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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,...

Balasore: A 43-year-old man from Assam died when he fell from a running train in Odisha's Balasore district, police said Monday. The deceased was identified as Niran Biswas of Chintagaon village in Assam's Udalguri district, they said. The incident happened near Sabira rail station Sunday...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday informed the Assembly that a total of 44 prisoners have escaped from different jails of the state during the last five years. A total of 33 were under-trial prisoners (UTPs) and 11 convicts have escaped from different...