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Balasore: In a moment of pride for the state, Professor Nilamadhab Kar, an eminent psychiatrist serving with the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, has been named among the top 2 per cent of scientists in the world by Elsevier and...

Jaleswar: A Miscreant allegedly threatened two junior mining officers of dire consequences after they raided an illegal sand quarry at Kuanrpur ghat under this tehsil in Balasore district Thursday. Illegal sand smuggling continues at the ghat despite repeated complaints to the authorities, sources said. The...

Nuapada: The home voting process for the Nuapada Assembly by-election began Thursday. A total of 15 polling teams have been deployed for the exercise. Each team comprises two polling officers, one micro observer, one security personnel and one videographer. Altogether, 251 voters, including those aged...

Paikamal: A farmer was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live electric cable while spraying pesticide on his farmland at Bukuramunda village under this block in Bargarh district Thursday. The deceased was identified as Rabi Sahu, 34, in the village. According to sources, Sahu...

Chhatrapur: Panic gripped villages adjoining Chhatrapur after residents reported spotting pugmarks in a paddy field that they believe may belong to a tiger. Villagers in Laxmipur panchayat under Chhatrapur block said they were returning from a temple when they noticed the pugmarks along a route...

Berhampur: Ninety-four aspirants for sub-inspector jobs arrested by police for their alleged involvement in cheating, forgery and fraud in examination were Thursday released from jail here. A special vigilance court here Wednesday granted conditional bail to 114 aspirants who were arrested by police October 1...

Sambalpur: A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Oil India Ltd here for establishing a compressed bio-gas (CBG) plant in the western Odisha town. The agreement is an important step to produce energy from waste coming out of homes,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has begun a comprehensive survey to assess the extent of damage caused by heavy rainfall and landslides triggered by Cyclone ‘Montha’ across several districts of the state, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said Thursday. Speaking to mediapersons, Pujari said that...

Phulbani: A court in Odisha's Kandhamal district has sentenced five persons to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting them of dacoity and gangrape of a minor girl at gunpoint 16 months ago. Fast-track court judge Kailash Chandra Swain of Phulbani also imposed a fine...

Sonepur: With barely a month-and-a-half left for the 2025–26 Kharif paddy procurement to begin in Subarnapur district, concerns have been raised over the sluggish lifting of rice from mills under the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2024–25. As of Monday, only 59.39% of custom-milled rice (CMR)...