State

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Tuesday stepped up preparedness and deployed 33 Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams in vulnerable districts as a depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a deep depression and trigger heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in several...

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rain due to a depression lashed coastal and southern Odisha Tuesday, forcing the government to close schools, cancel employees' leaves and deploy teams in vulnerable areas to prepare for a possible calamity. With the weather department forecasting that the inclement weather would continue,...

Chhatrapur: Ganjam district administration has reportedly declared holidays for all anganwadi centres and schools in the district until September 24, in view of the extremely heavy rainfall expected under the influence of an impending deep depression over the Bay of Bengal. Heavy rainfall has already...

By Banchhanidhi Dey, OP Baleshwar: Students at a government high school in Baleshwar district are attending classes in a dilapidated brick-and-asbestos structure, as the school grapples with a shortage of classrooms and other infrastructure gaps, parents and local residents said. The Government Nodal High School,...

Mahakalapada: More than 30 tribal fishing families from villages in Mahakalapada block of Kendrapada district are living in makeshift polythene shelters on small islands within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. With the possibility of a cyclone forming over Bay of Bengal, concerns have been raised over...

Bhabanipatana: A Class IX student of Vikas Residential School in Bhabanipatana has built a two-seat solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) using scrap materials salvaged from a garage. Combining lessons in energy, engineering and hands-on learning, Swaraj Satapathy completed the vehicle in about three months and named...

G Udayagiri: The Kalinga Ghat stretch on National Highway 157 along the Kandhamal-Ganjam border will remain closed for two days, September 23 and 24, in view of the possibility of a cyclone bringing heavy to very heavy rain and strong winds, thereby increasing risk of...

Dhamnagar: Dhamnagar Notified Area Council (NAC) Executive Officer Santosh Kumar Nayak was suspended over allegations of misuse of Form-7 and onetime passwords (OTPs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Nayak was suspended Monday. The suspension was ordered by the Additional Chief...

Baisinga: Police have detained a 13-year-old boy after he allegedly took a six-year-old girl, a relative, into a nearby forest and sexually assaulted her in Baisinga police station area of Mayurbhanj district. According to the complaint, the girl was playing outside her house Sunday evening...

Brahmapur:  Two 17-year-old boys were detained in Odisha's Ganjam district for allegedly murdering a youth following an altercation over a request for matchsticks to light a cigarette, police said Monday. Ayushman Tripathy alias Suman, 18, was allegedly assaulted by the two boys September 14 after...