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Malkangiri: A large number of live turtles were seized by the Motu Forest department in Kalimela block of Malkangiri district, officials said. Based on a tip-off regarding interstate turtle smuggling, forest officials set up a vehicle checkpoint at the Motu outpost early Friday morning. After...

Malkangiri: Security forces have seized a Maoist dump in the Chitrakonda block of Malkangiri district, officials confirmed Friday. According to sources, personnel from the 177 Battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF), stationed at the Ghanabeda and Gurusetu camps in Swabhiman Anchal of Malkangiri, launched...

Bhubaneswar: Heatwave conditions scorched Odisha Friday, with the mercury crossing 40 degree Celsius in 16 places, according to the IMD. The industrial town of Jharsuguda was the hottest place in the state, recording a temperature of 44.8 degree Celsius. Bolangir and Boudh recorded 44.5 degree...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has established 46 new civil judge courts in different parts of the state, officials said Friday. Five courts have been set up in Balasore district, while four such courts were established in Sambalpur, Mayurbhanj and Sundargarh districts, three in Jajpur, Kendrapara, Kandhamal...

Rourkela: Two miscreants, who were allegedly fleeing after looting an eatery, were injured in a gunfight with the police in Odisha's Rourkela, an officer said Friday. They were hospitalised and stated to be out of danger. The incident took place when four miscreants were fleeing...

Bhadrak: Odisha's Bhadrak district administration Friday announced a Rs 6 lakh compensation for the next of kin of a person who died after being stuck inside an old elevator in Bhadrak. While announcing the ex gratia, district collector Dillip Routrai directed the Road and Building...

Baripada: A POCSO court here in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Friday sentenced one person to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 16-year-old girl in 2017. The special court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict Mangal Soren...

Kendrapara/Rajnagar: Over 8 million endangered Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings have emerged from their eggs at the mass nesting sites of Nasi-2 in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, marking the culmination of the annual nesting season of the marine species. Sudarshan Gopinath Yadav, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO)...

Jajpur: A day after a six-year-old boy went missing, his body was recovered from an abandoned stone quarry in Jajpur district Thursday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Shivu Rout, son of Bauribandhu Rout of Chargotha village under Jenapur police limits, they said....

Rourkela: A 62-yearold man was allegedly beaten to death by his son Thursday at IDL Gopabandhunagar area under Tangarpali police limits in Rourkela after he refused to give Rs 200, police said. The deceased, identified as Gagan Bihari Malla, was attacked inside his betel shop....