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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)...

Bhubaneswar/Bargarh: Authorities in Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Bargarh district have decided to rope in school and college students in the upcoming All India Tiger Estimation (AITE)-2025-26. With the objective and theme of ‘conserve today for a wilder tomorrow’, the forest department has decided to engage...

Cuttack/Bhubaneswar: A three-day special enforcement drive was conducted across Odisha under the direction of Commerce and Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhushan Jena, targeting four major motor vehicle rule violations. During the drive, 4,476 e-challans were issued under the Motor Vehicles Act — including 344 for carrying...

Bolangir: Decomposed body of an unidentified woman was recovered by the police in a village in Odisha's Bolangir district Wednesday, an official said. The middle-aged woman's body was found in a forest area near Gaelpita village under the Deogaon police limits, he said. “We have...