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Paralakhemundi: Forested and tribal-dominated Gajapati district has increasingly become a safe haven for illegal cannabis cultivation, with authorities reporting seizures worth Rs 314 crore in the past year. According to officials, dense forest areas and remote hilly terrains have enabled organised rackets to expand cannabis...

Sonepur: Twelve rare ancient ‘Ashtadhatu’ idols stolen from Gopaljee Temple in Subarnapur 42 years ago and kept in CBI storehouse have been handed over to the district administration Wednesday. After a brief ritual inside the Bhubaneswar court premises in the evening, officials began transporting the...

Hatadihi: Orissa High Court has directed police not to arrest the accused in a case involving an attack on Kendrapara Sadar police personnel in Keonjhar district and the forcible release of an accused from police custody. According to court records, the accused had filed five...

Angul: A leopard, which was trapped in a snare allegedly laid by poachers, succumbed to injuries during treatment in Odisha's Angul district, an official said on Wednesday. Locals had first spotted the leopard trapped near the Kusumchankragarh reserve forest area in the Angul division on...

Malkangiri: Odisha government Wednesday extended the suspension of internet services for another 24 hours in violence-hit Malkangiri district, while the missing severed head of a tribal woman was recovered from a river bank, police said. The severed head of 51-year-old Lake Podiami of Rakhelguda village...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Wednesday constituted an all-party high-level committee for resolution of the Mahanadi water dispute with neighbouring Chhattisgarh, an official said. The eight-member committee will be headed by Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo, and will have one member each from Opposition BJD and...

Malkangiri: Police Wednesday recovered the severed head of a tribal woman nearly 40 kilometres from the spot where her headless body was found last week. The discovery came amid days of tension between two neighbouring villages in Malkangiri. Police said the head was found near...

Kashinagar: In a shocking incident, a Class-IX student at Varanasi Government High School in Kashinagar of Gajapati district allegedly attempted suicide by consuming rodent poison in her classroom Tuesday, triggering shockwaves in the area. The girl, who hails from a nearby village and studying in...

Sonepur: Twelve rare and ancient idols stolen 42 years ago from the Gopaljee temple in Sonepur town are finally expected to return to the shrine. The hope was revived Monday after the Khurda ADJ-3 Court in Bhubaneswar delivered its judgment in the case. Judge Himanshu...

Jharsuguda: The Jharsuguda district administration Tuesday facilitated the safe reunion of Vijayabai Yadav, a destitute woman, with her family in Maharashtra, nearly three years after she was rescued in a distressed condition by the district police. According to officials, Yadav had been living at a...