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Papadahandi: A 60-year-old man was allegedly killed in an axe attack at Kadamguda village under Sirsi gram panchayat in Papadahandi block of Nabarangpur district, Friday. Police have arrested the accused, identified as Udayanath Amanatya alias Sukru. The deceased was identified as Mundara Pujari, a resident...

Bhubaneswar: A month after landslides disrupted rail connectivity on the Koraput-Kirandul route, East Coast Railway (ECoR) completed restoration work at all three affected locations Thurs day night, paving the way for the resumption of goods train movement. Train services on the section had remained suspended...

Baragada: A seven-year-old boy was killed in Karnapa village under Bijepur police station limits of Baragada district after an argument over fishing, police said, adding that a 13-year-old boy is being questioned in connection with the death. The body of the victim, Ashish Bhue, son...

Umarkot: The naked and mutilated body of a woman was found in a reserved forest beside a canal in Nabarangpur district Friday, with police suspecting that she was murdered. The body was discovered near Chikalpadar in Umarkot block. The woman is believed to be more...

SARAT KUMAR DHAL, OP Pottangi: Political tension mounted along the disputed Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border Friday after a 16-member delegation from Biju Janata Dal (BJD) confronted election campaign workers of a political party from Andhra Pradesh in the border territory of Kotia gram panchayat. The standoff...

Nabarangpur: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has intervened in an alleged case of social boycott involving the family of former Nabarangpur MLA Sadasiva Pradhani, directing the district collector to investigate the matter and submit an action-taken report (ATR) within four weeks. The complaint was...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approached the Supreme Court over Andhra Pradesh’s move to conduct local body elections in parts of the disputed Kotia region, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said Friday. Pujari said the Koraput Collector has filed a petition against the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Friday put all districts on high alert as a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by October 26, officials said. India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its latest bulletin, said the low-pressure area formed...

Bhubaneswar/Jajpur: An Odisha government engineer was arrested Friday after searches at seven locations unearthed three multi-storey buildings, a farmhouse, three high-value plots and nearly 750 grams of gold, officials said. Tapan Sethi, an assistant executive engineer (AEE) in the Roads and Buildings Department in Badachana...

Jajpur: A 62-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Odisha's Jajpur district Friday, officials said. The incident took place around 5.30 am in Bandhapalli village in Badachana police station area when Jagannath Rout came out of his house to go to...