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Baripada: Acting on a tip-off, forest officials of Podadiha and Kaptipada police arrested five poachers who had entered the forest for hunting. The incident took place in the Podadiha range of the Similipal core area, where the group was caught on an AI camera while...

Bhubaneswar/Nayagarh: Odisha observed 'Chhena Poda Dibasa' Saturday, marking the significance of state’s iconic sweet. Chhenapoda is a sweet dish made from cheese (chhena), sugar, cardamom and cashew nuts. Since 2022, the state has been observing ‘Chhenapoda Dibasa’ April 11, marking the birth anniversary of Sudarshan...

Dhenkanal: An ambulance attendant was killed, and the driver critically injured after a private ambulance rammed into a truck on National Highway 55 near Haladiabahal under Motanga police limits in Dhenkanal district Saturday morning. According to reports, ambulance was returning to Angul after dropping a...

Koraput: An OSRTC bus met with an accident at Sunki ghat under Pottangi block in Koraput district, leaving one person dead and several others injured. The Volvo bus (OD02DE5446) was travelling from Bhawanipatna to Visakhapatnam when the accident occurred around 2 a.m. near Panasamanagudi village,...

Bhubaneswar: Temperatures have again been climbing across Odisha after a brief spell of rain and thunderstorms, with hot and humid conditions returning to the state. The regional meteorological centre has forecast six days of uncomfortable weather from 11 April to 16, with temperatures likely to...

Tihidi: More than 70,000 quintals of paddy lie heaped in the open outside mandis across Tihidi block in Bhadrak district, with continuous rain soaking the stocks and even leading to sprouting, as delayed lifting by millers leaves farmers without payments and authorities struggling to prevent...

Bantala: A woman and her eight-year-old daughter were killed in an elephant attack while returning home after watching a Danda Nacha performance late Thursday night in Angul district. The father narrowly escaped. The incident occurred near an orchard at the entrance of Madhupur village under...

Baliapal: Thousands of fisherfolk along Odisha’s coastal belt are set to face a livelihood crisis as a two-month ban on sea fishing begins April 15. Once the ban comes into force, families dependent on daily catches will face a sudden loss of income with no...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has asked all district collectors to complete reservation of seats for SC, ST, OBC and women categories for various posts in the panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) for the upcoming rural poll, officials said Friday. In a recent letter to the collectors, Panchayati...

Angul: A special POCSO court in Angul has convicted 40-year-old Babula Jena in connection with the rape and murder of a minor girl. The verdict was delivered by the additional district judge-cum-special court under the POCSO Act, nearly one year after the accused’s arrest. The...