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Brahmapur: A 33-year-old farmer in Odisha's Ganjam district allegedly died by consuming pesticide following the loss of his standing crop in floods that hit the district in the last week of October, officials said Friday. The incident took place at Sadabrata Nuagaon village Thursday. The...

Nabarangpur/Nandahandi: In a shocking incident, miscreants allegedly dug up the grave of a 27-year-old woman, severed her head and took it away after performing rituals and sacrificing two chickens at a burial ground in Narsinghguda village under Nandahandi block in Nabarangpur district. The incident has...

By HARSHABARDHAN BEHERA/ SUBHASISH ROUT, OP Jajpur/Kalinganagar: A severe shortage of classrooms, dilapidated buildings and other infrastructure gaps have disrupted teaching at Panchayat High School in Salijanga under Danagadi block in Jajpur district’s Kalinganagar industrial area. The school has 197 students in Classes XI and...

Pottangi: Andhra Pradesh has secured votes from more than 1,100 residents of villages in Kotia under Pottangi block of Koraput district in its panchayat elections, despite strong opposition from the Koraput district administration and political parties in Odisha. Despite the deployment of Odisha Police along...

By NILADRI BIHARI DANDPAT, OP Baripada: A new species of scorpion has been discovered in the biodiversity-rich Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district, marking the first recorded presence of the Liocheles genus in Odisha. Named ‘Liocheles Similipalensis ’, the species was discovered through a...

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court has asked the Odisha government and the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to explore the feasibility of holding a special examination for candidates who were genuinely prevented from appearing in the Odisha Civil Services (OCS) Main Examination, 2025, due to...

Bhubaneswar/Phulbani: Five more bodies were recovered from a landslide-affected hilltop village in Odisha's Ganjam district Thursday, taking the toll there to seven, while six more people are still missing, an official said. These people were victims of Cyclone Arnab that hit the state October 28....

Baripada: The Odisha Forest Department has arrested a man after recovering wild animal body parts, including elephant tusks and deer antlers, from his house in Mayurbhanj district, officials said Thursday. The house owner, who was arrested, has been identified as Ishwar Bindhani of Bishol village...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday accused BJP MLA Saroj Padhi of disrupting flood relief distribution and threatening to kill a government official on duty, demanding an impartial investigation and strict legal action against the legislator if found guilty. Addressing a press conference at...

Bhubaneswar/Phulbani: Two more bodies were recovered from a landslide-affected hilltop village in Odisha's Ganjam district Thursday, taking the toll there to four while nine more people are still missing, an official said. The two decomposed bodies were found during the multi-agency search and rescue operation...