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Rayagada: All the nine hundis (donation boxes) of Maa Majhighariani temple, the presiding deity of this district, were opened Monday and counted in the presence of a magistrate and police officials, temple authorities said. During the counting, cash amounting to Rs 1,05,52,845, along with 30...

Chhatrapur: A local court Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend in the 2021 Subhasmita case. Additional District Judicial Magistrate (ADJM) Pradeep Kumar Samal convicted Krushna Chandra Sahu for burning his girlfriend, Subhasmita Khadanga, alive inside an abandoned house...

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: The 6-day Business Accelerator Program for SC-ST entrepreneurs in collaboration with the National SC-ST Hub, Ministry of MSME, GOI, kicked off at IIM Sambalpur Monday. It will continue till 24th January. The objective of this programme is to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem by building...

Kujang: Even as the government has imposed curbs on groundwater extraction to conserve the fast-depleting resource, allegations have surfaced that JSW is illegally drawing large quantities of groundwater at its under-construction steel plant in the Dhinkia-Charidesh area of Ersama block in Jagatsinghpur district. Residents of...

Angul: A joint team of the Special Squad and Angul Town police raided a four-storied building in Hatishala pada area of the town and seized 30 gram of brown sugar and around Rs 26 lakh from the house Monday. Police detained Manas Nayak and Rajesh...

Berhampur: At least 17 people, including eight children and three women, were injured after an auto-rickshaw fell nearly 10 feet down a slope in Odisha's Gajapati district Monday, police said. The accident occurred near Jarau ghat under the Mohana police limits, when the vehicle hit...

Kendrapara: Bhitarkanika National Park, a designated Ramsar wetland site in Odisha's Kendrapara district, has a total of 1,858 estuarine crocodiles according to the latest census survey, a senior Forest department official said Monday. The official said there has been an increase of 32 crocodiles in...

Bhadrak: A newborn girl was found abandoned in a washroom at Bhadrak District Headquarter Hospital (DHH), and was later declared dead, officials said Monday. The incident took place in the gynaecology ward of the Bhadrak District Headquarter Hospital, where an unidentified woman was suspected of...

Barbil: Armed miscreants looted gold jewellery worth an estimated Rs 7.5 crore and cash of about Rs 4.34 lakh from the Bank of Maharashtra’s Barbil branch in Keonjhar district Monday afternoon, police said. The robbery took place at the branch located barely 200 meters from...

Baripada: Opium plantation was detected inside Similipal National Park in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district and poppy plants worth Rs 1.91 crore were destroyed, police said Monday. A joint team of police, excise and forest departments detected two patches of illegal poppy plantation on a total of...