station in Odisha's Nabarangpur district has been placed under suspension on charge of dereliction of duty in connection with the death of a man in police custody, an officer said Saturday. Earlier, three police personnel...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition BJD Saturday alleged that peace-loving Odisha has become a "disturbed state" in view of the rising crime graph under the BJP rule. Addressing a press conference here, BJD senior general secretary Lekhashree Samantsinghar claimed that incidents of murder and violence that have...

New Delhi/Balasore: India has successfully test-fired an Advanced Agni missile with the strategic ability to deploy multiple payloads to separate targets simultaneously -- a milestone that places the country among a select league of global powers. The testing of the missile with Multiple Independently Targeted...

Dhenkanal: A former police constable climbed a telecommunications tower near the Dhenkanal Town Police Station Saturday in an alleged suicide attempt, claiming he was unfairly dismissed from service and that repeated appeals for reinstatement had gone unheard. The man was identified as Rudra Narayan Das,...

Kendrapara: Concerns are growing in this district over suspected illegal migration via sea routes, with Mahakalapara block emerging as a focal point, local residents and officials said. According to earlier government identification, 1,649 suspected Bangladeshi migrants were found in the district in 2004. In the...