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Bargarh: In a novel protest against alleged irregularities in paddy procurement, farmers Monday heaped sacks of paddy on the premises of the District Collector’s office in Bargarh and ate pakhala while staging a sit-in. Later, police detained several farmers and removed the dumped paddy sacks....

Hatadihi: Day after getting thrashed with shoes during a mediation meeting, a primary school headmaster was suspended Monday following allegations of professional misconduct towards a female colleague in Keonjhar district. Harekrishna Behera, alias Babula, the headmaster of Mithigaon Upper Primary School, was placed on suspension...

Bhadrak: Days after a cricketer was shot dead following a suspected drunken brawl during a feast in Cuttack, a 24-year-old budding cricketer was hacked to death by assailants during Dola Melana festival at Gunthunia Bazaar under Bhadrak Town police limits late Sunday night. The deceased...

Kendrapara: Patkura police in Kendrapara district have detained a 17-year-old juvenile for his alleged involvement in the rape of a nine-year-old girl, police said. The incident reportedly occurred on the night of March 3 under Patkura police limits. Police stated that the juvenile had gone...

Chhatrapur: The Nikhila Odisha Anganwadi Karmi Sangh, at the conclusion of a two-day summit in Chhatrapur, warned it would hold a three-day protest outside the Parliament in New Delhi from April 21 to 23 if the government fails to meet its demands. The workers’ union,...

Jamankira/Keonjhar/Jatni/Rajgangpur: As many as eight persons, including a toddler, were killed in separate incidents of road mishaps in Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Khurda and Sundargarh districts Monday. In the first incident, three youths were killed after a truck collided head-on with their motorcycle near Dimirimunda Chhak under...

Berhampur: Family members of a migrant worker from Odisha, who died in his workplace in Qatar, appealed to the government to bring his body back to his village in Ganjam district. The Arab country has been affected by the West Asia conflict. An officer of...

Berhampur: A man was killed, and three others were injured in a blast at an ice-cream making unit in Odisha's Ganjam district Monday, police said. The incident took place at Talapatna village within Dharakote police station limits. The deceased has been identified as Bideshi Pradhan...

Bhubaneswar/Kendrapara: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy Monday asked the state government to inform the House about the details on the death of a farmer in Kendrapara district, allegedly due to harassment during the ongoing paddy procurement season. In a ruling, Padhy said that the minister...

Bhubaneswar: Fifty-four communal riots and seven mob lynching incidents were reported in Odisha between June 2024 and February 2026, as per a written statement by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi in the Assembly Monday. Replying to a written question of BJD legislator Goutam Buddha Das,...