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Rourkela: Three wagons of a goods train jumped the tracks near Rourkela railway station in Sundargarh district Wednesday, officials said. No casualties have been reported so far, they said. After jumping the tracks the three wagons moved close to houses of people near the railway...

Malkangiri: The anti-corruption vigilance sleuths Wednesday seized around Rs 1.5 crore in cash from the house of an Odisha government officer in Malkangiri district during a raid, officials said. The vigilance raided the house of deputy director and PD of watershed, Malkangiri, Santanu Mohapatra, for...

Berhampur: The Berhampur Municipal Corporation’s (BeMC) proposed greywater management project to treat wastewater of the city before releasing it into reservoirs has hit a stonewall after a survey team, deputed by the state government for assessment, left before completing its work. According to reports, the...

Patana: A two-year-old girl from Keonjhar district has stunned everyone with her exceptional memory and intelligence, earning a place in the India Book of Records. Shreyanshi Sahu, a two-year and-two-month-old girl from Turumunga village in Patana block of Keonjhar district, has displayed remarkable cognitive abilities...

Keonjhar: The Fast Track Court (FTC) here Tuesday sentenced Madan Juang, 42, of Guptaganga village under Banshpal block to 20 years in jail and imposed a penalty of Rs 2,000 on him after convicting him of raping a 15-year-old girl in 2021. Madan’s wife Gelai...

Kalimela: A 14-year-old boy, a Class IX student of a government-run residential high school, committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree behind the school premises under this police limits in Mallkangiri district, police said Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rigen Madkami, eldest son...

Chhatrapur: The state government distributed Rs 5.05 crore assistance to 1,452 registered construction workers during a special ceremony held by the district Labour office here Tuesday. Attending the ceremony as the chief guest, Chhatrapur MLA Krushna Chandra Nayak distributed the funds to the labourers. Nayak...

Bhubaneswar: Railway security personnel Tuesday recovered as many as 12 TNT explosive cylinders from a wagon of a goods train at Kantabanji railway station in Bolangir, police said. The incident sparked security concerns, with top officials of the GRP and RPF rushing to the spot....

Berhampur (Odisha): A court in Odisha's Ganjam district Tuesday sentenced a 38-year-old woman to life imprisonment for killing her minor son by pushing him into a pond in 2023. The district and sessions judge, Ganjam, Rupashree Choudhury awarded life imprisonment to the woman, identified as...

Berhampur (Odisha): BJP MP from Odisha, Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to take steps for speedy implementation of the proposed linkage of the Rushikulya river to Mahanadi river. Panigrahy, the MP from the Berhampur constituency, said the linkage of...