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Rourkela: Odisha police Sunday arrested the prime accused and mastermind behind the loot of five tonne of explosives by Maoists from a vehicle near a store quarry in Sundargarh district May 27, an official said. The arrested accused has been identified as George Munda alias...

Bhadrak: A five-month pregnant woman died after being allegedly assaulted by her husband following a domestic altercation in Odisha's Bhadrak district, police said Sunday. The deceased, identified as Monalisa Jena, had been married to Sankarshan Jena for five years. The couple has a three-year-old daughter....

Baripada: Two youths drowned while taking a bath in Palpala River inside Similipal National Park in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Sunday, police said. According to the police, seven friends from Baripada town went to Similipal on the occasion of Raja festival. When four of them went...

Jajpur: Two more persons died in the diarrhoea outbreak in Odisha's Jajpur district, with over 200 people still undergoing treatment, officials said Sunday. With this, seven people have died in the outbreak, which was first reported June 9, Additional District Medical Officer (ADMO) Prakash Chandra...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to experience widespread thunderstorm activity and heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next five days as favourable conditions push the southwest monsoon further into the state, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Sunday. The forecast, valid from June 15 to...

Bhubaneswar: Amid a rising number of diarrhoea cases across multiple districts, Odisha government Sunday issued an alert to all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and directed them to take swift preventive and response measures. The Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Department released an urgent advisory instructing...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Assembly Naveen Patnaik Sunday criticised the BJP-led state government for its “lax approach” in handling the cholera outbreak. Taking to his official X handle, Patnaik wrote, “The state government's light-handedness in...

Bargarh: Residents of Sridham area in Bargarh town woke up to a power outage Saturday morning, only to discover that thieves had targeted their local transformer, draining it of oil and stealing its copper windings. According to power officials, the theft occurred late Friday night....

Kalipada: The Subarnarekha River, flowing along the eastern edge of the Baliapal block in Balasore district, is causing significant distress as its shifting course continues to eat away riverbanks year after year. Large swathes of agricultural land across several panchayats have already been lost to...

Keonjhar: Members of Odisha Non-Gazetted Forest Service Association, Keonjhar branch Saturday evening staged a peaceful protest in front of the Keonjhar division office and gave a memorandum with a six-point charter of demands, including the arrest of villagers who attacked on-duty forest officials Friday. Tension...