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Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has established 46 new civil judge courts in different parts of the state, officials said Friday. Five courts have been set up in Balasore district, while four such courts were established in Sambalpur, Mayurbhanj and Sundargarh districts, three in Jajpur, Kendrapara, Kandhamal...

Rourkela: Two miscreants, who were allegedly fleeing after looting an eatery, were injured in a gunfight with the police in Odisha's Rourkela, an officer said Friday. They were hospitalised and stated to be out of danger. The incident took place when four miscreants were fleeing...

Bhadrak: Odisha's Bhadrak district administration Friday announced a Rs 6 lakh compensation for the next of kin of a person who died after being stuck inside an old elevator in Bhadrak. While announcing the ex gratia, district collector Dillip Routrai directed the Road and Building...

Baripada: A POCSO court here in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Friday sentenced one person to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 16-year-old girl in 2017. The special court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict Mangal Soren...

Kendrapara/Rajnagar: Over 8 million endangered Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings have emerged from their eggs at the mass nesting sites of Nasi-2 in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, marking the culmination of the annual nesting season of the marine species. Sudarshan Gopinath Yadav, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO)...

Jajpur: A day after a six-year-old boy went missing, his body was recovered from an abandoned stone quarry in Jajpur district Thursday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Shivu Rout, son of Bauribandhu Rout of Chargotha village under Jenapur police limits, they said....

Rourkela: A 62-yearold man was allegedly beaten to death by his son Thursday at IDL Gopabandhunagar area under Tangarpali police limits in Rourkela after he refused to give Rs 200, police said. The deceased, identified as Gagan Bihari Malla, was attacked inside his betel shop....

Dhenkanal: A man was injured in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Odisha's Dhenkanal district Thursday, police said. The injured person has been identified as Debasish Behera alias Handa of village Godisahi Ajatinagar under the Kamakhyanagar police station area. The encounter took place...

Berhampur: A team of doctors in government-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur, removed an eight-centimetre-long broken piece of knife from the lungs of a 24-year-old man, an official said Thursday. The broken knife piece was in the body of the man for the last...

Bhadrak: A 54-year-old woman patient died of suspected suffocation Thursday as the elevator in which she was being shifted to a ward in Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital here developed a technical snag and got stranded for some time, officials said. Hospital sources said that the...