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Baripada: The Special Judge, Vigilance Court in Baripada Thursday found four individuals, including three employees of an urban cooperative bank, guilty of committing bank loan fraud and sentenced them to undergo three years of rigorous imprisonment (RI). “Asutosh Mohanty, Former Branch Manager (disengaged), Baripada Urban...

Bargaon: A 47-year-old man from Birshu village in Sundargarh district allegedly died of sunstroke Thursday, police said. The deceased was identified as Sambu Majhi. Police registered a case of unnatural death and launched an investigation. According to reports, Majhi was working as a labourer at...

Boudh: Odisha vigilance officers Thursday seized a leopard skin and arrested two persons involved in the illegal trade of body parts of wild animals, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, the forest wing of the vigilance department conducted a surprise raid at Karanjkata village under...

Bhubaneswar: Thunderstorms accompanied by rain brought relief from prevailing heatwave conditions across several districts of Odisha Thursday, even as seven towns continued to record temperatures above 40 degree Celsius. Thunderstorms, rain and lightning were reported in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sundargarh, Angul, Phulbani, Boudh and Rourkela during...

Keonjhar: The Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) has held bank officials responsible for negligence in the shocking Keonjhar skeleton incident, in which Jitu Munda carried his sister Kalara Munda’s remains to the bank to secure the release of her savings. On Thursday, Northern RDC Sangram Keshari...

Bargarh: The Orissa High Court has issued a significant directive aimed at resolving long-standing grievances in the state’s paddy procurement system. In a ruling on writ petition No. 9562/2026, filed by 14 farmers from Bargarh district, the court ordered the district collector to examine pending...

Bonai: Security forces killed a wanted Maoist commander during an encounter in a forested area along the Odisha–Jharkhand border Wednesday, officials said. Weapons and Maoist materials were recovered from the site. The deceased has been identified as Israel Purti, also known as Amrit (32), a...

Gudvella: Police in Bolangir district Wednesday recovered the body of a 27-year-old junior engineer (JE) from his rented accommodation in Gudvella, officials said. The deceased, identified as Prabir Behera of Kanikapada in Jajpur’s Mangalapur police station area, was working as a junior engineer on a...

Bhawanipatna: A mild earthquake measuring 4.1 was felt in several places of Odisha's Kalahandi district Wednesday evening, officials said. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the tremor was recorded at 7.42 pm. Its epicentre was located at a latitude of 19.729 degrees North and...

Angul: A female havildar, who had filed a harassment complaint against two police officers, staged a hunger strike before the office of the superintendent of police (SP), Angul, Wednesday. After filing the complaint against the two officers earlier this month, the havildar had also sent...