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Jharbandh: A 50-year-old farmer was found dead in a pool of blood in his agricultural field at Dabha village under Jharbandh police limits in Baragada district. His family alleged that he had been murdered, police said Friday. The deceased, identified as Ramlal Kalet, had gone...

Kendrapada: A youth was arrested Friday for allegedly killing his 65-year-old maternal uncle with a spear following a family altercation in Odisha's Kendrapada district, police said. The incident took place at Mahasahani village within Aul police station limits in the district Thursday night. The deceased...

Baleshwar: Odisha Vigilance Friday nabbed a woman Odisha Revenue Services (ORS) officer while allegedly taking a bribe from a vendee to allow registration of a sale deed of a landed plot as ‘Bajyapti Stitiban’. The accused official, identified as Manisha Mishra, ORS, is presently posted...

Baripada: Odisha government has suspended the headmistress of a residential school in Mayurbhanj district for alleged dereliction of duty after a Class 10 student gave birth to a baby recently, an official said Friday. The incident took place at a Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV)...

Bhubaneswar: BJD president and former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to undertake a one-day tour of cyclone and flood-hit Ganjam district, including his own assembly constituency, Hinjili, Saturday, the party said. The BJD, in a post on X, said Patnaik is scheduled to...

Brahmapur: A 33-year-old farmer in Odisha's Ganjam district allegedly died by consuming pesticide following the loss of his standing crop in floods that hit the district in the last week of October, officials said Friday. The incident took place at Sadabrata Nuagaon village Thursday. The...

Nabarangpur/Nandahandi: In a shocking incident, miscreants allegedly dug up the grave of a 27-year-old woman, severed her head and took it away after performing rituals and sacrificing two chickens at a burial ground in Narsinghguda village under Nandahandi block in Nabarangpur district. The incident has...

By HARSHABARDHAN BEHERA/ SUBHASISH ROUT, OP Jajpur/Kalinganagar: A severe shortage of classrooms, dilapidated buildings and other infrastructure gaps have disrupted teaching at Panchayat High School in Salijanga under Danagadi block in Jajpur district’s Kalinganagar industrial area. The school has 197 students in Classes XI and...

Pottangi: Andhra Pradesh has secured votes from more than 1,100 residents of villages in Kotia under Pottangi block of Koraput district in its panchayat elections, despite strong opposition from the Koraput district administration and political parties in Odisha. Despite the deployment of Odisha Police along...

By NILADRI BIHARI DANDPAT, OP Baripada: A new species of scorpion has been discovered in the biodiversity-rich Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district, marking the first recorded presence of the Liocheles genus in Odisha. Named ‘Liocheles Similipalensis ’, the species was discovered through a...