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Keonjhar:  Three people were killed, and two others suffered critical injuries in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a scooter in Odisha's Keonjhar district, police said Saturday. The accident happened on Chandapasi-Pandapada Road near Sarupata Friday evening. The deceased were identified as Dushasana Barik...

Baripada: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change directed the Odisha Additional Chief Secretary to investigate allegations of illegal construction and tree-felling in the eco-sensitive foothills of Similipal National Park in Mayurbhanj district. The directive was issued through a letter dated 1 December...

Chhatrapur: Senior Citizen forum led by former MLA Ashok Kumar Choudhury and Retd All India Bank Federations' Secretary Profullo Kumar Patnaik presented a letter to the Ganjam Collector V Keerthi Vasan urging to expedite the development of the district headquarters town. As per the letter,...

Dhenkanal/Rasol: Three male students from the Chilataila Residential Ashram School hostel under Rasol police limits in Hindol block of Dhenkanal district have been reported missing since December 10, according to a complaint filed with police. The missing students have been identified as Swadhin Murmu (7),...

Daringbadi: Residents of Daringbadi in Kandhamal district are questioning the accuracy of the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) temperature gauge after the hill town reported visible frost for two consecutive days despite official readings of 7°C Thursday and 6.5°C Friday. Locals said frost blanketed open fields,...

Rourkela: Police Friday arrested a man and his brother-in-law for allegedly impersonating Odisha vigilance officials and extorting money from government officers by threatening them with dire consequences, an official said. The accused have been identified as Ganesh Prasad Nanda and his brother-in-law Pradeep Kumar Panda,...

Rourkela: A 61-year-old man was arrested after a leopard was allegedly poisoned to death in Odisha's Sundargarh district, officials said Friday. The female leopard, aged about 4, died near Kusumdihi village in the Tamra range of the Bonai forest division after eating cattle meat, which...

Bhubaneswar/Malkangiri: The delegation of ministers, led by Odisha Deputy Chief Minister K.V. Singh Deo, Friday submitted its report on the ground situation in violence-hit Malkangiri district, where the recovery of a tribal woman's headless body had enraged local tribal residents, who subsequently set fire to...

Bhubaneswar: An intense cold wave swept several parts of Odisha as the state recorded the season's lowest temperature of 3.1 degrees Celsius at G Udayagiri, a hill station in Kandhamal district, the IMD said Friday. The chill has severely affected normal life as minimum temperature...

Baripada: Five notorious poachers have been arrested from Similipal National Park after forest officials used advanced scientific tools, including the Similipal Wildlife Intelligence Network, to track them down. The arrested men have been identified as Veerasingh Ho (33), Charan Ho (43), Chhale Ho (23), Sagar...