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Keonjhar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday launched 71 developmental projects worth Rs 1,900 crore, including a Rs 50 crore Regional Plant Resource Centre (RPRC) in the mineral-rich Keonjhar district. Majhi, who was on tour to his native district, laid foundation stones of 35...

Bhawanipatna: Miscreants torched three vehicles of a local contractor and put up fake Maoist posters in Kalahandi district, police said Tuesday. According to the police, miscreants set fire to three vehicles parked in the warehouse of the contractor, located on the Rupra Road Chatamahal Road,...

Bhubaneswar: A fire broke out at Jharsuguda railway station in Odisha Tuesday morning due to the breakdown of an overhead equipment, officials said. Train services on the route were briefly disrupted owing to the blaze, they said, adding that no one was injured in the...

Dhenkanal: Panic has gripped the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya (OAV) at Biswanathpur in Gondia block of Dhenkanal district following reports that more than 15 students have been affected by jaundice over the past few days, parents and guardians alleged. This comes close on the heels of...

Patnagarh: Normal life came to a standstill in Patnagarh town of Bolangir district Monday as residents observed a 12-hour shutdown demanding the posting of doctors for emergency treatment at the old Sub-Divisional Hospital located within the town. The shutdown, observed from 6am to 6pm, led...

Bhanjanagar: College students will join forest officials in the annual bird census to be conducted across Odisha, including the Ghumusar North forest division at Bhanjanagar, from January 18. As part of the preparations, a training camp was organised Monday at the Lalsingh Nursery campus in...

Bhandaripokhari: Bhadrak district police Monday arrested four persons, including the main accused, for running an illegal SIM card racket that supplied unauthorised connections to interstate cybercriminals. The arrested accused were identified as the prime accused Dilip Sahu, 30, of Kulana village; Ramesh Chandra Parida alias...

Rourkela: Odisha Police Monday said they busted an organised cybercrime syndicate and arrested seven members of the gang allegedly involved in large-scale money laundering and fraud using mule bank accounts. Acting on intelligence inputs, an operation was launched, leading to the arrest of the seven...

Berhampur: Two class 10 students and an employee of a government-aided school in Odisha's Ganjam district sustained injuries when a group of outsiders allegedly attacked them on the premises of the institute during the recess Monday, police said. Teachers of the Maa Narayani High School...

Baripada: A special POCSO court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Monday sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a four-year-old girl. POCSO court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak held 20-year-old Bulu Mukhi guilty of raping the minor at a village within Suliapada police station...